Alienware Aurora-R4

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 71% 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	109% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware Aurora-R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0FPV4P
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131126
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 17 '17 at 19:05
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	11%

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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 i7-4820K-$110 23,169 User benchmarks, average bench 72% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	77.7% Very good	Memory 90.7 1-Core 111 2-Core 216 80% 139 Pts	4-Core 350 8-Core 552 56% 451 Pts	64-Core 552 34% 552 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 147 Reflection 141 Parallax 126 120% 138 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 136 Splatting 108 96% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 1.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: MX6OABX0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 135 135 34387788197 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1376 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 13162 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1313 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1378 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1378 (C2) HDA temperature 137 137 188979478568 (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 (F0) Head flying hours 99 99 13156 (F1) Unknown 100 100 176719784049 (F2) Unknown 100 100 155266339472	86.1% Excellent	Read 152 Write 149 Mixed 141 111% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.17 71% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 107%
WD Re 4TB (2012)-$64 4,260 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 972GB free Firmware: 01.01K03 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 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 144 143 11791 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4782 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7483 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 859 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 22 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4759 (C2) HDA temperature 111 105 41 (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	63.2% Good	Read 107 Write 113 Mixed 107 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 2.73 4K Mixed 0.51 140% 1.34 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 96%
WD Black 3TB (2013)-$151 16,992 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 379GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 243 150 6850 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1910 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6311 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 754 (10) Unknown 36 164 637417061473 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 23 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1886 (C2) HDA temperature 106 102 46 (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	75.1% Very good	Read 139 Write 123 Mixed 114 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.56 4K Mixed 0.24 98% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 100%
ST310005 20AS 1TB 137 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 497GB free, PID 1018 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	15% Very poor	Read 31.6 Write 27.4 Mixed 28.4 37% 29.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.45 65% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 15% Great: 20%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT451U6AFR8C-PB 4x4GB 3,905 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	84.7% Excellent	MC Read 30.6 MC Write 35.6 MC Mixed 31.4 93% 32.5 GB/s	SC Read 15.2 SC Write 14.8 SC Mixed 13.4 41% 14.5 GB/s	Latency 66.3 60% 66.3 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 82%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 47%

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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