Alienware Aurora R5

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80.7% 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	258% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 01NYPT
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160902
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Dec 21 '16 at 16:19
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.2% Excellent	Memory 88.1 1-Core 119 2-Core 231 83% 146 Pts	4-Core 433 8-Core 634 67% 534 Pts	64-Core 648 40% 648 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 80%

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: 376.33 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.7% Excellent	Lighting 101 Reflection 110 Parallax 93 82% 101 fps	MRender 94.8 Gravity 93.8 Splatting 97.7 78% 95.4 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$69 12,601 User benchmarks, average bench 205% 367GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	258% Outstanding	Read 1,939 Write 1,506 Mixed 1,612 375% 1,686 MB/s	4K Read 48.3 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 61.2 224% 82.2 MB/s	DQ Read 496 DQ Write 386 DQ Mixed 209 219% 364 MB/s
Poor: 136% ↑ This bench: 258% Great: 262%
Cx2-8b256-q11 NVMe LITEON 256GB 2,143 User benchmarks, average bench 168% 184GB free Firmware: 48811QC Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	98.2% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 185 Mixed 307 50% 221 MB/s	4K Read 44.3 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 53.2 197% 71.2 MB/s	DQ Read 520 DQ Write 356 DQ Mixed 184 206% 353 MB/s
Poor: 115% ↑ This bench: 98.2% Great: 208%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 628GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 72 64 20402805 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 136 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2538840 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 216 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 95 (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 63 58 639631397 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 139 (C2) HDA temperature 37 16 68719476773 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 11 1 20402805 (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 17759689769174 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1191148873 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1247247327	99.6% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 168 Mixed 119 116% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.35 104% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 99.6% Great: 112%
WD My Passport 0820 2TB 18,744 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 270GB free, PID 0820 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	36.3% Below average	Read 87.7 Write 87.7 Mixed 71.6 105% 82.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.19 56% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 36.3% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 2400 C10 2x8GB 1,021 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75% Very good	MC Read 27.2 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 23.5 76% 26.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 28.3 SC Mixed 23.4 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 69.4 58% 69.4 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 107%

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System: Alienware Aurora R5

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,037x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	375x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	246x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	590x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	312x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	189x

SSD
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc300Bench 119%, 4,485 samples	129x
NVMe LITEON 256GBCx2-8b256-q11Bench 168%, 2,143 samples	128x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	50x

RAM
HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF 1x16GBHynixBench 39%, 5,448 samples	299x
16ATF2G64AZ-2G1B1 1x16GBMicronBench 39%, 1,618 samples	120x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples	101x

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Value: 107% - Outstanding

Total price: $312

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) $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