Alienware Aurora R5

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 60% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	97.3% 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	86.8% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (33%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware Aurora R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 01NYPT
Memory	40.3 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170210
Uptime	4.8 Days
Run Date	Apr 23 '18 at 17:55
Run Duration	279 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	33%

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PC Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$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 as expected (41^st percentile)	71.5% Very good	Memory 79.9 1-Core 92.5 2-Core 180 68% 117 Pts	4-Core 344 8-Core 477 52% 410 Pts	64-Core 513 32% 513 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	97.3% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 139 Parallax 133 101% 132 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 123 Splatting 101 89% 110 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 2TB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18581 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 905 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 71 44 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 145 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3292368518
Poor: 80% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 2TB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17336 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 944 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 66 39 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 142 (F1) Unknown 99 99 25702259752
Poor: 80% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 2TB-$275 8,527 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 1TB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9078 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 310 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 61 46 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 161 (F1) Unknown 99 99 58839743483	86.8% Excellent	Read 500 Write 380 Mixed 402 95% 427 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 57.5 4K Mixed 26.1 114% 38.9 MB/s	DQ Read 271 DQ Write 147 DQ Mixed 88.4 98% 169 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 135%
PNY USB 2.0 FD 32GB 59 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 30GB free, PID 0056 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	8.3% Terrible	Read 31.1 Write 10.5 Mixed 9.77 18% 17.1 MB/s	4K Read 6.28 4K Write 0.006 4K Mixed 0.005 24% 2.1 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 8.3% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS16G4D240FSE.16FBD 4x16GB 406 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.7% Very good	MC Read 25.2 MC Write 30.2 MC Mixed 26.2 78% 27.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 28 SC Mixed 19.2 58% 20.4 GB/s	Latency 80.8 50% 80.8 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 98%

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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 $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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