Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 76.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	10.8% 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	53.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware Aurora-R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07JNH0
Memory	6.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131126
Uptime	13.5 Days
Run Date	Feb 19 '21 at 20:05
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	18%

PC Performing as expected (48^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 way above expectations (91^st percentile)	76.7% Very good	Memory 92.1 1-Core 97.8 2-Core 195 75% 128 Pts	4-Core 332 8-Core 488 51% 410 Pts	64-Core 483 30% 483 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 555 717 User benchmarks, average bench 11% Nvidia(10DE 0958) 1GB CLim: 736 MHz, MLim: 957 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	10.8% Very poor	Lighting 12.6 Reflection 22.6 Parallax 10.8 10% 15.3 fps	MRender 17.9 Gravity 13.9 Splatting 12.2 12% 14.7 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 10.8% Great: 12%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MTFDDAK512MAM-1K1AB 512GB 102 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 281GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0A09 SusWrite @10s intervals: 189 199 198 208 201 206 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	53.8% Above average	Read 342 Write 204 Mixed 256 SusWrite 200 56% 250 MB/s	4K Read 15.9 4K Write 57.4 4K Mixed 17.9 77% 30.4 MB/s	DQ Read 89.3 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 19.5 38% 75.1 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 53.8% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 16JTF51264AZ-1G6M 4x4GB 460 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	MC Read 33.7 MC Write 38.8 MC Mixed 33.8 101% 35.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 14 SC Mixed 13.2 41% 14.2 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 97%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 58%

Gunboat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 47%

Yacht

RAM
HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 58%, 7,298 samples	122x
M378B5173DB0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 57%, 3,272 samples	58x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	54x

Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $262

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