Alienware 17

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 70% Battleship	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	3.92% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	78.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

High background CPU (28%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware 17 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 068R5X
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180129
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 29 '18 at 22:53
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	28%

PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4700MQ-$209 69,603 User benchmarks, average bench 59% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.4 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	77.8% Very good	Memory 90.1 1-Core 99.8 2-Core 191 74% 127 Pts	4-Core 355 8-Core 507 54% 431 Pts	64-Core 509 32% 509 Pts
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4600 (Mobile 1.15 GHz) FAQ - How to force Optimus or Switchable discrete GPUs? Dell(1028 05AA) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4835 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	3.92% Terrible	Lighting 3.87 Reflection 18.4 Parallax 6.34 3% 9.54 fps	MRender 9.57 Gravity 2.33 Splatting 7.7 5% 6.53 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 3.92% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 500GB 2,934 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 331GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 108 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 69 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 47 42 53 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 27 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1881928175	78.5% Very good	Read 521 Write 289 Mixed 365 86% 392 MB/s	4K Read 31.5 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 19.3 127% 51.5 MB/s	DQ Read 32.2 DQ Write 106 DQ Mixed 69.5 53% 69.1 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 118%
WD Black 2.5" 750GB (2013)-$62 16,938 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 602GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 168 1991 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 604 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 577 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 511 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 226 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 76 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7937 (C2) HDA temperature 110 93 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 476 (F1) Unknown 200 200 6228047757 (F2) Unknown 200 200 7005392079 (FE) Unknown 198 198 2	63.2% Good	Read 97.5 Write 122 Mixed 103 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.22 97% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Nanya NT4GC64C88B1NS-DI 4x4GB 120 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	57.1% Above average	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 20.8 MC Mixed 17 56% 19.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 18.2 SC Mixed 19.2 49% 17.2 GB/s	Latency 67.1 60% 67.1 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 57.1% Great: 57%

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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 7%

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Desktop 55%

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Workstation 7%

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System: Alienware 17

CPU
Core i7-4700MQIntel $209Bench 59%, 69,603 samples	454x
Core i7-4710MQIntel $48Bench 60%, 15,557 samples	308x
Core i7-4910MQIntel $110Bench 67%, 6,703 samples	124x

GPU
HD 4600 (Mobile 1.15 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 258,091 samples	628x
GTX 770MNvidiaBench 16%, 6,357 samples	119x
GTX 880MNvidiaBench 28%, 2,147 samples	99x

SSD
DMT-80M6M-11 mSATA 80GBLiteonitBench 67%, 888 samples	68x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $75Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	36x

RAM
HMT451S6AFR8A-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 53%, 1,671 samples	113x
8KTF51264HZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 53%, 1,119 samples	80x
M471B5173QH0-YK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 53%, 1,523 samples	64x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $209

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16