Alienware Aurora R6

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 65% Battle cruiser	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 83.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	77.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

System	Alienware Aurora R6 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07HV66
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170223
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 21 '18 at 07:32
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing above expectations (60^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 way above expectations (94^th percentile)	83.4% Excellent	Memory 88.6 1-Core 124 2-Core 233 84% 149 Pts	4-Core 422 8-Core 696 68% 559 Pts	64-Core 694 43% 694 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 83.4% 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: 388.59 Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	77.5% Very good	Lighting 95.9 Reflection 109 Parallax 91.1 78% 98.8 fps	MRender 93.3 Gravity 87.5 Splatting 96.7 76% 92.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST4000LM024-2AN17V 4TB 7,786 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 74 65 26267031 (03) Spinup time 100 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 222 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 61527 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -21590800596780 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 21 (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 73 68 454295579 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 362 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 944 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 64424509467 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 74 65 26267031 (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 83936545865730 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17373954 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8893077 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	52.1% Above average	Read 82.9 Write 97.6 Mixed 60.2 60% 80.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 4.41 4K Mixed 0.52 175% 1.93 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 52.1% Great: 63%
Toshiba X300 6TB-$78 5,594 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 3TB free Firmware: FS2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 10937 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 18 (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 100 100 212 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 18 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 19 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 184684380197 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 212 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 566 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	99.2% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 173 Mixed 159 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 4.65 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.32 270% 2.39 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 99.2% Great: 109%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 883GB free Firmware: 2AR20002 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 86 86 4460 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1252 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 654 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 180 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 64 197569413144 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 11 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 7595	33.3% Below average	Read 63.8 Write 51.9 Mixed 65.3 46% 60.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.28 81% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 33.3% Great: 59%
SK hynix SC308 SATA 128GB 123 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 13GB free (System drive) Firmware: 30001P10 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 166 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1909 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 426 (64) Unknown 100 100 5159611 (AB) Unknown 253 253 0 (AC) Unknown 253 253 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 32 (AF) Unknown 253 253 0 (B0) Unknown 253 253 0 (B1) Unknown 86 1 157 (B2) Unknown 100 100 21 (B3) Unknown 100 100 114 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2526 (B5) Unknown 253 253 0 (B6) Unknown 253 253 0 (B7) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BF) G-sense error rate 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 0 2359326 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 94 1 1155 (E7) Temperature 87 87 14 (EA) Unknown 100 100 42567482688 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5278229393 (F2) Unknown 100 100 8869491079 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 13257430
Poor: 41% Great: 93%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 8ATF1G64AZ-2G3B1 2x8GB 7,552 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	76.3% Very good	MC Read 29.3 MC Write 29.5 MC Mixed 22.3 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 28.2 SC Mixed 24.4 66% 23.3 GB/s	Latency 69 58% 69 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 84%

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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 $182	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) $30	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