Alienware Aurora-R3

Performance Results


Gaming 23% Surfboard	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 79%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	21.2% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 10 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). 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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora-R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 046MHW
Memory	3.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20110525
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Apr 09 '18 at 07:39
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	79% Very good	Memory 97.6 1-Core 107 2-Core 203 80% 136 Pts	4-Core 328 8-Core 518 52% 423 Pts	64-Core 534 33% 534 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6950-$290 24,657 User benchmarks, average bench 19% AMD(1002 0B00) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	21.2% Poor	Lighting 27 Reflection 21.1 Parallax 23.2 22% 23.8 fps	MRender 20.9 Gravity 21.6 Splatting 27.6 20% 23.4 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 21.2% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 480GB-$250 15,510 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 433GB free Firmware: 520A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 90 90 34363011165 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -17179869183177 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 201 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 105 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 562 (BD) vendor-specific 29 38 73016934429 (C2) HDA temperature 29 38 73016934429 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3272797 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3272797 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3272797 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1009 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1502 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1502 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1049	39.7% Below average	Read 261 Write 141 Mixed 196 44% 199 MB/s	4K Read 16.1 4K Write 14.6 4K Mixed 14.3 50% 15 MB/s	DQ Read 148 DQ Write 77.7 DQ Mixed 44.4 51% 90.1 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 39.7% Great: 65%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 569GB free (System drive) Firmware: JC4A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 239823680 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5824 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 54 21626021230 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6519 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4322 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 131074 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 60 538837023 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 68719476767 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 42 25 239823680 (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 -27492085645078 (F1) Unknown 100 253 391672618 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2534930176	50.5% Above average	Read 89 Write 86.8 Mixed 23.3 48% 66.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.37 81% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 50.5% Great: 68%
Seagate Momentus XT SSHD 2.5" 500GB-$28 11,469 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 353GB free Firmware: DEM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 174933499 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 171294504 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10997 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4327 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 253 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 60 538705950 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 49 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 40 40 121393 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 64424509470 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 51 34 174933499 (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 32079110740529 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3938117564 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3148535913	53.4% Above average	Read 95 Write 91.2 Mixed 76.2 66% 87.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 0.89 4K Mixed 0.33 85% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2133EL Serie 4x2GB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM 2133 MHz Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	71% Very good	MC Read 24.7 MC Write 26.5 MC Mixed 22.4 70% 24.5 GB/s	SC Read 19 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 21.2 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 48 83% 48 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 72%

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Workstation 31%

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System: Alienware Aurora-R3

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	169x
Core i7-2600Intel $201Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	94x
Core i5-2300IntelBench 64%, 19,722 samples	28x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	49x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	34x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	30x

SSD
MX500 1TBCrucial $75Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	14x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	9x

RAM
M378B5273CH0 4x4GBSamsungBench 49%, 117 samples	13x
HMT351U6BFR8 4x4GBHynixBench 49%, 61 samples	9x
HMT41GU7BFR8 HMT351U6CFR8 HMT451U6DFR8 HMT351U6EFR8 20GBHynixBench 56%, 12 samples	9x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $594

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	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) $29	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