Alienware Aurora-R4

Performance Results


Gaming 43% Speed boat	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 35% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 72.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	51.2% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	67.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora-R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07JNH0
Memory	3.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131126
Uptime	17.8 Days
Run Date	Nov 02 '17 at 15:48
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	26%

PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	72.5% Very good	Memory 89.8 1-Core 75.9 2-Core 170 66% 112 Pts	4-Core 299 8-Core 434 46% 367 Pts	64-Core 460 28% 460 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Asus(1043 8508) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.0 Performing below potential (76^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	51.2% Above average	Lighting 63.5 Reflection 68.2 Parallax 61.6 52% 64.4 fps	MRender 73.1 Gravity 60.2 Splatting 53.8 50% 62.4 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$190 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 60GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9699 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1678 (B1) Unknown 98 98 94 (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 67 55 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 44 (F1) Unknown 99 99 32402580637	67.6% Good	Read 500 Write 264 Mixed 374 84% 379 MB/s	4K Read 27.7 4K Write 62.9 4K Mixed 18.5 99% 36.3 MB/s	DQ Read 27.6 DQ Write 75 DQ Mixed 18.1 23% 40.2 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 352GB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 80580520 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6652 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 856902 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13767 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2174 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 75 63 404231553049 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 530 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 67 67 67481 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 -140737488355303 (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 -127315715551272 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2052121018 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1694090220	88.5% Excellent	Read 146 Write 163 Mixed 135 111% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.32 107% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 112%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$39 55,121 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 350GB free Firmware: 19.01H19 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 169 4308 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7791 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 18099 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3418 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1774 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6016 (C2) HDA temperature 121 103 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 84 84 11926 (F1) Unknown 200 200 33228426156 (F2) Unknown 200 200 64022464487	61.8% Good	Read 105 Write 110 Mixed 102 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.27 83% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 61.8% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B5773DH0-CK0 4x2GB 598 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	77.6% Very good	MC Read 28.8 MC Write 33.2 MC Mixed 27.4 85% 29.8 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 13 SC Mixed 11.3 36% 12.6 GB/s	Latency 67.4 59% 67.4 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 84%

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System: Alienware Aurora-R4

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	579x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	451x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	232x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	124x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	92x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	91x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	53x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	51x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x

RAM
HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 58%, 7,298 samples	123x
M378B5173DB0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 57%, 3,272 samples	58x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	54x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $262

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