Alienware Aurora R7

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 45% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 87.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	62.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (20%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R7 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0VDT73
Memory	3.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180517
Uptime	11.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 12 '18 at 21:25
Run Duration	135 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	20%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8400-$131 312,220 User benchmarks, average bench 82% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Memory 85.7 1-Core 118 2-Core 240 82% 148 Pts	4-Core 479 8-Core 692 73% 586 Pts	64-Core 707 44% 707 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Asus(1043 85B9) 3GB CLim: 2138 MHz, MLim: 2252 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62.4% Good	Lighting 77.2 Reflection 74 Parallax 63.5 63% 71.6 fps	MRender 79.4 Gravity 73.8 Splatting 73.1 62% 75.4 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 880GB free Firmware: CC61 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 33253480 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2031 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 278873618 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4766 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1871 (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 77 58 387055639 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 60 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4609 (C2) HDA temperature 23 42 55834574871 (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 -72743861087644 (F1) Unknown 100 253 31655819836 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1080515574404	109% Outstanding	Read 194 Write 186 Mixed 173 139% 184 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.23 81% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$34 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 467GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 80 63 106322943 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 516 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 101217202 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1358 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 365 (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 64 49 605159460 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 525 (C2) HDA temperature 36 10 42949672996 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 2 1 106322943 (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 98152887616844 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13170987875 (F2) Unknown 100 253 20147377281	72.3% Very good	Read 144 Write 108 Mixed 112 91% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.08 4K Write 0.59 4K Mixed 0.11 26% 0.26 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 113%

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 above expectations (73^rd percentile)	45.4% Average	MC Read 18.1 MC Write 16 MC Mixed 12.6 44% 15.6 GB/s	SC Read 12.4 SC Write 13.1 SC Mixed 13.1 37% 12.9 GB/s	Latency 71.4 56% 71.4 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 45.4% Great: 48%

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System: Alienware Aurora R7

CPU
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	2,851x
Core i7-8700KIntel $198Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	1,383x
Core i5-8400Intel $131Bench 82%, 312,220 samples	768x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,294x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,037x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 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 $76Bench 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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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