Alienware Aurora

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 44% Speed boat	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 34% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	63.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB 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.

System	Alienware Aurora (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 04VWF2
Memory	13.4 GB free of 20 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20100730
Uptime	3.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 25 '17 at 17:46
Run Duration	222 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (65^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 930-$199 19,497 User benchmarks, average bench 64% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 2.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	71.3% Very good	Memory 94.3 1-Core 75.8 2-Core 143 65% 104 Pts	4-Core 266 8-Core 359 40% 313 Pts	64-Core 365 23% 365 Pts
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 1982) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	63.2% Good	Lighting 79.9 Reflection 85.8 Parallax 75.4 65% 80.4 fps	MRender 79.2 Gravity 72.7 Splatting 67.8 59% 73.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 926GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 83 193514220 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 142 (05) Reallocated sector count 8 8 3781 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 44226 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 23580 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2125 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 3172 (BC) Unknown 100 74 648549957801 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 70 65 588644382 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 90194313246 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 33 193514220 (C5) Current pending sector count 97 97 154 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 97 97 154 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 100 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 122483877347573 (F1) Unknown 100 253 594784874 (F2) Unknown 100 253 322581674	58.5% Above average	Read 99.2 Write 105 Mixed 84.2 72% 96 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.52 116% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 418GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 125854312 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 91 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 102393504 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7775 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 90 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 93 93 7 (BE) vendor-specific 70 63 538509342 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 21547 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 47244640286 (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 110573933043186 (F1) Unknown 100 253 22807867532 (F2) Unknown 100 253 501660668472	92.2% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 150 Mixed 142 116% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.18 68% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 114%
Patriot Supersonic Boost XT USB 3.0 16GB-$10 179 User benchmarks, average bench 12% 3GB free, PID 5100 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	7.81% Terrible	Read 32.9 Write 8.06 Mixed 11.4 18% 17.4 MB/s	4K Read 5.26 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.004 20% 1.76 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 7.81% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 20GB 10,519 User benchmarks, average bench 39% null MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096, 2048, 2048 MB Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	48.6% Average	MC Read 18.4 MC Write 15.6 MC Mixed 16.5 48% 16.8 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 11 SC Mixed 13.7 34% 11.7 GB/s	Latency 59 68% 59 ns
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 48.6% Great: 54%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 70%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

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System: Alienware Aurora

CPU
Core i7-920Intel $90Bench 62%, 69,074 samples	218x
Core i7 930Intel $199Bench 64%, 19,497 samples	87x
Core i7 960Intel $220Bench 68%, 16,233 samples	51x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	36x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	34x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	32x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	16x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	12x
MZ7PD256HAFV-000H7 256GBSamsungBench 85%, 3,736 samples	12x

RAM
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 38,297 samples	80x
6x4GBUnknownBench 47%, 28,320 samples	73x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	64x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $249

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