Alienware Aurora R7

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	80% 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	98% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait 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.

System	Alienware Aurora R7 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0VDT73
Memory	3.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180209
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	Apr 30 '18 at 18:38
Run Duration	135 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700-$200 349,567 User benchmarks, average bench 87% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	95% Outstanding	Memory 89.4 1-Core 137 2-Core 274 92% 167 Pts	4-Core 541 8-Core 827 85% 684 Pts	64-Core 1,106 68% 1,106 Pts
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Dell(1028 3301) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing below potential (58^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80% Very good	Lighting 99.7 Reflection 112 Parallax 92.1 81% 101 fps	MRender 96 Gravity 94.2 Splatting 94 78% 94.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Micron 1100 SATA 512GB 5,508 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 416GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0DL003 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 95 95 119 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 40 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 164 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 5 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 19351 (C2) HDA temperature 59 37 270584053801 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EE) Unknown 100 100 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 32 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2350 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 0 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2395705923 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2251041772 (B3) Unknown 96 96 119	98% Outstanding	Read 488 Write 485 Mixed 483 108% 485 MB/s	4K Read 24.6 4K Write 73.6 4K Mixed 33.3 119% 43.8 MB/s	DQ Read 296 DQ Write 250 DQ Mixed 63.3 105% 203 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 100%
Samsung PM830 mSATA 256GB 9,379 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 238GB free Firmware: CXM02D1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12823 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 5796 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 82 82 636 (B2) Unknown 92 92 316 (B3) Unknown 93 93 570 (B4) Unknown 93 93 7494 (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 1 (E8) Unknown 92 92 3716 (F1) Unknown 212 212 28485352109 (F2) Unknown 125 125 43354101397	75.7% Very good	Read 480 Write 307 Mixed 414 89% 400 MB/s	4K Read 21.1 4K Write 65.8 4K Mixed 22.1 95% 36.3 MB/s	DQ Read 290 DQ Write 117 DQ Mixed 78.6 91% 162 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 80%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 931GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 80 64 112180590 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 28 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 551189 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 15 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 24 (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 62 59 638844966 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 28 (C2) HDA temperature 38 19 81604378662 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 5 1 112180590 (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 119644903964685 (F1) Unknown 100 253 237863483 (F2) Unknown 100 253 119157712	103% Outstanding	Read 189 Write 172 Mixed 143 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.96 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.32 101% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8ATF1G64AZ-2G6H1 1x8GB 737 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	44.3% Average	MC Read 17.5 MC Write 14.9 MC Mixed 11.3 42% 14.6 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 16.1 SC Mixed 14.6 43% 14.9 GB/s	Latency 68.1 59% 68.1 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 44.3% Great: 48%

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System: Alienware Aurora R7

CPU
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	2,851x
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	1,384x
Core i5-8400Intel $131Bench 82%, 312,220 samples	769x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,294x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,037x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	663x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	841x
SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 238%, 21,542 samples	163x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	153x

RAM
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6H1 2x8GBUnknownBench 78%, 8,965 samples	551x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 9,471 samples	548x
HMA81GU6CJR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 6,858 samples	491x

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Value: 70% - Very good

Total price: $633

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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