Alienware Aurora-R4

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 87.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	74.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Very high background CPU (38%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora-R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07JNH0
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131126
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 11 '18 at 23:52
Run Duration	131 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	38%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3970X-$217 2,677 User benchmarks, average bench 78% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Memory 96.2 1-Core 111 2-Core 219 82% 142 Pts	4-Core 425 8-Core 640 66% 532 Pts	64-Core 827 51% 827 Pts
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 87GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4801 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 529 (B1) Unknown 97 97 27 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 57 44 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 10 (EB) Unknown 99 99 119 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21152055569	74.5% Very good	Read 503 Write 344 Mixed 349 88% 398 MB/s	4K Read 26.6 4K Write 54.7 4K Mixed 19.7 94% 33.7 MB/s	DQ Read 39.5 DQ Write 194 DQ Mixed 16.5 42% 83.3 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 126%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 2111568 (03) Spinup time 95 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1654 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 35284483 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5576 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 628 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885098499 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 68 50 13423149088 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 135 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 22100 (C2) HDA temperature 32 50 -140737488355296 (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 -84035330109765 (F1) Unknown 100 253 37169286444 (F2) Unknown 100 253 43017352495	65.4% Good	Read 132 Write 96.2 Mixed 120 88% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 0.89 4K Mixed 0.15 57% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 265GB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 92 79170584 (03) Spinup time 96 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1347 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 57 55 498276978412 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6495 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 804 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 478 (BC) Unknown 100 99 393222 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 61 53 9245687847 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 234 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 25505 (C2) HDA temperature 39 47 -140737488355289 (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 -134917807664851 (F1) Unknown 100 253 38697283290 (F2) Unknown 100 253 48953703351	81.9% Excellent	Read 154 Write 132 Mixed 139 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.08 4K Mixed 0.23 64% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 258GB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 104147368 (03) Spinup time 94 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 916 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 56 53 601351211384 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6374 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 805 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 91 91 9 (BC) Unknown 100 99 131074 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 59 55 722862121 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 226 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 76 76 48276 (C2) HDA temperature 41 45 25769803817 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 8 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 136365211652116 (F1) Unknown 100 253 39725155073 (F2) Unknown 100 253 48191137741	91.7% Outstanding	Read 166 Write 154 Mixed 152 119% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.22 66% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2133 4x4GB 142 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	120% Outstanding	MC Read 49.1 MC Write 49.4 MC Mixed 43.8 136% 47.4 GB/s	SC Read 19 SC Write 15.3 SC Mixed 14 46% 16.1 GB/s	Latency 53.3 75% 53.3 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 120%

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System: Alienware Aurora-R4

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	579x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	451x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	232x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	124x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	92x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	91x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	53x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	51x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x

RAM
HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 58%, 7,298 samples	123x
M378B5173DB0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 57%, 3,272 samples	58x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	54x

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Total price: $262

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