Alienware Aurora-R3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 15% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 76.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	21.3% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware Aurora-R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 046MHW
Memory	5.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20110525
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 29 '18 at 03:11
Run Duration	352 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	23%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2300 19,722 User benchmarks, average bench 64% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.9% Very good	Memory 94.8 1-Core 87.1 2-Core 174 71% 119 Pts	4-Core 343 8-Core 344 46% 343 Pts	64-Core 344 21% 344 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-$170 123,956 User benchmarks, average bench 20% EVGA(3842 3069) 2GB CLim: 1280 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	21.3% Poor	Lighting 25 Reflection 24.3 Parallax 31.1 20% 26.8 fps	MRender 32.1 Gravity 28.7 Splatting 25.4 23% 28.7 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 21.3% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 446GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 1256 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6081 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 277270113 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 25088 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3034 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 60 606011428 (C2) HDA temperature 36 40 47244640292 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 22 1256 (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 52304111751980 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1541127859 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2171890419	61.3% Good	Read 102 Write 112 Mixed 17.3 56% 77 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 0.98 4K Mixed 0.72 127% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 88%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$39 55,121 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 372GB free (System drive) Firmware: 17.01H17 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 167 4183 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1582 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 44 44 41164 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1526 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 298 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1283 (C2) HDA temperature 106 102 41 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 48 48 38472 (F1) Unknown 200 200 80687616647 (F2) Unknown 200 200 123657795896	64.2% Good	Read 113 Write 111 Mixed 7.95 56% 77.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.33 88% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 74%
PNY USB 2.0 FD 16GB 1,002 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 11GB free, PID 00d4 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	5.33% Terrible	Read 21.9 Write 3.06 Mixed 4.65 9% 9.86 MB/s	4K Read 6.24 4K Write 0.006 4K Mixed 0.005 24% 2.08 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.33% Great: 10%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2x4GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	61.2% Good	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 22.6 MC Mixed 20 61% 21.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 16.3 SC Mixed 17.6 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 57.7 69% 57.7 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 61%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 78%

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Workstation 31%

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System: Alienware Aurora-R3

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	169x
Core i7-2600Intel $191Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	94x
Core i5-2300IntelBench 64%, 19,722 samples	28x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	49x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	34x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	30x

SSD
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	14x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	9x

RAM
M378B5273CH0 4x4GBSamsungBench 49%, 117 samples	13x
HMT351U6BFR8 4x4GBHynixBench 49%, 61 samples	9x
HMT41GU7BFR8 HMT351U6CFR8 HMT451U6DFR8 HMT351U6EFR8 20GBHynixBench 56%, 12 samples	9x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16