Alienware Aurora R6

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 79%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	101% 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	71.5% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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System	Alienware Aurora R6 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07HV66
Memory	11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170426
Uptime	7.4 Days
Run Date	Feb 12 '19 at 07:47
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	11%

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PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$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 above expectations (66^th percentile)	79% Very good	Memory 82.9 1-Core 114 2-Core 220 78% 139 Pts	4-Core 405 8-Core 610 63% 507 Pts	64-Core 647 40% 647 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 79% 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: 418.81 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	101% Outstanding	Lighting 129 Reflection 140 Parallax 120 105% 130 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 127 Splatting 104 93% 114 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk X400 M.2 2280 128GB 12,357 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 63GB free (System drive) Firmware: X4152012 SusWrite @10s intervals: 191 98 92 88 88 92 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	71.5% Very good	Read 464 Write 325 Mixed 298 SusWrite 108 66% 299 MB/s	4K Read 26.7 4K Write 47.6 4K Mixed 31.2 106% 35.2 MB/s	DQ Read 342 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 232 193% 280 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 634GB free Firmware: CC27 SusWrite @10s intervals: 155 157 155 158 157 155 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	97.1% Outstanding	Read 183 Write 151 Mixed 75.8 SusWrite 156 103% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.8 148% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KYXC0V-MIB 1x16GB 487 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	40.8% Average	MC Read 14 MC Write 15.1 MC Mixed 11.8 39% 13.6 GB/s	SC Read 11.2 SC Write 14.1 SC Mixed 13.2 37% 12.8 GB/s	Latency 75.4 53% 75.4 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 40.8% Great: 46%

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

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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	1,330x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	447x
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	261x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	696x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	458x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	178x

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	389x
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	228x
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 $279	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 $46

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