Alienware 17 R4

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 55% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 70.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	91.6% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	164% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware 17 R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 17 R4
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170705
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 07 '17 at 14:44
Run Duration	122 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7820HK 18,903 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.9 GHz, turbo 2.9 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	70.8% Very good	Memory 88.3 1-Core 89.1 2-Core 165 68% 114 Pts	4-Core 292 8-Core 402 44% 347 Pts	64-Core 468 29% 468 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 1,686 User benchmarks, average bench 104% Dell(1028 0777) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	91.6% Outstanding	Lighting 112 Reflection 89.8 Parallax 133 91% 112 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 125 Splatting 105 93% 115 fps
Poor: 81% ↑ This bench: 91.6% Great: 149%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Pc300 NVMe SK hynix 512GB 3,708 User benchmarks, average bench 138% 424GB free (System drive) Firmware: 20005A00 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	164% Outstanding	Read 1,759 Write 772 Mixed 1,071 264% 1,201 MB/s	4K Read 30.7 4K Write 87.6 4K Mixed 14.4 111% 44.2 MB/s	DQ Read 339 DQ Write 309 DQ Mixed 13.9 95% 221 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 164% Great: 172%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 837GB free Firmware: JB0OA3W0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 137 137 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 85 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 61 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 58 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 4178 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 184684707874 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 28 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1211439198 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1744386364 (FE) Unknown 100 100 12	70.9% Very good	Read 128 Write 119 Mixed 127 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.21 75% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown HMA81GS6AFR8N-VK 2x8GB 4,951 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.7% Good	MC Read 25.1 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 21.7 72% 25.1 GB/s	SC Read 12.8 SC Write 23.9 SC Mixed 19.1 53% 18.6 GB/s	Latency 69.3 58% 69.3 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 84%

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Gaming 49%

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Desktop 71%

Battleship

Workstation 41%

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System: Alienware 17 R4

CPU
Core i7-7700HQIntelBench 62%, 473,208 samples	1,206x
Core i7-7820HKIntelBench 72%, 18,903 samples	755x
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	528x

GPU
GTX 1070 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 72%, 73,882 samples	966x
HD Graphics 630IntelBench 5%, 310,249 samples	561x
GTX 1080 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 95%, 17,197 samples	436x

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	191x
X400 M.2 2280 128GBSandiskBench 65%, 12,357 samples	153x
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	131x

RAM
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 27,567 samples	780x
HMA82GS6AFR8N-UH 2x16GBUnknownBench 75%, 4,851 samples	190x
HMA81GS6AFR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 75%, 4,951 samples	176x

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Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16