Alienware Aurora R5

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 75.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	98.2% 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	111% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	Alienware Aurora R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 01NYPT
Memory	23.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171213
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Mar 20 '18 at 20:10
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	11%

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PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$170 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	75.8% Very good	Memory 82.1 1-Core 112 2-Core 210 76% 135 Pts	4-Core 375 8-Core 596 60% 485 Pts	64-Core 590 36% 590 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98.2% Outstanding	Lighting 136 Reflection 105 Parallax 91.1 111% 111 fps	MRender 89.7 Gravity 86.9 Splatting 92.7 74% 89.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 98.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Nvme PC300 SK hy 256GB 3,798 User benchmarks, average bench 113% 64GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2000 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	Read 1,102 Write 386 Mixed 573 150% 687 MB/s	4K Read 31.6 4K Write 87.8 4K Mixed 16.4 115% 45.3 MB/s	DQ Read 249 DQ Write 217 DQ Mixed 22.2 74% 163 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 137%
Seagate BUP BK 4TB 13,353 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 3TB free Firmware: 0304 Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	20.9% Poor	Read 38.7 Write 32.4 Mixed 35.5 27% 35.5 MB/s	4K Read 1.21 4K Write 4.37 4K Mixed 0.57 195% 2.05 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 20.9% Great: 65%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 931GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 76 63 44211731 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 738 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 438781 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8369 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 532 (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 64 54 622854180 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 957 (C2) HDA temperature 36 9 38654705700 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 4 1 44211731 (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 -7000796684126 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1085800083 (F2) Unknown 100 253 46225608	82.6% Excellent	Read 116 Write 172 Mixed 133 106% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.25 79% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF 0118 8GBF2X04HEEE36-12-K 0118 8GBF2X04HEEE36-12-K 32GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 16384, 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	68.2% Good	MC Read 24.7 MC Write 26.9 MC Mixed 22.5 71% 24.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.1 SC Write 23.4 SC Mixed 18.1 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 76.8 52% 76.8 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 75%

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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 R5

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,049x
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	377x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	249x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	599x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	316x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	190x

SSD
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc300Bench 119%, 4,485 samples	132x
NVMe LITEON 256GBCx2-8b256-q11Bench 168%, 2,143 samples	129x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	50x

RAM
HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF 1x16GBHynixBench 39%, 5,448 samples	304x
16ATF2G64AZ-2G1B1 1x16GBMicronBench 39%, 1,618 samples	122x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples	102x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $448

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16