Alienware 17 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	7.71% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	57.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (68%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware 17 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 17 R2
Memory	10.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150724
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Feb 04 '18 at 17:51
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	68%

PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4980HQ 2,147 User benchmarks, average bench 69% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	71.6% Very good	Memory 82.3 1-Core 108 2-Core 196 74% 129 Pts	4-Core 336 8-Core 436 49% 386 Pts	64-Core 520 32% 520 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel Iris Pro HD 5200 (V2 Mobile 1.2 GHz) FAQ - How to force Optimus or Switchable discrete GPUs? Dell(1028 0688) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4463 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.71% Terrible	Lighting 8.1 Reflection 52.6 Parallax 12.9 7% 24.5 fps	MRender 13.5 Gravity 5.2 Splatting 16 10% 11.6 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 7.71% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM851 M.2 2280 512GB 485 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 333GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT25D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1362 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 93 93 74 (B2) Unknown 100 1 0 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B4) Unknown 99 100 8816 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22963918674 (F2) Unknown 99 99 46782414461	57.3% Above average	Read 506 Write 24.6 Mixed 154 49% 228 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 59.4 4K Mixed 12.5 89% 33.1 MB/s	DQ Read 358 DQ Write 95.2 DQ Mixed 36.5 76% 163 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 84%
Toshiba MQ01ABD100 1TB-$58 322,803 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 931GB free Firmware: AX0P2D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1783 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 10712 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1361 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 7 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 40 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 104828 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 223338561564 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 67622437 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 101995573 (F0) Head flying hours 83 83 7037 (F1) Unknown 100 100 33507090124 (F2) Unknown 100 100 60005086622 (FE) Unknown 100 100 21	58.8% Above average	Read 103 Write 102 Mixed 102 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.22 65% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 58.8% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471B1G73EB0-YK0 2x8GB 10,651 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	73.2% Very good	MC Read 38.8 MC Write 19.9 MC Mixed 22.1 77% 26.9 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 20.5 SC Mixed 19.9 52% 18.1 GB/s	Latency 76.4 52% 76.4 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 60%

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Gaming 7%

Tree trunk

Desktop 55%

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Workstation 7%

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System: Alienware 17 R2

CPU
Core i7-4710HQIntelBench 58%, 69,536 samples	205x
Core i7-4720HQIntelBench 58%, 80,960 samples	199x
Core i7-4980HQIntelBench 69%, 2,147 samples	99x

GPU
HD 4600 (Mobile 1.15 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 258,091 samples	251x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	87x
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 41%, 14,160 samples	80x

SSD
PM851 M.2 2280 128GBSamsungBench 55%, 1,404 samples	35x
L8T-128L9G-11 M.2 2280 128GBLiteonitBench 75%, 553 samples	21x
L8T-256L9G-11 M.2 2280 256GBLiteonitBench 80%, 846 samples	20x

RAM
HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 52%, 34,976 samples	130x
M471B1G73EB0-YK0 2x8GBSamsungBench 52%, 10,651 samples	61x
KN2M64-ETB 2x8GBKingstonBench 51%, 2,986 samples	32x

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