Alienware Aurora-R3

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 40% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (34th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 66 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 good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 65.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	75.1% 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	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	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Very high background CPU (80%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware Aurora-R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 046MHW
Memory	5.7 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110525
Uptime	2.5 Days
Run Date	Apr 16 '17 at 23:57
Run Duration	185 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	80%

PC Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600-$194 185,630 User benchmarks, average bench 67% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	65.6% Good	Memory 84.1 1-Core 80.4 2-Core 148 63% 104 Pts	4-Core 266 8-Core 314 38% 290 Pts	64-Core 381 24% 381 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4990) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	75.1% Very good	Lighting 95.4 Reflection 103 Parallax 94.2 78% 97.7 fps	MRender 87 Gravity 89.7 Splatting 81.8 70% 86.2 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 3GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1765 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 274 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 60 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 75 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2680477361	64.9% Good	Read 267 Write 213 Mixed 219 52% 233 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 43 4K Mixed 30.9 108% 34.7 MB/s	DQ Read 198 DQ Write 148 DQ Mixed 81.9 86% 142 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 64.9% Great: 124%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 680GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 170 2366 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7456 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5211 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1541 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 195 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7260 (C2) HDA temperature 105 99 38 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 94 94 5086 (F1) Unknown 200 200 1627376143 (F2) Unknown 200 200 12439927963	90.8% Outstanding	Read 156 Write 160 Mixed 153 118% 156 MB/s	4K Read 1.14 4K Write 2.91 4K Mixed 0.3 135% 1.45 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 109%
Seagate Momentus XT SSHD 2.5" 500GB-$35 11,469 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 85GB free (System drive) Firmware: DEM4 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 98 87 60496506 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2572 (05) Reallocated sector count 36 36 1315 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 658468211 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10938 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2598 (B8) Unknown 83 83 17 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 3354 (BC) Unknown 100 253 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 59 554958881 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 254 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 25533 (C2) HDA temperature 33 41 55834574881 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 35 60496506 (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 -66636417586687 (F1) Unknown 100 253 783194139 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1281327864 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	45.5% Average	Read 78.9 Write 79.7 Mixed 65.2 56% 74.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 0.64 4K Mixed 0.04 32% 0.35 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 45.5% Great: 58%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$31 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 77GB free Firmware: MS2OA7D0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 141 141 72 (03) Spinup time 126 126 12896829623 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 9570 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 110 110 36 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6754 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1548 (C0) Power-off retract count 92 92 9638 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 9638 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 184684445729 (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 3 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 5404 (F1) Unknown 100 100 18334108678 (F2) Unknown 100 100 28876575123	72.9% Very good	Read 121 Write 133 Mixed 143 100% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.17 68% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT351U6EFR8 Nanya NT2GC64B88B0 HMT351U6EFR8 Nanya NT2GC64B88B0 12GB 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 2048, 4096, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	45.5% Average	MC Read 15.4 MC Write 16.8 MC Mixed 14.6 45% 15.6 GB/s	SC Read 11.8 SC Write 15 SC Mixed 12.4 37% 13.1 GB/s	Latency 73.2 55% 73.2 ns

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 31%

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System: Alienware Aurora-R3

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	169x
Core i7-2600Intel $194Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	94x
Core i5-2300IntelBench 64%, 19,722 samples	28x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	49x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	34x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	30x

SSD
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	14x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	9x

RAM
M378B5273CH0 4x4GBSamsungBench 49%, 117 samples	13x
HMT351U6BFR8 4x4GBHynixBench 49%, 61 samples	9x
HMT41GU7BFR8 HMT351U6CFR8 HMT451U6DFR8 HMT351U6EFR8 20GBHynixBench 56%, 12 samples	9x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $585

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $37	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