Alienware Aurora

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 69%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	89.4% 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	45.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	14GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 14GB 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 04VWF2
Memory	18.1 GB free of 14 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20101110
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 26 '16 at 21:20
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	LTU-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing as expected (52^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 960-$220 16,233 User benchmarks, average bench 68% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.15 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	69% Good	Memory 92.1 1-Core 82.8 2-Core 148 66% 108 Pts	4-Core 256 8-Core 331 37% 293 Pts	64-Core 353 22% 353 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 76%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7563 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 116 Parallax 109 92% 113 fps	MRender 97.8 Gravity 106 Splatting 104 84% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 26GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 4115 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1333 (A5) Unknown 100 100 433878598731 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 31 (A8) Unknown 100 100 41 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 21 (AE) Unknown 100 100 67 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 45 193274576925 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 5596410807575 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4989 (EA) Unknown 100 100 11453 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7608 (F2) Unknown 253 253 14839 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	45.1% Average	Read 241 Write 179 Mixed 173 44% 198 MB/s	4K Read 23.9 4K Write 42.8 4K Mixed 11.4 74% 26 MB/s	DQ Read 23.6 DQ Write 121 DQ Mixed 15.8 29% 53.4 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 268GB free Firmware: JC4A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 240038803 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3602 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 201904021 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8064 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2859 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295098373 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 58 505217054 (C2) HDA temperature 30 42 73014444062 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 50 27 240038803 (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 -102628243521107 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4010958397 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3671341506	42.8% Average	Read 71.8 Write 77 Mixed 71.7 55% 73.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.36 89% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 42.8% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 14GB 9,406 User benchmarks, average bench 35% null MHz 2048, 4096, 2048, 4096, 2048 MB Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	41.4% Average	MC Read 16.3 MC Write 13.2 MC Mixed 12.3 40% 13.9 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 10.7 SC Mixed 11.9 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 41.4% Great: 52%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 70%

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Workstation 18%

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System: Alienware Aurora

CPU
Core i7-920Intel $90Bench 62%, 69,074 samples	219x
Core i7 930Intel $199Bench 64%, 19,497 samples	87x
Core i7 960Intel $220Bench 68%, 16,233 samples	51x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	36x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	34x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	32x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	16x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	12x
MZ7PD256HAFV-000H7 256GBSamsungBench 85%, 3,736 samples	12x

RAM
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 38,297 samples	80x
6x4GBUnknownBench 47%, 28,320 samples	73x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	64x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $249

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16