Alienware Aurora-R4

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 55% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 84.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	67.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	103% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (61%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora-R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0FPV4P
Memory	29.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131126
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 26 '17 at 02:49
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	61%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4930K-$90 22,204 User benchmarks, average bench 77% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	84.1% Excellent	Memory 92.3 1-Core 107 2-Core 210 79% 136 Pts	4-Core 410 8-Core 616 64% 513 Pts	64-Core 798 49% 798 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan Z (SLI Disabled) 571 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Nvidia(10DE 1078) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1202 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	67.4% Good	Lighting 95.7 Reflection 57.6 Parallax 70.8 78% 74.7 fps	MRender 73.9 Gravity 57.9 Splatting 45.3 47% 59 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 75%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 205GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1035 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 306 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 1 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 59 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 26 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3872079852	103% Outstanding	Read 524 Write 495 Mixed 514 114% 511 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 91.1 4K Mixed 36.9 144% 53.3 MB/s	DQ Read 24.9 DQ Write 343 DQ Mixed 148 125% 172 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 24670120 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 852 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 67934546 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2653 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 774 (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 73 60 454426651 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 108 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6329 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 51539607579 (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 -97100620625686 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15617800632 (F2) Unknown 100 253 13768780595	84.4% Excellent	Read 170 Write 123 Mixed 143 110% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 6.5 4K Mixed 0.43 198% 2.55 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600 C9 4x8GB 377 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	98.4% Outstanding	MC Read 40.3 MC Write 37.7 MC Mixed 37.4 110% 38.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 14.3 SC Mixed 13.2 42% 14.9 GB/s	Latency 63.6 63% 63.6 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 97%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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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