Alienware Aurora R6

Performance Results


Gaming 112% UFO	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 95% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 88.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	124% 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	308% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	Alienware Aurora R6 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07HV66
Memory	29.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170605
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 13 '17 at 23:53
Run Duration	151 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.6% Excellent	Memory 83.6 1-Core 131 2-Core 258 87% 158 Pts	4-Core 507 8-Core 706 76% 606 Pts	64-Core 705 44% 705 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85E5) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2775 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing below potential (50^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	124% Outstanding	Lighting 171 Reflection 188 Parallax 180 139% 180 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 170 Splatting 119 111% 137 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 903GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 547 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 103 (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 72 65 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 24 (F1) Unknown 99 99 865476462	109% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 409 Mixed 415 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 45.6 4K Write 70.5 4K Mixed 47.9 168% 54.7 MB/s	DQ Read 319 DQ Write 197 DQ Mixed 121 127% 213 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 133%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$249 18,356 User benchmarks, average bench 279% 859GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	308% Outstanding	Read 2,629 Write 1,908 Mixed 1,806 469% 2,114 MB/s	4K Read 52.1 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 66.2 223% 76.5 MB/s	DQ Read 540 DQ Write 229 DQ Mixed 154 175% 307 MB/s
Poor: 168% ↑ This bench: 308% Great: 363%
Seagate ST6000NE0021-2EN11C 6TB 185 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 5.5TB free Firmware: EN02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 64 129492230 (03) Spinup time 90 85 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 35 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 10349219 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -768799145815 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 16 (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 52 44 825098288 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 15 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1918 (C2) HDA temperature 48 56 98784247856 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 81 64 129492230 (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 -128857608814445 (F1) Unknown 100 253 261338598 (F2) Unknown 100 253 113417564	125% Outstanding	Read 220 Write 214 Mixed 174 152% 203 MB/s	4K Read 1.54 4K Write 7.07 4K Mixed 0.33 232% 2.98 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 125%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 780GB free Firmware: JB0OA3W0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 112 112 98784247810 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 330 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 1760 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 136 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 24736 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 188979740704 (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 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 147 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2635156807 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2646381106 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	67.8% Good	Read 129 Write 108 Mixed 117 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.21 73% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 4x8GB 2,034 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	80.7% Excellent	MC Read 29.1 MC Write 31.3 MC Mixed 25.6 82% 28.7 GB/s	SC Read 18 SC Write 32.5 SC Mixed 25.4 72% 25.3 GB/s	Latency 74.1 54% 74.1 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 85%

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Workstation 55%

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System: Alienware Aurora R6

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	1,330x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	448x
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 $295	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 $40	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