Alienware Aurora R6

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	116% 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	177% 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.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	Alienware Aurora R6 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07HV66
Memory	27.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170605
Uptime	7.9 Days
Run Date	Sep 21 '17 at 23:54
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing as expected (44^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	77.6% Very good	Memory 88.4 1-Core 100 2-Core 193 74% 127 Pts	4-Core 360 8-Core 634 60% 497 Pts	64-Core 770 48% 770 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Dell(1028 3600) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 381.67 Performing below potential (19^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	116% Outstanding	Lighting 153 Reflection 189 Parallax 175 124% 172 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 170 Splatting 122 113% 139 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba THNSN5512GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB 19,561 User benchmarks, average bench 122% 425GB free (System drive) Firmware: 4103 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	177% Outstanding	Read 1,570 Write 843 Mixed 854 240% 1,089 MB/s	4K Read 26.2 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 45.7 157% 60.8 MB/s	DQ Read 338 DQ Write 309 DQ Mixed 141 156% 263 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 177% Great: 170%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$50 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2TB free Firmware: MX4OAC70 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 181 181 21489713344 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 43 (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 100 100 47 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 27 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 63 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 63 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 171800133664 (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 45 (F1) Unknown 100 100 68873034 (F2) Unknown 100 100 39278601	63.9% Good	Read 105 Write 117 Mixed 126 88% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.13 64% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston XRGM6C-MIB 2x16GB 324 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	86.2% Excellent	MC Read 31.8 MC Write 34.3 MC Mixed 28 90% 31.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.7 SC Write 33.7 SC Mixed 23.2 67% 23.5 GB/s	Latency 69.1 58% 69.1 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 90%

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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 $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	449x
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 $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