Alienware Aurora R6

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (90th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 10 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	71.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	136% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R6 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07HV66
Memory	27.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170223
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 23 '17 at 23:25
Run Duration	104 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	22%

PC Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	95.5% Outstanding	Memory 92.4 1-Core 140 2-Core 279 94% 171 Pts	4-Core 531 8-Core 775 82% 653 Pts	64-Core 771 48% 771 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Titan X Pascal-$286 8,692 User benchmarks, average bench 121% Dell(1028 119A) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 375.63 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	71.9% Very good	Lighting 129 Reflection 8.58 Parallax 7.44 105% 48.2 fps	MRender 11.2 Gravity 8.1 Splatting 10.4 8% 9.92 fps
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 132%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Nvme PC300 SK hy 256GB 3,798 User benchmarks, average bench 113% 125GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2000 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Read 1,483 Write 401 Mixed 636 182% 840 MB/s	4K Read 35.5 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 13.6 132% 54.5 MB/s	DQ Read 316 DQ Write 384 DQ Mixed 13.8 104% 238 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 137%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 100 104284928 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 14 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 94396 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 11 (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 65 52 606273571 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 104 (C2) HDA temperature 35 48 90194313251 (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 -50525995270140 (F1) Unknown 100 253 141407692 (F2) Unknown 100 253 70747187	107% Outstanding	Read 193 Write 181 Mixed 176 138% 183 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.22 88% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KYXC0V-MIB 2x16GB 158 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	82.1% Excellent	MC Read 29.5 MC Write 31.3 MC Mixed 25.8 82% 28.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.6 SC Write 33.6 SC Mixed 25.4 74% 25.9 GB/s	Latency 63.3 63% 63.3 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 84%

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System: Alienware Aurora R6

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	1,332x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	450x
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	261x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	696x
GTX 1080Nvidia $265Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	459x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	178x

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	389x
THNSN5512GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBToshibaBench 122%, 19,561 samples	58x
PC300 SK hy 256GBNvmeBench 113%, 3,798 samples	48x

RAM
HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBHynixBench 74%, 20,415 samples	228x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G3B1 2x8GBMicronBench 73%, 7,552 samples	158x
HMA82GU6AFR8N-UH 1x16GBHynixBench 43%, 3,066 samples	75x

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Value: 112% - Outstanding

Total price: $299

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $177	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