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Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 69.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	14.3% 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	101% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

System	Alienware 15 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0DVV6W
Memory	9.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180108
Uptime	2.6 Days
Run Date	Jul 31 '18 at 09:08
Run Duration	128 Seconds
Run User	SYC-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 320,434 User benchmarks, average bench 59% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.6% Good	Memory 78.2 1-Core 89.2 2-Core 173 66% 114 Pts	4-Core 329 8-Core 521 52% 425 Pts	64-Core 516 32% 516 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 69.6% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970M 21,995 User benchmarks, average bench 31% Dell(1028 0708) 3GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 24.21.13.9836 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	14.3% Very poor	Lighting 10 Reflection 11.5 Parallax 33.7 8% 18.4 fps	MRender 28.2 Gravity 33.8 Splatting 33.6 26% 31.9 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 14.3% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 13,766 User benchmarks, average bench 120% 110GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXV7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 288 284 284 280 278 275 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	101% Outstanding	Read 752 Write 294 Mixed 306 SusWrite 282 90% 409 MB/s	4K Read 17.1 4K Write 67.6 4K Mixed 23.9 92% 36.2 MB/s	DQ Read 841 DQ Write 299 DQ Mixed 410 345% 517 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 147%
Seagate ST1000LM044 HN-M101SAD 1TB 3,391 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 160GB free Firmware: 2BD10001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 87 83 84 84 84 85 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	46% Average	Read 75.5 Write 69 Mixed 54 SusWrite 84.5 52% 70.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 1 181% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 46% Great: 78%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GB 55,289 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	67% Good	MC Read 24.5 MC Write 26.2 MC Mixed 21.1 68% 23.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 25 SC Mixed 20.1 57% 19.9 GB/s	Latency 83.8 48% 83.8 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 67% Great: 76%

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System: Alienware 15 R2

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	632x
Core i7-6820HKIntelBench 69%, 20,362 samples	123x
Core i5-6300HQIntelBench 54%, 41,531 samples	120x

GPU
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	485x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	172x
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 41%, 14,160 samples	95x

SSD
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	213x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 140%, 7,011 samples	34x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	24x

RAM
HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 55,289 samples	235x
HMA451S6AFR8N-TF 2x4GBHynixBench 66%, 17,761 samples	113x
16ATF1G64HZ-2G1A2 2x8GBMicronBench 69%, 6,021 samples	76x

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Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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