Alienware Aurora-R3

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (33rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 67 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 73%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	116% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	67.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 (25%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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System	Alienware Aurora-R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 046MHW
Memory	9.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110525
Uptime	11.7 Days
Run Date	Nov 26 '18 at 19:11
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	25%

PC Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	73% Very good	Memory 92 1-Core 94.7 2-Core 168 71% 118 Pts	4-Core 297 8-Core 400 44% 349 Pts	64-Core 490 30% 490 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Zotac(19DA 1474) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing below potential (19^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	116% Outstanding	Lighting 154 Reflection 187 Parallax 171 126% 171 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 169 Splatting 120 110% 136 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 960GB-$59 4,389 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 266GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 359 244 240 167 109 131 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	67.4% Good	Read 376 Write 377 Mixed 269 SusWrite 208 69% 308 MB/s	4K Read 17.7 4K Write 50.8 4K Mixed 23.3 84% 30.6 MB/s	DQ Read 307 DQ Write 318 DQ Mixed 176 170% 267 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 101%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$39 55,121 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 348GB free Firmware: 17.01H17 SusWrite @10s intervals: 69 70 69 69 70 70 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	55.5% Above average	Read 124 Write 104 Mixed 67.5 SusWrite 69.4 67% 91.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.8 152% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 55.5% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial CT51264BA160 4x4GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM 1600 MHz Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.1% Above average	MC Read 17.7 MC Write 18.5 MC Mixed 16.4 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 16.5 SC Mixed 12.9 41% 14.5 GB/s	Latency 64 62% 64 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 56%

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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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Typical Aurora-R3 Builds (Compare 331 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 38%

Jet ski

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

Sail boat

System: Alienware Aurora-R3

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	169x
Core i7-2600Intel $194Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	94x
Core i5-2300IntelBench 64%, 19,722 samples	28x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	49x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	34x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	30x

SSD
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	14x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	9x

RAM
M378B5273CH0 4x4GBSamsungBench 49%, 117 samples	13x
HMT351U6BFR8 4x4GBHynixBench 49%, 61 samples	9x
HMT41GU7BFR8 HMT351U6CFR8 HMT451U6DFR8 HMT351U6EFR8 20GBHynixBench 56%, 12 samples	9x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $585

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