Alienware Aurora R6

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Destroyer	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 73.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	78.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	141% 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	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.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware Aurora R6 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07HV66
Memory	6.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170213
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	Jan 28 '18 at 07:45
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	27%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 below expectations (24^th percentile)	73.3% Very good	Memory 81 1-Core 106 2-Core 205 74% 131 Pts	4-Core 369 8-Core 432 52% 401 Pts	64-Core 593 37% 593 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Dell(1028 3366) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 387.95 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.5% Very good	Lighting 98.8 Reflection 104 Parallax 89 80% 97.1 fps	MRender 92.5 Gravity 97.9 Splatting 85.1 75% 91.8 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 23,829 User benchmarks, average bench 109% 12GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5KDA Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	141% Outstanding	Read 1,551 Write 280 Mixed 133 139% 655 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 85 4K Mixed 48 153% 54.5 MB/s	DQ Read 443 DQ Write 156 DQ Mixed 72.5 113% 224 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 141% Great: 141%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$51 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 100 226416448 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 236 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 209918 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5603 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 104 (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 65 56 723320867 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 39278 (C2) HDA temperature 35 44 77309411363 (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 -82489141881830 (F1) Unknown 100 253 39335194 (F2) Unknown 100 253 40536908	104% Outstanding	Read 195 Write 168 Mixed 170 134% 178 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.25 93% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 2x8GB 20,415 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	59.7% Above average	MC Read 22.8 MC Write 22.7 MC Mixed 19.8 62% 21.8 GB/s	SC Read 11.5 SC Write 15.7 SC Mixed 16.2 41% 14.5 GB/s	Latency 78.8 51% 78.8 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 59.7% Great: 87%

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Gaming 64%

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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	1,328x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	447x
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	260x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	695x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	456x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	178x

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	388x
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	227x
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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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