Alienware Aurora

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 68% Battle cruiser	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 72.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.22% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	50% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	9GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 9GB 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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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System	Alienware Aurora (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0H869M
Memory	6.1 GB free of 9 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20091028
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	Jan 22 '18 at 13:21
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing as expected (59^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 960-$220 16,233 User benchmarks, average bench 68% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	72.2% Very good	Memory 95 1-Core 84.4 2-Core 166 70% 115 Pts	4-Core 269 8-Core 402 42% 335 Pts	64-Core 416 26% 416 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 76%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 260-$250 11,945 User benchmarks, average bench 7% Nvidia(10DE 0738) 1.8GB Ram: 1.8GB, Driver: 342.1 Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	6.22% Terrible	Lighting 8.33 Reflection 7.31 Parallax 3.66 7% 6.43 fps	MRender 7.62 Gravity 6.23 Splatting 5.35 5% 6.4 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 6.22% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 157GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 7591214 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 -139612206919415 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 448 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 78 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 36 42 42952425508 (C2) HDA temperature 36 42 42952425508 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7591214 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7591214 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7591214 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 4294967297 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1816 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4117 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4117 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6230 (F4) Unknown 99 99 3080228	50% Above average	Read 261 Write 185 Mixed 206 48% 217 MB/s	4K Read 14.8 4K Write 55.3 4K Mixed 16.8 73% 29 MB/s	DQ Read 151 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 51.7 62% 109 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 50% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 437GB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 73306652 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 4085 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 4361220932 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 19795 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 4086 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 62 56 639828006 (C2) HDA temperature 38 44 21474836518 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 36 13 73306652 (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 -135050951626157 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2750343185 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1860366648	71.3% Very good	Read 125 Write 123 Mixed 103 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.57 120% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 9GB 4,068 User benchmarks, average bench 38% null MHz 1024, 1024, 2048, 1024, 2048, 2048 MB Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	43.8% Average	MC Read 16.1 MC Write 14.4 MC Mixed 13.6 42% 14.7 GB/s	SC Read 10.8 SC Write 11.3 SC Mixed 12.1 33% 11.4 GB/s	Latency 57.1 70% 57.1 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 43.8% Great: 52%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 70%

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Workstation 18%

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System: Alienware Aurora

CPU
Core i7-920Intel $90Bench 62%, 69,074 samples	219x
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 $79Bench 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 $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16