Alienware Aurora R6

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.8%, 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.
Boot Drive	115% 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	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.

System	Alienware Aurora R6 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07HV66
Memory	7.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170213
Uptime	24.8 Days
Run Date	Jun 11 '18 at 18:12
Run Duration	239 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Memory 89.4 1-Core 126 2-Core 233 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 432 8-Core 698 69% 565 Pts	64-Core 694 43% 694 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Dell(1028 3366) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	103% Outstanding	Lighting 133 Reflection 144 Parallax 118 109% 132 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 130 Splatting 107 93% 114 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Nvme PC300 SK hy 256GB 3,798 User benchmarks, average bench 113% 82GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2000 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	115% Outstanding	Read 1,391 Write 323 Mixed 538 163% 750 MB/s	4K Read 34.5 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 13.5 127% 52.2 MB/s	DQ Read 35.5 DQ Write 118 DQ Mixed 13.4 29% 55.6 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 137%
Seagate ST4000LM024-2AN17V 4TB 7,786 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 74 65 25824852 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1309 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 625683 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 -139934329469182 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7 (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 79 72 470876181 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 95 95 10554 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16238 (C2) HDA temperature 21 40 55834574869 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 74 65 25824852 (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 135321534595093 (F1) Unknown 100 253 181321817 (F2) Unknown 100 253 98852419 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	66.1% Good	Read 128 Write 102 Mixed 71.1 74% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 4.88 4K Mixed 0.44 179% 2.09 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 63%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 258GB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 1993568 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 333 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 14829253 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6477 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 129 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 93 93 7 (BE) vendor-specific 70 55 638713886 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 64 64 72923 (C2) HDA temperature 30 45 77309411358 (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 -68990059672400 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10217408355 (F2) Unknown 100 253 116447424809	68% Good	Read 121 Write 116 Mixed 120 90% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.19 66% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 114%
Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 16GB 15,750 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 11GB free, PID 6545 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	6.92% Terrible	Read 22.5 Write 8.88 Mixed 8.5 14% 13.3 MB/s	4K Read 7.24 4K Write 0.005 4K Mixed 0.003 27% 2.42 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.92% Great: 6%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 2x8GB 20,415 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	76.1% Very good	MC Read 29.3 MC Write 29.2 MC Mixed 22.1 77% 26.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 29.1 SC Mixed 23.8 67% 23.4 GB/s	Latency 67.9 59% 67.9 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 87%

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Workstation 55%

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System: Alienware Aurora R6

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	1,331x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	449x
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	261x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	696x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	458x
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
M378A1K43CB2-CRC 2x8GBSamsungBench 74%, 24,860 samples	75x

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Value: 112% - Outstanding

Total price: $299

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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 $45	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