Alienware Aurora

Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 66% Battle cruiser	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 71.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.22% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	46.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (77%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware Aurora (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 04VWF2
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20100730
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 12 '17 at 00:53
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	DOM-User
Background CPU	77%

PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7 X 980-$148 8,133 User benchmarks, average bench 76% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.35 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	71.6% Very good	Memory 93.6 1-Core 81.8 2-Core 155 67% 110 Pts	4-Core 269 8-Core 456 44% 363 Pts	64-Core 573 36% 573 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 5670 18,196 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Dell(1028 68E0) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	6.22% Terrible	Lighting 7.6 Reflection 8.58 Parallax 6.06 6% 7.41 fps	MRender 8.14 Gravity 5.13 Splatting 9.17 6% 7.48 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.22% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 67GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 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 95 95 11651049 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -54245436948432 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 78 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 38 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 36 45 103082164260 (C2) HDA temperature 36 45 103082164260 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11651049 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11651049 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11651049 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 217 (EA) Unknown 0 0 220 (F1) Unknown 0 0 220 (F2) Unknown 0 0 291 (F4) Unknown 100 100 131073	46.8% Average	Read 265 Write 210 Mixed 225 52% 233 MB/s	4K Read 19.2 4K Write 57.4 4K Mixed 11.2 74% 29.2 MB/s	DQ Read 20.5 DQ Write 70 DQ Mixed 9.49 18% 33.3 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 46.8% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 321GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 29421243 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 7006 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 484976067 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14374 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3371 (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 62 57 639369254 (C2) HDA temperature 38 43 85899345958 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 42 23 29421243 (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 -60073707546750 (F1) Unknown 100 253 868669804 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3690260961	58.1% Above average	Read 105 Write 97.9 Mixed 98.6 76% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.49 107% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 6 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	37.9% Below average	MC Read 13.1 MC Write 13.6 MC Mixed 11.5 36% 12.7 GB/s	SC Read 9 SC Write 7.6 SC Mixed 10.5 26% 9.03 GB/s	Latency 60.8 66% 60.8 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 37.9% Great: 61%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 70%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

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System: Alienware Aurora

CPU
Core i7-920Intel $90Bench 62%, 69,074 samples	219x
Core i7 930Intel $199Bench 64%, 19,497 samples	87x
Core i7 960Intel $220Bench 68%, 16,233 samples	51x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	36x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	34x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	32x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	16x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	12x
MZ7PD256HAFV-000H7 256GBSamsungBench 85%, 3,736 samples	12x

RAM
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 38,297 samples	80x
6x4GBUnknownBench 47%, 28,320 samples	73x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	64x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $249

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16