Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (24th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 76 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	102% 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	59% 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.

Very high background CPU (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	6.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150713
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Apr 23 '17 at 21:52
Run Duration	180 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	31%

PC Performing below expectations (24^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, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	73.2% Very good	Memory 83.3 1-Core 99.7 2-Core 186 72% 123 Pts	4-Core 340 8-Core 533 54% 437 Pts	64-Core 741 46% 741 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Nvidia(10DE 120F) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 152 Parallax 130 110% 139 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 126 Splatting 99.5 89% 109 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM871 2.5 7mm 128GB 2,429 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 5GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 407 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 84 84 329 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 393 (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 58825609849 (F2) Unknown 99 99 19719243235	59% Above average	Read 450 Write 63.4 Mixed 108 44% 207 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 67.2 4K Mixed 19.7 95% 36.5 MB/s	DQ Read 324 DQ Write 70 DQ Mixed 41.2 70% 145 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 87%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$50 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 391GB free Firmware: MX4OABX0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 70 (03) Spinup time 126 126 25789530414 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 411 (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 99 99 7314 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 409 (C0) Power-off retract count 94 94 7805 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 7805 (C2) HDA temperature 141 141 188979478567 (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 6671 (F1) Unknown 100 100 16459641779 (F2) Unknown 100 100 41666297165	62.1% Good	Read 115 Write 101 Mixed 106 81% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.19 81% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 62.1% Great: 108%
Seagate STM3500418AS 500GB 8,252 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 148GB free Firmware: CC37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 207488333 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4580 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 175609466 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10095 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2290 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 721 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 56 51 823394348 (C2) HDA temperature 44 49 21474836524 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 26 24 207488333 (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 -117454470627625 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2970977068 (F2) Unknown 100 253 730575585	62.1% Good	Read 111 Write 105 Mixed 96.6 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.49 109% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 62.1% Great: 71%

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 below potential (17^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	90.1% Outstanding	MC Read 33.5 MC Write 38.4 MC Mixed 32.3 99% 34.7 GB/s	SC Read 12.2 SC Write 19 SC Mixed 18.2 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 74.7 54% 74.7 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 90.1% 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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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 $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