Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 40% Jet ski	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 43.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	5.75% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware Alienware M17 (all builds)
Motherboard	alienware alienware
Memory	1.9 GB free of 4 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20090304
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 14 '18 at 21:33
Run Duration	99 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	40%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Quad Q9000-$121 869 User benchmarks, average bench 42% U2E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2 GHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	43.7% Average	Memory 69.1 1-Core 28.8 2-Core 57.1 36% 51.7 Pts	4-Core 110 8-Core 105 14% 107 Pts	64-Core 113 7% 113 Pts
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 43.7% Great: 46%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870-X2 (Crossfire Disabled) 142 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Device(161F 207A) 512MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.1100 Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	5.75% Terrible	Lighting 6.63 Reflection 10.1 Parallax 1.56 5% 6.09 fps	MRender 6.43 Gravity 3.6 Splatting 11.8 6% 7.28 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.75% Great: 6%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Volume0 640GB 131 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 548GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	67.9% Good	Read 113 Write 123 Mixed 111 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 2.14 4K Mixed 0.4 102% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 102%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x2GB 446,702 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 2 of 2 slots used 4GB SODIMM DDR2 Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	18.7% Very poor	MC Read 6.8 MC Write 5.2 MC Mixed 5.6 17% 5.87 GB/s	SC Read 5.2 SC Write 5.3 SC Mixed 5.5 15% 5.33 GB/s	Latency 104 39% 104 ns
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 18.7% Great: 44%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 6%

Tree trunk

Desktop 40%

Speed boat

Workstation 6%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core2 Duo P8400Intel $20Bench 37%, 6,904 samples	3x
Core2 Duo P9700IntelBench 40%, 485 samples	1x
Core2 Duo T9600Intel $170Bench 39%, 2,726 samples	1x

GPU
Mobility Radeon HD 3870-X2 (Crossfire Disabled)ATIBench 5%, 142 samples	8x
Mobility Radeon HD 3870ATIBench 5%, 11 samples	1x

SSD
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	1x
SD8TB8U256G1001 256GBSandiskBench 73%, 4,613 samples	1x
320 Series 300GBIntel $289Bench 46%, 2,154 samples	1x

Value: 39% - Below average

Total price: $55

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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