Alienware 17 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (94th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 6 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 79.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.82% 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	91.7% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware 17 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 17 R2
Memory	7.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170728
Uptime	1.8 Days
Run Date	Jan 12 '18 at 12:36
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing way above expectations (94^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 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	79.7% Very good	Memory 90.5 1-Core 109 2-Core 214 79% 138 Pts	4-Core 380 8-Core 500 56% 440 Pts	64-Core 528 33% 528 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 79.7% 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. 20.19.15.4835 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	6.82% Terrible	Lighting 6.93 Reflection 25.2 Parallax 13.8 6% 15.3 fps	MRender 11.5 Gravity 4.67 Splatting 15.4 9% 10.5 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 6.82% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Liteonit L8T-256L9G-11 M.2 2280 256GB 846 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 26GB free (System drive) Firmware: H88110C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 259 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 954 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 31057 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1120 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 106035 (F2) Unknown 100 100 161215	91.7% Outstanding	Read 480 Write 421 Mixed 448 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 55.2 4K Mixed 31.8 112% 38.2 MB/s	DQ Read 327 DQ Write 224 DQ Mixed 79.3 112% 210 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 94%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 931GB free Firmware: 2BA30003 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 92 91 2586 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1662 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1313 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 974 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 2613 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 77126 (C2) HDA temperature 64 61 167504642075 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 1266 (F1) Unknown 97 94 5191935 (F2) Unknown 100 94 1020780 (FE) Unknown 100 100 28	55.3% Above average	Read 96.4 Write 96.2 Mixed 106 75% 99.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.28 89% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 55.3% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 2x8GB 34,976 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	60.7% Good	MC Read 30.2 MC Write 18.3 MC Mixed 16.8 62% 21.8 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 17.8 SC Mixed 15.9 43% 15.1 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 59%

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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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Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
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