Alienware Aurora R6

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	114% 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	178% 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	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 (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R6 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07HV66
Memory	9.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170605
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Aug 24 '17 at 03:14
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing below expectations (38^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 as expected (49^th percentile)	77% Very good	Memory 85.6 1-Core 116 2-Core 209 78% 137 Pts	4-Core 368 8-Core 612 60% 490 Pts	64-Core 657 41% 657 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Dell(1028 120F) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	114% Outstanding	Lighting 154 Reflection 169 Parallax 156 126% 160 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 151 Splatting 109 101% 125 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 115GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 453 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 224 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 62 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 2 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1709031582	97.1% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 410 Mixed 417 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 73.5 4K Mixed 40.7 148% 50.5 MB/s	DQ Read 40.1 DQ Write 234 DQ Mixed 101 89% 125 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 134%
Toshiba THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 23,829 User benchmarks, average bench 109% 10GB free (System drive) Firmware: 4103 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	178% Outstanding	Read 1,584 Write 766 Mixed 480 206% 943 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 51 176% 66 MB/s	DQ Read 327 DQ Write 251 DQ Mixed 195 171% 258 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 178% Great: 141%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$50 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 662GB free Firmware: MX4OAC70 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 186 186 25783435463 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 651 (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 100 100 563 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 274 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 3383 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 3383 (C2) HDA temperature 177 177 184684773407 (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 100 100 293 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2569410429 (F2) Unknown 100 100 140893620	82.9% Excellent	Read 147 Write 142 Mixed 138 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.22 90% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 2x8GB 20,415 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	65.3% Good	MC Read 25.4 MC Write 22.7 MC Mixed 20.7 66% 22.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 23.3 SC Mixed 20.3 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 71.5 56% 71.5 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 87%

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

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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 $15	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