Alienware M17xR4

Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 74.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	20.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	17% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
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	Windows 11 is the most recent version of Windows.

Run History

22 months ago, 22 months ago.

System	Alienware M17xR4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware M17xR4
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 11
BIOS Date	20180528
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 05 '22 at 15:47
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	SYC-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3740QM-$220 14,369 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	74.4% Very good	Memory 87.7 1-Core 92.9 2-Core 186 71% 122 Pts	4-Core 332 8-Core 471 50% 401 Pts	64-Core 466 29% 466 Pts
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 7970M 939 User benchmarks, average bench 21% Dell(1028 057B) 2GB Driver: 21.5.2 Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	20.7% Poor	Lighting 26.1 Reflection 29.9 Parallax 35.7 21% 30.6 fps	MRender 25.2 Gravity 26.9 Splatting 21.2 20% 24.4 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 20.7% Great: 24%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
King SHARE E20012 125GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 45GB free (System drive) Firmware: V100 SusWrite @10s intervals: 50 61 71 72 77 74 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	17% Very poor	Read 152 Write 101 Mixed 101 SusWrite 67.3 24% 105 MB/s	4K Read 7.8 4K Write 6.1 4K Mixed 5.7 22% 6.53 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 17% Great: 17%
WD Blue 2.5" 1TB (2011)-$75 18,569 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 482GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 84 83 87 87 86 87 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	41% Average	Read 56.9 Write 57.1 Mixed 38 SusWrite 85.5 44% 59.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.6 126% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 41% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5428-049.A00LF Hynix HMT351S6EFR8A-PB 99U5428-049.A00LF Hynix HMT351S6EFR8A-PB 16GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	55.3% Above average	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 19.4 MC Mixed 16.7 54% 18.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 18.3 50% 17.5 GB/s	Latency 69.8 57% 69.8 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 55.3% Great: 56%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 58%

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Workstation 7%

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System: Alienware M17xR4

CPU
Core i7-3630QMIntel $420Bench 61%, 65,927 samples	242x
Core i7-3610QMIntel $300Bench 62%, 38,575 samples	139x
Core i7-3740QMIntel $220Bench 64%, 14,369 samples	77x

GPU
HD 4000 (Mobile 1.25 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 409,110 samples	355x
GTX 660MNvidiaBench 7%, 7,381 samples	83x
GTX 680MNvidiaBench 19%, 1,365 samples	76x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	25x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	21x
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	16x

RAM
NT4GC64B8HG0NS-DI 4x4GBNanyaBench 52%, 422 samples	40x
HMT351S6CFR8C-PB 2x4GBHynixBench 50%, 25,458 samples	19x
NT4GC64B8HG0NS-DI 2x4GBNanyaBench 51%, 5,366 samples	19x

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Value: 46% - Average

Total price: $520

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	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