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Alienware Aurora R5

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 78.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	101% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	171% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware Aurora R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 01NYPT
Memory	56.1 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170210
Uptime	7.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 02 '17 at 14:35
Run Duration	248 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	36%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$127 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	78.4% Very good	Memory 81 1-Core 125 2-Core 245 83% 150 Pts	4-Core 422 8-Core 524 61% 473 Pts	64-Core 543 34% 543 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Dell(1028 0729) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 21.20.16.4550 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	5.81% Terrible	Lighting 6.4 Reflection 8.73 Parallax 5.81 5% 6.98 fps	MRender 7.52 Gravity 5.27 Splatting 11.5 7% 8.1 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.81% Great: 6%
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Dell(1028 3366) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	101% Outstanding	Lighting 131 Reflection 140 Parallax 118 107% 130 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 123 Splatting 102 89% 109 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Nvme PC300 SK hy 1TB 1,303 User benchmarks, average bench 145% 761GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2000 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	171% Outstanding	Read 1,459 Write 929 Mixed 1,290 272% 1,226 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 98.5 4K Mixed 19.8 128% 50.6 MB/s	DQ Read 471 DQ Write 356 DQ Mixed 27.7 126% 285 MB/s
Poor: 85% ↑ This bench: 171% Great: 188%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$30 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 239GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 63 228096597 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 67 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 10199222 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2007 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 34 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 60 655753248 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 143 (C2) HDA temperature 32 18 77309411360 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 17 1 228096597 (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 19224273618896 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6934760045 (F2) Unknown 100 253 13328491650	70.5% Very good	Read 128 Write 118 Mixed 114 90% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.99 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.27 100% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 112%
Lexar USB Flash Drive 64GB 225 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 1GB free, PID a815 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	7.51% Terrible	Read 25.1 Write 9.58 Mixed 8.42 15% 14.4 MB/s	4K Read 7.48 4K Write 0.008 4K Mixed 0.009 28% 2.5 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 7.51% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF 4x16GB 226 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	64% Good	MC Read 22.4 MC Write 24.9 MC Mixed 20.9 65% 22.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 22.5 SC Mixed 19.3 54% 18.9 GB/s	Latency 78.7 51% 78.7 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 64% Great: 115%

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Workstation 49%

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System: Alienware Aurora R5

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $134Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,093x
Core i7-6700KIntel $127Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	389x
Core i5-6400Intel $62Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	261x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	631x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	330x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	193x

SSD
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc300Bench 119%, 4,485 samples	136x
NVMe LITEON 256GBCx2-8b256-q11Bench 168%, 2,143 samples	132x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	57x

RAM
HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF 1x16GBHynixBench 39%, 5,448 samples	316x
16ATF2G64AZ-2G1B1 1x16GBMicronBench 39%, 1,618 samples	127x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples	107x

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