Alienware Aurora R5

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 40% Speed boat	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 35% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	49.5% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (62%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 01NYPT
Memory	4.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171213
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	May 17 '18 at 06:21
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	62%

PC Performing above expectations (67^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 above expectations (91^st percentile)	78.2% Very good	Memory 86.6 1-Core 112 2-Core 210 78% 136 Pts	4-Core 376 8-Core 618 61% 497 Pts	64-Core 638 40% 638 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 78.2% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Dell(1028 1131) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing below potential (57^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	49.5% Average	Lighting 61.6 Reflection 64.8 Parallax 57.7 50% 61.4 fps	MRender 70 Gravity 57.9 Splatting 51.5 48% 59.8 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 796GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 133224621 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 92 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 261588078 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 13026 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 85 (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 60 51 723779624 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 597 (C2) HDA temperature 40 18 77309411368 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 133224621 (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 -55495272418640 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18521377881 (F2) Unknown 100 253 43465497503	110% Outstanding	Read 204 Write 178 Mixed 161 136% 181 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.33 94% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 112%
Seagate BUP Slim BK 1TB 18,390 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 547GB free Firmware: 0108 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	53.2% Above average	Read 102 Write 82.4 Mixed 70.7 64% 85 MB/s	4K Read 1.09 4K Write 3.95 4K Mixed 0.28 149% 1.77 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 63%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 2TB 570 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 631GB free, PID d000 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	43.7% Average	Read 107 Write 105 Mixed 27 94% 79.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.16 64% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 43.7% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 2x4GB 8,569 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (32^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.5% Good	MC Read 25.8 MC Write 25.8 MC Mixed 19.8 68% 23.8 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 18.8 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 70.8 56% 70.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 78%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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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	1,036x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	375x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	246x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	589x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	312x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	189x

SSD
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc300Bench 119%, 4,485 samples	129x
NVMe LITEON 256GBCx2-8b256-q11Bench 168%, 2,143 samples	128x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	50x

RAM
HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF 1x16GBHynixBench 39%, 5,448 samples	298x
16ATF2G64AZ-2G1B1 1x16GBMicronBench 39%, 1,618 samples	120x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples	101x

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Value: 107% - Outstanding

Total price: $312

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	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