Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Destroyer	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	64.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	52.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160608
Uptime	10.6 Days
Run Date	Apr 05 '17 at 15:13
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5930K-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	Memory 92.1 1-Core 118 2-Core 218 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 722 68% 564 Pts	64-Core 922 57% 922 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E329) CLim: 1120 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.3.2 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	64.3% Good	Lighting 80 Reflection 61.7 Parallax 111 65% 84.3 fps	MRender 61.2 Gravity 84.6 Splatting 80.2 62% 75.4 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 60GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17887 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 750 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (B3) Unknown 100 100 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 67 54 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 80 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1608001977	80.9% Excellent	Read 507 Write 351 Mixed 351 89% 403 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 61.4 4K Mixed 21.9 112% 39.1 MB/s	DQ Read 38.9 DQ Write 232 DQ Mixed 74 75% 115 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 118%
Samsung PM851 2.5 7mm 128GB 3,901 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 36GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT08D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 113 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 92 92 90 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2207 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11058921845 (F2) Unknown 99 99 4822736065	52.9% Above average	Read 497 Write 39 Mixed 65.7 42% 200 MB/s	4K Read 22 4K Write 51.7 4K Mixed 11.6 76% 28.4 MB/s	DQ Read 354 DQ Write 40.8 DQ Mixed 27.1 63% 141 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 76%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$50 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1.5TB free Firmware: MX4OABX0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 71 (03) Spinup time 131 131 25789464855 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 436 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 15056 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 116 (C0) Power-off retract count 60 60 49168 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 60 60 49168 (C2) HDA temperature 152 152 180389740580 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (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 100 100 2201 (F1) Unknown 100 100 6485447830 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2195366210	103% Outstanding	Read 179 Write 180 Mixed 163 130% 174 MB/s	4K Read 1.07 4K Write 2.14 4K Mixed 0.24 110% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA451U6MFR8N-TF 4x4GB 415 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 39.7 MC Write 40.6 MC Mixed 36.2 111% 38.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 21.3 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 100%

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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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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 $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