Alienware Aurora R6

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	105% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	131% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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System	Alienware Aurora R6 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07HV66
Memory	25.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161230
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 25 '17 at 05:10
Run Duration	290 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	84.3% Excellent	Memory 84.7 1-Core 137 2-Core 259 89% 160 Pts	4-Core 452 8-Core 671 70% 562 Pts	64-Core 685 42% 685 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Dell(1028 3366) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 375.63 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 137 Reflection 146 Parallax 125 111% 136 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 132 Splatting 109 96% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 930GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 3 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 78 68 22 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10509735	107% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 412 Mixed 420 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 43.3 4K Write 79.3 4K Mixed 41.5 161% 54.7 MB/s	DQ Read 311 DQ Write 251 DQ Mixed 122 134% 228 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 854GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 3 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 70 65 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 173552545	96.1% Outstanding	Read 481 Write 406 Mixed 383 94% 423 MB/s	4K Read 41.1 4K Write 79.8 4K Mixed 25.1 137% 48.7 MB/s	DQ Read 294 DQ Write 242 DQ Mixed 127 134% 221 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 133%
Toshiba THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 23,829 User benchmarks, average bench 109% 162GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5KDA Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	131% Outstanding	Read 1,185 Write 310 Mixed 460 141% 652 MB/s	4K Read 33.4 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 39.7 160% 60.9 MB/s	DQ Read 457 DQ Write 249 DQ Mixed 166 174% 291 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 141%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 100 25651096 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 16 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 15931 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 14 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 62 537985055 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 59 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 73014444063 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 108125801676802 (F1) Unknown 100 253 371753806 (F2) Unknown 100 253 17246226	101% Outstanding	Read 181 Write 173 Mixed 153 127% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 0.65 4K Mixed 0.09 35% 0.35 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 114%
ST2000DM001-1CH1 2TB 27 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 488GB free, PID 1066 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	40.6% Average	Read 106 Write 114 Mixed 74.2 124% 98.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.06 4K Write 0.11 4K Mixed 0.06 6% 0.08 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 40.6% Great: 72%
USB Flash Memory 4GB 1,419 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 4GB free, PID 6544 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	7.27% Terrible	Read 23.2 Write 8.28 Mixed 12.9 16% 14.8 MB/s	4K Read 8.65 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.02 33% 2.89 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.27% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston XRGM6C-MIB 2x16GB 324 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2400 MHz clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	83.1% Excellent	MC Read 30 MC Write 32 MC Mixed 26.7 84% 29.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 33.3 SC Mixed 26.7 74% 26 GB/s	Latency 72.3 55% 72.3 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 90%

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System: Alienware Aurora R6

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	1,330x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	449x
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	261x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	696x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	458x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	178x

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	389x
THNSN5512GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBToshibaBench 122%, 19,561 samples	58x
PC300 SK hy 256GBNvmeBench 113%, 3,798 samples	48x

RAM
HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBHynixBench 74%, 20,415 samples	228x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G3B1 2x8GBMicronBench 73%, 7,552 samples	158x
M378A1K43CB2-CRC 2x8GBSamsungBench 74%, 24,860 samples	75x

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Value: 112% - Outstanding

Total price: $299

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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