Alienware Aurora R7

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (10th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 90 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is 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	73.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Very high background CPU (60%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R7 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0VDT73
Memory	3 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171006
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 10 '18 at 02:36
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	60%

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PC Performing way below expectations (10^th 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 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	72.3% Very good	Memory 78.4 1-Core 100 2-Core 203 72% 127 Pts	4-Core 357 8-Core 573 57% 465 Pts	64-Core 613 38% 613 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 89%

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: 382.66 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.7% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 108 Parallax 89.4 84% 100 fps	MRender 94.4 Gravity 95.3 Splatting 87.8 75% 92.5 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Optane+931GBHDD 1TB 654 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 916GB free Firmware: 15.8 Max speed: Unknown Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 23% Great: 92%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 268GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 5 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 18 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 64 59 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 3 (F1) Unknown 99 99 490777174	73.7% Very good	Read 509 Write 345 Mixed 366 90% 407 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 63.2 4K Mixed 22 99% 36.7 MB/s	DQ Read 34.1 DQ Write 74.2 DQ Mixed 20.8 25% 43 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 134%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown M378A1K43CB2-CTD 1x8GB 1,612 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	39.1% Below average	MC Read 16.5 MC Write 12.5 MC Mixed 11.7 39% 13.6 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 10 SC Mixed 10.4 29% 10.3 GB/s	Latency 83.5 48% 83.5 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 39.1% Great: 48%

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

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System: Alienware Aurora R7

CPU
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	2,851x
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 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 $485Bench 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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Value: 70% - Very good

Total price: $633

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	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