Alienware Aurora-R4

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 69% Battle cruiser	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	7.56% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora-R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07JNH0
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120208
Uptime	5.5 Days
Run Date	Nov 22 '19 at 15:04
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (40^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	73.2% Very good	Memory 89.5 1-Core 98.3 2-Core 192 74% 126 Pts	4-Core 308 8-Core 490 49% 399 Pts	64-Core 493 30% 493 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7850-$174 49,592 User benchmarks, average bench 19% Sapphire(174B E221) 1GB CLim: 860 MHz, MLim: 1200 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 17.7 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	7.56% Terrible	Lighting 0.07 Reflection 27.8 Parallax 31.2 0% 19.7 fps	MRender 25 Gravity 20.7 Splatting 32.9 22% 26.2 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 7.56% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 2TB 13,609 User benchmarks, average bench 146% 633GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 70 66 138 82 105 148 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	73.8% Very good	Read 154 Write 164 Mixed 94.3 SusWrite 101 94% 128 MB/s	4K Read 3.1 4K Write 3.5 4K Mixed 1.4 350% 2.67 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 213%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 2TB 667 User benchmarks, average bench 146% 205GB free Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 236 238 237 240 238 240 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	126% Outstanding	Read 200 Write 176 Mixed 81.7 SusWrite 238 127% 174 MB/s	4K Read 4.4 4K Write 3.9 4K Mixed 1.7 444% 3.33 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 221%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 16JTF51264AZ- 4x4GB 112 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	87.6% Excellent	MC Read 31.5 MC Write 37.5 MC Mixed 32.9 97% 34 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 13.9 SC Mixed 12.7 40% 14 GB/s	Latency 67.8 59% 67.8 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 98%

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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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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 47%

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System: Alienware Aurora-R4

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	578x
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 $109Bench 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 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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) $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