Alienware Aurora-R4

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 80.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.5% 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	83.1% 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 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora-R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07JNH0
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20131126
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 19 '16 at 23:52
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	IRL-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	80.6% Excellent	Memory 92.2 1-Core 101 2-Core 201 76% 131 Pts	4-Core 372 8-Core 589 59% 481 Pts	64-Core 734 45% 734 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4992) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7570 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.5% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 111 Parallax 100 85% 105 fps	MRender 92.9 Gravity 97.6 Splatting 85.3 75% 91.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 289GB free Firmware: 2B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 855 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 284 (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 68 60 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 282 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3051761465	82% Excellent	Read 271 Write 216 Mixed 221 52% 236 MB/s	4K Read 41.3 4K Write 77.5 4K Mixed 45.1 161% 54.6 MB/s	DQ Read 205 DQ Write 160 DQ Mixed 106 100% 157 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Series 500GB 7,390 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 216GB free Firmware: DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3873 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1336 (B1) Unknown 98 98 14 (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 71 56 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1319 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12989441714	106% Outstanding	Read 526 Write 507 Mixed 517 116% 517 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 33.9 169% 61.5 MB/s	DQ Read 47.5 DQ Write 117 DQ Mixed 33.3 39% 66.1 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 89%
Liteonit LCS-256 256GB 572 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 83GB free (System drive) Firmware: 10E Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2346 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 151581 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1792 (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 462432 (F2) Unknown 100 100 661694	83.1% Excellent	Read 487 Write 410 Mixed 432 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 81.3 4K Mixed 21.7 122% 45.7 MB/s	DQ Read 31.9 DQ Write 85.4 DQ Mixed 21.8 27% 46.4 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 96%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 387GB free Firmware: 0A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 172 2333 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2364 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 5919 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2331 (C0) Power-off retract count 197 197 2312 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 51 (C2) HDA temperature 111 106 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 92 92 5863 (F1) Unknown 200 200 14249599377 (F2) Unknown 200 200 15909454281	84.2% Excellent	Read 160 Write 133 Mixed 125 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 2.67 4K Mixed 0.29 116% 1.26 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B5173BH0-CK0 4x4GB 553 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	MC Read 36.1 MC Write 34.9 MC Mixed 30.1 96% 33.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 13.9 SC Mixed 12.6 40% 14 GB/s	Latency 63.7 63% 63.7 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 86%

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System: Alienware Aurora-R4

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	578x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	451x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	232x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	124x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	92x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	91x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	53x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	51x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x

RAM
HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 58%, 7,298 samples	123x
M378B5173DB0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 57%, 3,272 samples	58x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	54x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $262

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $15	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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