Alienware Aurora R5

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 68.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	82.4% 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	92.1% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 01NYPT
Memory	25.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171213
Uptime	4 Days
Run Date	Mar 19 '18 at 20:34
Run Duration	298 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	68.1% Good	Memory 72 1-Core 99.6 2-Core 172 66% 114 Pts	4-Core 346 8-Core 600 57% 473 Pts	64-Core 578 36% 578 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 68.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.4% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 106 Parallax 102 86% 105 fps	MRender 90.8 Gravity 87.6 Splatting 94.2 75% 90.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Nvme PC300 SK hy 256GB 3,798 User benchmarks, average bench 113% 30GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2000 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	92.1% Outstanding	Read 925 Write 280 Mixed 439 119% 548 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 77.1 4K Mixed 16.3 103% 40.1 MB/s	DQ Read 199 DQ Write 171 DQ Mixed 21.9 61% 131 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 137%
Seagate BUP BK 4TB 13,353 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 3TB free Firmware: 0304 Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	16.8% Very poor	Read 31.7 Write 26.9 Mixed 31.1 23% 29.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.03 4K Write 0.07 4K Mixed 0.05 9% 0.05 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 16.8% Great: 65%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$27 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 931GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 75 63 32573016 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 735 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 430600 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8345 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 530 (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 64 54 606142500 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 954 (C2) HDA temperature 36 9 38654705700 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 3 1 32573016 (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 94162863005834 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1077988591 (F2) Unknown 100 253 42398385	87.8% Excellent	Read 146 Write 160 Mixed 133 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.23 77% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF 0118 8GBF2X04HEEE36-12-K 0118 8GBF2X04HEEE36-12-K 32GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 16384, 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	65.7% Good	MC Read 23.5 MC Write 26.8 MC Mixed 22.6 69% 24.3 GB/s	SC Read 10.8 SC Write 22.2 SC Mixed 16.6 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 96.8 41% 96.8 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 75%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 78%

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Workstation 49%

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System: Alienware Aurora R5

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,047x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	376x
Core i5-6400Intel $77Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	246x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	595x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	315x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	190x

SSD
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc300Bench 119%, 4,485 samples	132x
NVMe LITEON 256GBCx2-8b256-q11Bench 168%, 2,143 samples	129x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	50x

RAM
HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF 1x16GBHynixBench 39%, 5,448 samples	302x
16ATF2G64AZ-2G1B1 1x16GBMicronBench 39%, 1,618 samples	121x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples	102x

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Value: 107% - Outstanding

Total price: $312

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16