Alienware Aurora-R4

Performance Results


Gaming 21% Surfboard	Desktop 58% Gunboat	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (32nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 68 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 below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 49.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	34.3% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	73.9% 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.

System	Alienware Aurora-R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07JNH0
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131126
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 06 '16 at 21:52
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing below expectations (32^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 1.75 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	49.2% Average	Memory 76.3 1-Core 31.9 2-Core 63.4 40% 57.2 Pts	4-Core 122 8-Core 252 22% 187 Pts	64-Core 454 28% 454 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 49.2% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 770-$279 116,895 User benchmarks, average bench 34% PNY(196E 1033) 2GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6143 Performing below potential (62^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	34.3% Below average	Lighting 42.4 Reflection 37.9 Parallax 49.9 35% 43.4 fps	MRender 54.2 Gravity 36.9 Splatting 35.7 34% 42.3 fps
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 34.3% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 64GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q 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 1859 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 411 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 63 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 17 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3845480091	73.9% Very good	Read 500 Write 400 Mixed 415 98% 438 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 36.4 4K Mixed 19.8 86% 27.9 MB/s	DQ Read 86.8 DQ Write 72 DQ Mixed 16.6 30% 58.4 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$60 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 8324800 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1893 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 1463507 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1844 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 406 (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 75 66 420610073 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5105 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 73014444057 (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 -43675522432857 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2024620679 (F2) Unknown 100 253 13646614405	106% Outstanding	Read 188 Write 182 Mixed 166 134% 179 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.25 89% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT8G3D1869DT1TX0 2x8GB 40 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	43.9% Average	MC Read 17.5 MC Write 12.5 MC Mixed 20.2 48% 16.7 GB/s	SC Read 7.4 SC Write 4.4 SC Mixed 5.7 17% 5.83 GB/s	Latency 87.7 46% 87.7 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 43.9% Great: 66%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 47%

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System: Alienware Aurora-R4

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	580x
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 $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	53x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	51x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	45x

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: $272

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16