Alienware Aurora-R4

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (30th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 70 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 72.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	69.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	69.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora-R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0FPV4P
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131126
Uptime	3.7 Days
Run Date	Jul 23 '16 at 19:27
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4820K-$110 23,169 User benchmarks, average bench 72% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	72.2% Very good	Memory 86.8 1-Core 100 2-Core 177 72% 121 Pts	4-Core 313 8-Core 444 48% 378 Pts	64-Core 498 31% 498 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 1151) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6822 Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	69.6% Good	Lighting 98.9 Reflection 60.4 Parallax 105 81% 88 fps	MRender 67.6 Gravity 47.2 Splatting 61.7 48% 58.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 69.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$72 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 64GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q 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 7362 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1789 (B1) Unknown 97 97 27 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 57 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 5 (EB) Unknown 99 99 266 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12883709187	69.8% Good	Read 397 Write 351 Mixed 313 79% 353 MB/s	4K Read 36.6 4K Write 58.6 4K Mixed 14.7 105% 36.6 MB/s	DQ Read 38.2 DQ Write 64.4 DQ Mixed 14.6 21% 39.1 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$37 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 209561384 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3169 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11268738 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7391 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1791 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 63 487587869 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 326 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 30084 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 55834574877 (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 56719338114984 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3521554176 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8437952461	89.7% Excellent	Read 165 Write 148 Mixed 144 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.31 82% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston K66GKY-ETF 99U5471-054.A00LF 16GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	54% Above average	MC Read 20.8 MC Write 18.4 MC Mixed 18.6 55% 19.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 13.3 SC Mixed 11.8 38% 13.3 GB/s	Latency 70.6 57% 70.6 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 54% Great: 59%

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

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Workstation 47%

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System: Alienware Aurora-R4

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	585x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	462x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	234x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	126x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	93x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	92x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	53x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	52x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	45x

RAM
HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 58%, 7,298 samples	124x
M378B5173DB0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 57%, 3,272 samples	58x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	57x

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Value: 56% - Above average

Total price: $415

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