Alienware Aurora-R4

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	19.8% 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	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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora-R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07JNH0
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131126
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 29 '18 at 06:03
Run Duration	106 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	74.6% Very good	Memory 91.9 1-Core 99.1 2-Core 186 74% 126 Pts	4-Core 311 8-Core 476 49% 393 Pts	64-Core 486 30% 486 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-$170 123,956 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Nvidia(10DE 098A) 1.5GB CLim: 1202 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 1.5GB, Driver: 398.36 Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	19.8% Very poor	Lighting 22.9 Reflection 21 Parallax 25.8 19% 23.2 fps	MRender 33.4 Gravity 27.7 Splatting 22 22% 27.7 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 19.8% Great: 21%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$28 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 537GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 125 130 128 136 116 86 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	80.8% Excellent	Read 161 Write 158 Mixed 103 SusWrite 120 100% 136 MB/s	4K Read 1.4 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1.2 240% 1.73 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GB 6,584 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	81.9% Excellent	MC Read 30.4 MC Write 33.8 MC Mixed 29.7 90% 31.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 13.8 SC Mixed 12.4 41% 14.3 GB/s	Latency 64.2 62% 64.2 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 62%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 47%

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System: Alienware Aurora-R4

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	581x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	458x
Core i7-3930KIntel $195Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	234x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	125x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	93x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	92x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	53x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	51x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	45x

RAM
HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 58%, 7,298 samples	124x
M378B5173DB0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 57%, 3,272 samples	58x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	54x

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Value: 56% - Above average

Total price: $418

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $156	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $361	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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