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 (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Boot Drive	56.3% 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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora-R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07JNH0
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131126
Uptime	10.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 12 '17 at 00:51
Run Duration	150 Seconds
Run User	BGR-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	71% Very good	Memory 84.1 1-Core 90 2-Core 155 66% 110 Pts	4-Core 313 8-Core 480 49% 396 Pts	64-Core 490 30% 490 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 (SLI Disabled) 5,438 User benchmarks, average bench 40% Nvidia(10DE 095B) 2GB CLim: 1202 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 378.78 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 66.1 Reflection 37.4 Parallax 39.7 54% 47.7 fps	Gravity 25.1 Splatting 26.1 23% 25.6 fps
Poor: 28% Great: 47%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM830 128GB 13,767 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 55GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3D1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15551 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 933 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 93 93 222 (B2) Unknown 94 94 116 (B3) Unknown 94 94 216 (B4) Unknown 94 94 3816 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 9 (E8) Unknown 94 94 1900 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8736305302 (F2) Unknown 99 99 12725711048	56.3% Above average	Read 468 Write 305 Mixed 368 84% 380 MB/s	4K Read 17 4K Write 38.6 4K Mixed 10.6 60% 22.1 MB/s	DQ Read 18.4 DQ Write 43.8 DQ Mixed 10.4 14% 24.2 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 902GB free Firmware: HP35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 126257767 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 912 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 4799060476 (09) Power-on hours count 58 58 37634 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 424 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1726766201 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 786444 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 59 504627229 (C2) HDA temperature 29 41 30064771101 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 16 126257767 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	66.1% Good	Read 115 Write 115 Mixed 119 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.52 126% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 68%
WD WD1001FALS-00U9B0 1TB 3,876 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 106GB free Firmware: 0K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 227 222 8625 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4293 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 44 44 41492 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1407 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 443 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4288 (C2) HDA temperature 117 77 33 (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 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	46.7% Average	Read 90.5 Write 72.4 Mixed 76.5 60% 79.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 0.99 4K Mixed 0.33 76% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 46.7% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 16JTF51264AZ-1G4M 4x4GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	78.4% Very good	MC Read 30.4 MC Write 32.3 MC Mixed 28.4 87% 30.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 13.2 SC Mixed 11 36% 12.5 GB/s	Latency 73.3 55% 73.3 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 85%

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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	455x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	234x

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

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	53x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 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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Value: 86% - Excellent

Total price: $271

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 $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16