Alienware Aurora R6

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 84%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	185% 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	48GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 48GB 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.

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Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R6 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07HV66
Memory	42.1 GB free of 48 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170213
Uptime	6 Days
Run Date	Dec 30 '17 at 15:38
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	24%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd 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 (97^th percentile)	84% Excellent	Memory 81.8 1-Core 129 2-Core 250 85% 153 Pts	4-Core 464 8-Core 702 72% 583 Pts	64-Core 688 43% 688 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Dell(1028 3301) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.66 Performing below potential (62^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.4% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 111 Parallax 91.8 83% 101 fps	MRender 90.1 Gravity 90.5 Splatting 95.2 76% 92 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 628GB free Firmware: X41200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1949 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 314 (A5) Unknown 100 100 8454250 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 54 (A8) Unknown 100 100 8 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1029 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 76 64 274879086616 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 128849936414 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1913 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2181 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2117 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1533 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	51% Above average	Read 476 Write 226 Mixed 272 71% 325 MB/s	4K Read 19.5 4K Write 33.6 4K Mixed 8.43 58% 20.5 MB/s	DQ Read 26.2 DQ Write 37.2 DQ Mixed 9.75 14% 24.4 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 107%
Toshiba THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 23,829 User benchmarks, average bench 109% 68GB free (System drive) Firmware: 4101 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	185% Outstanding	Read 1,592 Write 779 Mixed 962 244% 1,111 MB/s	4K Read 42.1 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 49.7 188% 68.8 MB/s	DQ Read 407 DQ Write 317 DQ Mixed 31.5 114% 252 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 185% Great: 141%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 878GB free Firmware: JB0OA3W0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 193 193 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 761 (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 2066 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 403 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 28192 (C2) HDA temperature 222 222 176094838811 (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 100 100 102 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1917496098 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3747105482 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	78.6% Very good	Read 142 Write 132 Mixed 124 100% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.16 77% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBR2 859B BLS16G4D240FSB.16FBD 859B BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBR2 859B BLS16G4D240FSB.16FBD 48GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2400, 2400, 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 16384, 8192, 16384 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	81% Excellent	MC Read 28.1 MC Write 31.2 MC Mixed 27.2 82% 28.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 32.5 SC Mixed 25.9 73% 25.4 GB/s	Latency 77.3 52% 77.3 ns
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 81%

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Desktop 83%

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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 $242Bench 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