Alienware Aurora-R4

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 82.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	103% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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 (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora-R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07JNH0
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130822
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 18 '17 at 02:27
Run Duration	292 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4820K-$110 23,169 User benchmarks, average bench 72% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	82.9% Excellent	Memory 91.7 1-Core 119 2-Core 250 86% 154 Pts	4-Core 400 8-Core 622 63% 511 Pts	64-Core 621 38% 621 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% PNY(196E 119E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	103% Outstanding	Lighting 133 Reflection 142 Parallax 122 109% 132 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 128 Splatting 105 94% 115 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 227GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 463 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 619 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 57 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 350 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1105009104	115% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 506 Mixed 505 114% 508 MB/s	4K Read 36.2 4K Write 92.2 4K Mixed 48 165% 58.8 MB/s	DQ Read 281 DQ Write 275 DQ Mixed 134 140% 230 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 124%
Asmt 2115 256GB 374 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 180GB free Firmware: 0 Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	42.4% Average	Read 346 Write 78.8 Mixed 167 43% 197 MB/s	4K Read 17.6 4K Write 34.3 4K Mixed 13.3 62% 21.7 MB/s	DQ Read 126 DQ Write 112 DQ Mixed 25 44% 87.8 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 42.4% Great: 71%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 178GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 571 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 750 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 61 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 432 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2473780583
Poor: 71% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Pro 128GB-$70 18,195 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 104GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (7^th 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 98 98 5766 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3422 (B1) Unknown 99 99 52 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 54 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 563 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11441626617	74.7% Very good	Read 266 Write 254 Mixed 261 58% 260 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 73.9 4K Mixed 35.9 128% 46.1 MB/s	DQ Read 203 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 124 114% 174 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 119%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 100GB free Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	209% Outstanding	Read 1,759 Write 1,217 Mixed 1,167 306% 1,381 MB/s	4K Read 45.1 4K Write 96 4K Mixed 39.3 170% 60.2 MB/s	DQ Read 358 DQ Write 220 DQ Mixed 135 142% 238 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 209% Great: 236%
Patriot Torch II 64GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 42GB free Firmware: SBFM00.8 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1191 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1041 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 82 82 115 (AD) Unknown 100 100 524298 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 501 (C2) HDA temperature 67 67 141736083489 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 535	60% Above average	Read 262 Write 234 Mixed 247 55% 247 MB/s	4K Read 31.4 4K Write 67.6 4K Mixed 9.41 95% 36.1 MB/s	DQ Read 195 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 15.4 60% 132 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 81%
Patriot Torch II 64GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 28GB free Firmware: SBFM00.8 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1195 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1038 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 80 80 85 (AD) Unknown 100 100 458762 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 507 (C2) HDA temperature 67 67 141736083489 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 445	59.8% Above average	Read 260 Write 233 Mixed 247 55% 247 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 66.2 4K Mixed 9.31 94% 35.6 MB/s	DQ Read 204 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 15.1 61% 135 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 59.8% Great: 81%
Asmt 2115 80GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 13GB free Firmware: 0 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	34.1% Below average	Read 256 Write 83.3 Mixed 126 34% 155 MB/s	4K Read 15.2 4K Write 33 4K Mixed 6.36 49% 18.2 MB/s	DQ Read 143 DQ Write 74.3 DQ Mixed 31.6 44% 83 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 34.1% Great: 49%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B5173QH0-CK0 4x4GB 3,356 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.3% Outstanding	MC Read 35.9 MC Write 38.5 MC Mixed 34.4 104% 36.3 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 14.7 48% 16.8 GB/s	Latency 64.7 62% 64.7 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 94.3% Great: 69%

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Workstation 47%

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System: Alienware Aurora-R4

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	579x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	455x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	234x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	124x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	92x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	92x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	53x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	51x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16