Alienware Aurora

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	16.8% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	45.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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 (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 04VWF2
Memory	9.4 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20100406
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 10 '17 at 19:37
Run Duration	213 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-920-$90 69,074 User benchmarks, average bench 62% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.65 GHz, turbo 2.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	76.1% Very good	Memory 95.6 1-Core 84.6 2-Core 171 70% 117 Pts	4-Core 307 8-Core 446 47% 377 Pts	64-Core 446 28% 446 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 5970 (Crossfire Disabled) 1,620 User benchmarks, average bench 17% AMD(1002 2042) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	16.8% Very poor	Lighting 23.3 Reflection 12.7 Parallax 21.6 19% 19.2 fps	MRender 10.8 Gravity 18 Splatting 16.3 12% 15 fps
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 16.8% Great: 19%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 40GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (2^nd 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 2303 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1017 (B1) Unknown 97 97 79 (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 69 57 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 350 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12590013266	45.9% Average	Read 263 Write 250 Mixed 254 57% 256 MB/s	4K Read 14 4K Write 47.5 4K Mixed 12.7 63% 24.7 MB/s	DQ Read 15.5 DQ Write 50.2 DQ Mixed 10.1 14% 25.3 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 45.9% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 457GB free Firmware: CC4G Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 205166358 (03) Spinup time 94 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3694 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 70 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 21586676 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4188 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 4 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1532 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 137441050656 (BD) vendor-specific 68 68 32 (BE) vendor-specific 70 56 504954910 (C2) HDA temperature 30 44 60129542174 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 32 205166358 (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 70184060587930 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3143967552 (F2) Unknown 100 253 24329856	42.4% Average	Read 72.1 Write 75.7 Mixed 67.7 54% 71.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.19 4K Write 1.02 4K Mixed 0.3 60% 0.51 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 42.4% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 209GB free Firmware: CC4G Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 214983831 (03) Spinup time 94 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2782 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 89298041 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4152 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1533 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 78 78 22 (BC) Unknown 100 98 270587068481 (BD) vendor-specific 73 73 27 (BE) vendor-specific 70 54 505020446 (C2) HDA temperature 30 46 60129542174 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 43 25 214983831 (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 -126263448563754 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2845459880 (F2) Unknown 100 253 611565117	45.6% Average	Read 76.9 Write 82 Mixed 74.5 58% 77.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.33 77% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 45.6% Great: 70%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 126GB free Firmware: 1AA01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 68 68 10310 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 2641 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 10751 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12969 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1658 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 82 57 303169554 (C2) HDA temperature 78 55 370278422 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2651 (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 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	36.9% Below average	Read 61.3 Write 67.1 Mixed 73.6 51% 67.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.47 106% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 36.9% Great: 62%
Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB-$40 43,024 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 9GB free Firmware: CR100-11 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7360 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4218 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1936 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1374 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 416842 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 55 27 (C2) HDA temperature 157 103 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 416842 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 253 0	24.8% Poor	Read 42 Write 44.4 Mixed 43.8 33% 43.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 0.79 4K Mixed 0.36 75% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 24.8% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 6x2GB 38,297 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 6 of 6 slots used 12GB DIMM Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	56.2% Above average	MC Read 20.6 MC Write 19.1 MC Mixed 19.3 56% 19.7 GB/s	SC Read 12.5 SC Write 13.4 SC Mixed 15.2 39% 13.7 GB/s	Latency 55.4 72% 55.4 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 59%

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Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 70%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

Surfboard

System: Alienware Aurora

CPU
Core i7-920Intel $90Bench 62%, 69,074 samples	218x
Core i7 930Intel $199Bench 64%, 19,497 samples	87x
Core i7 960Intel $220Bench 68%, 16,233 samples	51x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	36x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	34x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	32x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	15x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	12x
MZ7PD256HAFV-000H7 256GBSamsungBench 85%, 3,736 samples	12x

RAM
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 38,297 samples	80x
6x4GBUnknownBench 47%, 28,320 samples	73x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	64x

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Total price: $249

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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