Alienware Aurora R6

Performance Results


Gaming 111% UFO	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 94% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	123% 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	307% 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	27.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170605
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Aug 20 '17 at 05:53
Run Duration	153 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$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)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 85.7 1-Core 130 2-Core 251 86% 155 Pts	4-Core 491 8-Core 705 75% 598 Pts	64-Core 703 44% 703 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 88.5% 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: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing below potential (47^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	123% Outstanding	Lighting 169 Reflection 184 Parallax 165 138% 173 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 169 Splatting 116 109% 135 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 902GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 696 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 104 (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 70 65 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 25 (F1) Unknown 99 99 883347170	109% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 409 Mixed 413 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 45.1 4K Write 70.3 4K Mixed 48 167% 54.5 MB/s	DQ Read 317 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 127 130% 215 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% 857GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	307% Outstanding	Read 2,534 Write 1,931 Mixed 1,863 468% 2,109 MB/s	4K Read 52.6 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 67.3 225% 77.2 MB/s	DQ Read 551 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 160 180% 316 MB/s
Poor: 168% ↑ This bench: 307% 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 above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 64 118852048 (03) Spinup time 90 85 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 36 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 18497535 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -104324755619521 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 17 (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 50 44 892272690 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 22 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3992 (C2) HDA temperature 50 56 98784247858 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 81 64 118852048 (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 44826573668645 (F1) Unknown 100 253 411431994 (F2) Unknown 100 253 197223838	118% Outstanding	Read 202 Write 206 Mixed 177 146% 195 MB/s	4K Read 1.6 4K Write 7.71 4K Mixed 0.31 244% 3.21 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 118% 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 as expected (53^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 111669149698 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 331 (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 1909 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 137 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 25627 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 188979740706 (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 100 100 152 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2653453671 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2659635358 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	61.6% Good	Read 119 Write 96.1 Mixed 108 81% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.14 54% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 61.6% 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 way above expectations (87^th percentile)	80.8% Excellent	MC Read 29.1 MC Write 31.2 MC Mixed 25.6 82% 28.6 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 32.9 SC Mixed 25.3 73% 25.4 GB/s	Latency 71.5 56% 71.5 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 80.8% 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 $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	447x
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 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	57x
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 $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) $35	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