Alienware Aurora-R4

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	91.1% 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	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.

High background CPU (30%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora-R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07JNH0
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120821
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 09 '17 at 03:46
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	30%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^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 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	74.2% Very good	Memory 92.6 1-Core 94.2 2-Core 176 72% 121 Pts	4-Core 302 8-Core 523 50% 413 Pts	64-Core 526 33% 526 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.1% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 117 Parallax 99.6 96% 112 fps	MRender 98 Gravity 105 Splatting 96.7 82% 99.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba THNSNC256GMMJ 256GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 193GB free Firmware: CJGA0202 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 99 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 27468 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2024 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 256 (AA) Unknown 100 100 170 (AD) Unknown 182 182 77344954631 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1391 (C2) HDA temperature 67 54 197569413153 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2653267 (F2) Unknown 100 100 653788 (F3) Unknown 100 100 1	38.8% Below average	Read 198 Write 182 Mixed 190 42% 190 MB/s	4K Read 14.7 4K Write 41.2 4K Mixed 12.7 60% 22.8 MB/s	DQ Read 15.8 DQ Write 64.3 DQ Mixed 11.9 17% 30.7 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 38.8% Great: 47%
Seagate Momentus XT 7200 RPM 2.5" 500GB 1,388 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 51GB free (System drive) Firmware: DEM3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 85 58290488 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2093 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 89 60 5155948302 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 28615 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2166 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 441 (BC) Unknown 100 253 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 57 572391458 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1521 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 35 35 130302 (C2) HDA temperature 34 43 55834574882 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 17 58290488 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 8 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -2615635055532 (F1) Unknown 100 253 56545266922 (F2) Unknown 100 253 93904566773 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	39.3% Below average	Read 62.5 Write 74.1 Mixed 71.7 52% 69.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.16 77% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 39.3% Great: 58%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 47GB free Firmware: JC4A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 186150941 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2177 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 8617313821 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 28544 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2156 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 59 538902560 (C2) HDA temperature 32 41 55834574880 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 14 186150941 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 6 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -40123584445121 (F1) Unknown 100 253 998937612 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1935633048	50.7% Above average	Read 112 Write 64.6 Mixed 98.3 69% 91.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.46 95% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 1,091 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	56.6% Above average	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 19.6 MC Mixed 18.4 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 15 SC Mixed 13.3 43% 14.9 GB/s	Latency 63 64% 63 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 51%

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

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System: Alienware Aurora-R4

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	584x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	459x
Core i7-3930KIntel $195Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	234x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	126x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	93x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	92x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	53x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	52x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	45x

RAM
HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 58%, 7,298 samples	124x
M378B5173DB0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 57%, 3,272 samples	58x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	55x

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Value: 56% - Above average

Total price: $415

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