Alienware Aurora

Performance Results


Gaming 49% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 74.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	63.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 04VWF2
Memory	17.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20100209
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 16 '17 at 04:45
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^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 960-$220 16,233 User benchmarks, average bench 68% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	74.3% Very good	Memory 94.9 1-Core 86.4 2-Core 166 70% 116 Pts	4-Core 292 8-Core 423 45% 357 Pts	64-Core 427 26% 427 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 76%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6264) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.2% Good	Lighting 81.3 Reflection 76.3 Parallax 73.7 66% 77.1 fps	MRender 70.1 Gravity 70.5 Splatting 69.2 57% 70 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Edge SE847 SSD 240GB 25 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 223GB free Firmware: 609ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3416659 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 53584011985606 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 284 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 68 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 37 45 81607327781 (C2) HDA temperature 37 45 81607327781 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3416659 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3416659 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3416659 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 30064771072 (E9) Unknown 0 0 229 (EA) Unknown 0 0 203 (F1) Unknown 0 0 203 (F2) Unknown 0 0 177	59.3% Above average	Read 266 Write 236 Mixed 249 56% 250 MB/s	4K Read 20 4K Write 56.9 4K Mixed 21.8 88% 32.9 MB/s	DQ Read 159 DQ Write 173 DQ Mixed 88.9 88% 141 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 59.3% Great: 79%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 456GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 5 (03) Spinup time 142 140 3891 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9841 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16728 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3473 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 335 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9505 (C2) HDA temperature 105 88 38 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	70% Very good	Read 117 Write 127 Mixed 116 90% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.37 98% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 69%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 336GB free Firmware: HP74 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 121984392 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1751 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2456319 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1551 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 983 (B4) Unknown 100 100 4291965755 (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 66 56 571867170 (C2) HDA temperature 34 44 73014444066 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 38 34 121984392 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 8 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	67.8% Good	Read 119 Write 117 Mixed 110 87% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.46 103% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 271GB free (System drive) Firmware: HP74 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 38985016 (03) Spinup time 100 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 993 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 40 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 155367547 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2857 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 968 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1403745219 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 57 571867170 (C2) HDA temperature 34 43 77309411362 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 56 33 38985016 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 40 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	64.4% Good	Read 117 Write 108 Mixed 89.4 78% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.06 4K Mixed 0.36 75% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GB 82,857 User benchmarks, average bench 34% null MHz 2048, 2048, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	50.9% Above average	MC Read 19 MC Write 15.1 MC Mixed 19.1 51% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 11.3 SC Write 11.5 SC Mixed 13 34% 11.9 GB/s	Latency 57.3 70% 57.3 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 51%

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

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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	218x
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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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