Performance Results


Gaming 65% Battle cruiser	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (7th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 93 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	87.3% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	206% 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.

Very high background CPU (65%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware Aurora R6 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07HV66
Memory	7.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20181107
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 21 '19 at 22:35
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	65%

PC Performing way below expectations (7^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 below expectations (20^th percentile)	71.6% Very good	Memory 79.6 1-Core 110 2-Core 195 73% 128 Pts	4-Core 343 8-Core 586 56% 464 Pts	64-Core 580 36% 580 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Dell(1028 3366) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2600 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 417.35 Performing below potential (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	87.3% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 123 Parallax 82.6 90% 105 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 112 Splatting 92.1 82% 101 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 385GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1534 896 616 618 607 603 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	206% Outstanding	Read 1947 Write 1,592 Mixed 1,283 SusWrite 812 315% 1,408 MB/s	4K Read 37.2 4K Write 75.2 4K Mixed 49.7 160% 54 MB/s	DQ Read 710 DQ Write 590 DQ Mixed 615 470% 639 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 206% Great: 340%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC27 SusWrite @10s intervals: 79 102 69 81 44 62 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	37.8% Below average	Read 58.8 Write 104 Mixed 44.7 SusWrite 72.7 51% 70 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.5 93% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 37.8% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$45 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	59.9% Above average	MC Read 25.1 MC Write 23.1 MC Mixed 18.8 64% 22.3 GB/s	SC Read 9.5 SC Write 16.2 SC Mixed 11.5 35% 12.4 GB/s	Latency 81.2 49% 81.2 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 59.9% Great: 110%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 64%

Destroyer

Desktop 83%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 55%

Yacht

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	390x
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
HMA82GU6AFR8N-UH 1x16GBHynixBench 43%, 3,066 samples	75x

Value: 112% - Outstanding

Total price: $299

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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