Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 95% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% 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	82.1% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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 (82%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 09G12C
Memory	22.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161011
Uptime	4 Days
Run Date	Feb 06 '17 at 18:21
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	82%

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6950X-$499 6,135 User benchmarks, average bench 87% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 10 cores, 20 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	83.5% Excellent	Memory 83 1-Core 118 2-Core 235 81% 145 Pts	4-Core 451 8-Core 765 74% 608 Pts	64-Core 1,412 87% 1,412 Pts
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Titan X Pascal-$286 8,692 User benchmarks, average bench 121% Dell(1028 119A) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	108% Outstanding	Lighting 132 Reflection 161 Parallax 187 108% 160 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 168 Splatting 131 115% 141 fps
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 132%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Micron 1100 SATA 512GB 5,508 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 395GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0DL002 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 134 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 31 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 3 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 61 167504642080 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EE) Unknown 100 100 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2465 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 0 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2037673941 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1357966676 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0	82.1% Excellent	Read 487 Write 412 Mixed 485 103% 461 MB/s	4K Read 15.3 4K Write 27.4 4K Mixed 29.4 75% 24 MB/s	DQ Read 315 DQ Write 270 DQ Mixed 66.5 112% 217 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 100%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 3.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 177 8141 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 31 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 135 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 31 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 475 (C2) HDA temperature 120 115 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 8 (F1) Unknown 200 200 862258657 (F2) Unknown 200 200 448538111	86.8% Excellent	Read 158 Write 145 Mixed 134 109% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.22 83% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 4x8GB 2,656 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	115% Outstanding	MC Read 47.7 MC Write 47.6 MC Mixed 41.4 130% 45.6 GB/s	SC Read 12.3 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 18.8 48% 16.8 GB/s	Latency 75.2 53% 75.2 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 115%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	807x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 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 $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 $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16