Alienware Aurora R7

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.9% 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	63.7% 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.

Very high background CPU (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R7 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0VDT73
Memory	7.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20181009
Uptime	11 Days
Run Date	May 07 '19 at 00:47
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	52%

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PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700-$200 349,567 User benchmarks, average bench 87% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	88% Excellent	Memory 92.6 1-Core 115 2-Core 222 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 450 8-Core 744 73% 597 Pts	64-Core 901 56% 901 Pts
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 94%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Dell(1028 3301) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.25 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.9% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 104 Parallax 93.5 83% 99.7 fps	MRender 98.5 Gravity 94.9 Splatting 98.7 80% 97.4 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 88%
Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop Coffee Lake i5 i7) 147,588 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Dell(1028 0858) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 22.20.16.4758 Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	5.35% Terrible	Lighting 7.43 Reflection 9.69 Parallax 7.47 6% 8.2 fps	MRender 10 Gravity 6.67 Splatting 0.04 4% 5.59 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.35% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Liteon CV8-8E128-11 SATA 128GB 5,529 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 12GB free (System drive) Firmware: C27110B SusWrite @10s intervals: 114 110 106 100 90 102 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	63.7% Good	Read 447 Write 142 Mixed 176 SusWrite 104 48% 217 MB/s	4K Read 21.2 4K Write 62.4 4K Mixed 30.8 105% 38.1 MB/s	DQ Read 166 DQ Write 141 DQ Mixed 128 103% 145 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC28 SusWrite @10s intervals: 177 201 201 200 200 201 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Read 202 Write 196 Mixed 82.7 SusWrite 197 124% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.9 157% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown HMA81GU6CJR8N-VK 2x8GB 6,858 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73% Very good	MC Read 29.6 MC Write 25.9 MC Mixed 21.2 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 27.8 SC Mixed 22 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 63 64% 63 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 88%

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System: Alienware Aurora R7

CPU
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	2,851x
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	1,384x
Core i5-8400Intel $131Bench 82%, 312,220 samples	769x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,294x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,037x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	663x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	841x
SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 238%, 21,542 samples	163x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	153x

RAM
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6H1 2x8GBUnknownBench 78%, 8,965 samples	551x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 9,471 samples	548x
HMA81GU6CJR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 6,858 samples	491x

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Total price: $633

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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