Alienware Aurora-R4

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 80.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	11.8% 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	40.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora-R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07JNH0
Memory	5.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120208
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Apr 22 '17 at 19:19
Run Duration	116 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	80.3% Excellent	Memory 95.5 1-Core 97.3 2-Core 189 75% 127 Pts	4-Core 355 8-Core 495 54% 425 Pts	64-Core 491 30% 491 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 555 717 User benchmarks, average bench 11% Nvidia(10DE 0958) 1GB CLim: 736 MHz, MLim: 957 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	11.8% Very poor	Lighting 13.9 Reflection 16.8 Parallax 12.1 11% 14.3 fps	MRender 18.7 Gravity 13.7 Splatting 14.6 13% 15.7 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 11.8% Great: 12%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 65GB free (System drive) Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4926013 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 59004260712755 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 301 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 85 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 34 40 64427130914 (C2) HDA temperature 34 40 64427130914 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4926013 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4926013 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4926013 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 42949672960 (E9) Unknown 0 0 873 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1031 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1031 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1233 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1245190	40.5% Average	Read 261 Write 115 Mixed 156 39% 177 MB/s	4K Read 21.7 4K Write 49.6 4K Mixed 11.1 73% 27.4 MB/s	DQ Read 22.7 DQ Write 60.5 DQ Mixed 11.2 17% 31.5 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 40.5% Great: 73%
Seagate ST3500830AS 500GB-$145 6,517 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 382GB free Firmware: 3.AFE Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 97 118270030 (03) Spinup time 94 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4192 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 54018995 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5224 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 132 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 35 673513512 (C2) HDA temperature 40 65 68719476776 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 84 56 98961852 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	41.8% Average	Read 76.2 Write 69.3 Mixed 68.2 54% 71.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.43 101% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 41.8% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Patriot 2133EL Series 4x2GB 63 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	MC Read 32.9 MC Write 38.6 MC Mixed 33.4 100% 35 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 14.2 SC Mixed 12.6 41% 14.4 GB/s	Latency 55.7 72% 55.7 ns
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 97%

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System: Alienware Aurora-R4

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	579x
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 $94Bench 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 $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