Alienware M17xR4

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 70.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	12.3% 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	49.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 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.

System	Alienware M17xR4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware M17xR4
Memory	8.9 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130913
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 08 '18 at 15:35
Run Duration	154 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3630QM-$420 65,927 User benchmarks, average bench 61% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	70.1% Very good	Memory 87.2 1-Core 91 2-Core 174 69% 117 Pts	4-Core 287 8-Core 448 45% 367 Pts	64-Core 450 28% 450 Pts
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 675M 994 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Dell(1028 0580) 2GB CLim: 620 MHz, MLim: 750 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 372.70 Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	12.3% Very poor	Lighting 14 Reflection 11.7 Parallax 8.97 11% 11.5 fps	MRender 19.5 Gravity 16 Splatting 16.6 14% 17.4 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 12.3% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5242 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2114 (B1) Unknown 92 92 80 (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 53 47 47 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 60 (F1) Unknown 99 99 24485582717	49.1% Average	Read 359 Write 60.1 Mixed 77.5 36% 166 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 44.6 4K Mixed 10.9 75% 26.7 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 61.5 DQ Mixed 30.3 70% 153 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 85%
Liteonit LMT-64M3M mSATA 64GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 43GB free Firmware: VXDC Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2341 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 21919 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 672 (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 17320 (F2) Unknown 100 100 16510	51.1% Above average	Read 266 Write 166 Mixed 207 47% 213 MB/s	4K Read 20.7 4K Write 37.3 4K Mixed 18.7 75% 25.6 MB/s	DQ Read 182 DQ Write 157 DQ Mixed 62.1 76% 134 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 51%
WD Black 2.5" 500GB (2011)-$50 12,013 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 161GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 185 168 1708 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5749 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2790 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2336 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 864 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 512 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 191 191 28617 (C2) HDA temperature 100 83 47 (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 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 379 (F1) Unknown 200 200 3125810198 (F2) Unknown 200 200 2626362087 (FE) Unknown 199 199 1	58.5% Above average	Read 101 Write 103 Mixed 104 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.21 84% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT325S6CFR8C-PB HMT351S6CFR8C-PB HMT325S6CFR8C-PB HMT351S6CFR8C-PB 12GB 19 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 2048, 4096, 2048, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	56% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 20 MC Mixed 17.5 55% 19.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 16.6 SC Mixed 17.7 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 70.3 57% 70.3 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 56% Great: 56%

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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	78x

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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Total price: $520

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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 $40	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