Alienware Aurora R6

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 82%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	93.2% 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	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.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R6 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07HV66
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180713
Uptime	100.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 25 '20 at 02:27
Run Duration	163 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	82% Excellent	Memory 89.5 1-Core 114 2-Core 227 81% 143 Pts	4-Core 402 8-Core 624 63% 513 Pts	64-Core 649 40% 649 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Dell(1028 3366) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 442.50 Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	93.2% Outstanding	Lighting 119 Reflection 129 Parallax 112 97% 120 fps	MRender 104 Gravity 118 Splatting 97.6 86% 106 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 23,829 User benchmarks, average bench 109% 98GB free Firmware: 5KDA4103 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 321 227 227 246 226 227 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	152% Outstanding	Read 1,113 Write 746 Mixed 741 SusWrite 246 158% 711 MB/s	4K Read 41 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 56.2 199% 73.5 MB/s	DQ Read 840 DQ Write 528 DQ Mixed 727 530% 698 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 152% Great: 141%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 441GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 23 30 16 56 41 22 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	60.5% Good	Read 180 Write 121 Mixed 67 SusWrite 31.1 73% 99.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.3 74% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.9% Good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 26.9 MC Mixed 20.4 71% 24.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.2 SC Write 24.9 SC Mixed 21.2 58% 20.4 GB/s	Latency 67.9 59% 67.9 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 104%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 64%

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Desktop 83%

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Workstation 55%

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System: Alienware Aurora R6

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	1,330x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	449x
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	261x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	696x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	458x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	178x

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	389x
THNSN5512GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBToshibaBench 122%, 19,561 samples	58x
PC300 SK hy 256GBNvmeBench 113%, 3,798 samples	48x

RAM
HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBHynixBench 74%, 20,415 samples	228x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G3B1 2x8GBMicronBench 73%, 7,552 samples	158x
M378A1K43CB2-CRC 2x8GBSamsungBench 74%, 24,860 samples	75x

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Value: 112% - Outstanding

Total price: $299

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