Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 31% Sail boat	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 30% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	34.9% 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	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 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160427
Uptime	17 Days
Run Date	Sep 25 '18 at 15:46
Run Duration	129 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	76.5% Very good	Memory 83.1 1-Core 76.2 2-Core 189 66% 116 Pts	4-Core 375 8-Core 713 65% 544 Pts	64-Core 900 56% 900 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% Gigabyte(1458 36BE) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 398.82 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	34.9% Below average	Lighting 45.3 Reflection 43.5 Parallax 38.9 37% 42.5 fps	MRender 39.5 Gravity 39.7 Splatting 35 31% 38.1 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 34.9% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Ultimate SU800 512GB-$82 31,280 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 300GB free Firmware: Q091 SusWrite @10s intervals: 443 441 440 439 438 438 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	111% Outstanding	Read 477 Write 436 Mixed 414 SusWrite 440 100% 442 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 83.2 4K Mixed 46.2 157% 55 MB/s	DQ Read 390 DQ Write 340 DQ Mixed 296 241% 342 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 127%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$50 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 966GB free (System drive) Firmware: MX4O SusWrite @10s intervals: 135 121 17 6.9 4.9 4.2 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	63% Good	Read 171 Write 154 Mixed 21.7 SusWrite 48.2 71% 98.7 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.5 137% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GB 49,673 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	59.6% Above average	MC Read 27.1 MC Write 18.9 MC Mixed 18.8 62% 21.6 GB/s	SC Read 12.6 SC Write 16.1 SC Mixed 15.2 42% 14.6 GB/s	Latency 74.9 53% 74.9 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 59.6% Great: 80%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Workstation 72%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	807x
Core i7-6800KIntel $78Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	249x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	198x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	224x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	173x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	112x

SSD
PM851 2.5 7mm 128GBSamsungBench 58%, 3,901 samples	72x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	52x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	52x

RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 4x8GBHynixBench 83%, 2,656 samples	134x
HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 4x4GBHynixBench 84%, 1,850 samples	130x
M378A5143DB0-CPB 4x4GBSamsungBench 88%, 1,582 samples	130x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $530

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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