Alienware Aurora-R4

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	54.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware Aurora-R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07JNH0
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131126
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 14 '18 at 16:28
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 94.2 1-Core 113 2-Core 227 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 421 8-Core 573 63% 497 Pts	64-Core 574 36% 574 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	63.7% Good	Lighting 80.5 Reflection 86.6 Parallax 75.7 66% 80.9 fps	MRender 79.2 Gravity 73.9 Splatting 68.8 60% 74 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 168GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3G37R5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 37198 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2086 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 563 (64) Unknown 100 100 5046240 (65) Unknown 100 100 370608 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 10 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 94 94 2190 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 792 (B7) Unknown 98 98 12 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 100 163209805853 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 37198 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 37198 (E7) Temperature 94 94 6 (E9) Unknown 100 100 13262 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3256 (F1) Unknown 100 100 6722 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3661 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 260968	54.3% Above average	Read 469 Write 227 Mixed 238 68% 311 MB/s	4K Read 19 4K Write 16.4 4K Mixed 9.74 50% 15 MB/s	DQ Read 234 DQ Write 81.6 DQ Mixed 30.3 56% 115 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 54.3% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 931GB free Firmware: JC4A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 68771168 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5715 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 109919445 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11928 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3634 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 60 471269404 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 47244640284 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 21 68771168 (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 -18335215363199 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3158310346 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3578694241	63.3% Good	Read 109 Write 111 Mixed 89.7 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.61 135% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 828GB free Firmware: JC4A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 72040023 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3977 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 463614730 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14077 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3635 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 524301 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 59 521797663 (C2) HDA temperature 31 41 55834574879 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 15 72040023 (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 57307748654739 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4171908913 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3790368424	66.2% Good	Read 116 Write 114 Mixed 97.4 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.63 124% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 122,541 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	63% Good	MC Read 24.3 MC Write 22.2 MC Mixed 20.5 64% 22.3 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 16.2 SC Mixed 13.2 46% 15.9 GB/s	Latency 59.3 67% 59.3 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 72%

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Workstation 47%

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System: Alienware Aurora-R4

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	579x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	451x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	232x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	124x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	92x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	91x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	53x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	51x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x

RAM
HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 58%, 7,298 samples	123x
M378B5173DB0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 57%, 3,272 samples	58x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	54x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $262

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $37	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