Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 27% Raft	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 25% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 84%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	20.7% 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	93.9% 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	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

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170320
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 07 '17 at 05:23
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84% Excellent	Memory 93 1-Core 114 2-Core 216 81% 141 Pts	4-Core 405 8-Core 634 64% 520 Pts	64-Core 889 55% 889 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 270-$140 47,409 User benchmarks, average bench 24% AMD(1002 0B04) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 14.201.1005.0 Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	20.7% Poor	Lighting 25.4 Reflection 29.6 Parallax 28.6 21% 27.8 fps	MRender 26.1 Gravity 15.7 Splatting 31.7 21% 24.5 fps
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 20.7% Great: 26%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 181GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3241 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1760 (B1) Unknown 99 99 55 (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 64 59 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 78 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11889707165	93.9% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 493 Mixed 429 107% 480 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 58.6 4K Mixed 30.2 117% 40 MB/s	DQ Read 229 DQ Write 99.5 DQ Mixed 52.4 68% 127 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 124%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 95GB free Firmware: 505ABBF1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 11845284 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 67585605375626 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2461 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 42 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 68 68723933215 (C2) HDA temperature 31 68 68723933215 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11845284 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11845284 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11845284 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 6059 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3458 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3458 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5577	53.6% Above average	Read 503 Write 141 Mixed 187 60% 277 MB/s	4K Read 19.7 4K Write 48.4 4K Mixed 14.8 74% 27.6 MB/s	DQ Read 68.9 DQ Write 55.4 DQ Mixed 25.5 29% 50 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 73%
Toshiba P300 3TB-$99 74,038 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2TB free Firmware: MX6O Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 151 151 34384970102 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 538 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 403 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 383 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 538 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 538 (C2) HDA temperature 157 157 180389871654 (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	101% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 166 Mixed 164 129% 172 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.19 91% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 108%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2TB free Firmware: MX4O 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 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 133 133 21492662568 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2941 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3301 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1827 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2942 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2942 (C2) HDA temperature 157 157 167504773155 (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 2103 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4296415225 (F2) Unknown 100 100 9424182452	103% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 177 Mixed 167 132% 175 MB/s	4K Read 1.08 4K Write 2.32 4K Mixed 0.23 114% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378A5143DB0-CPB 4x4GB 1,582 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	99.7% Outstanding	MC Read 39.5 MC Write 40.6 MC Mixed 36 111% 38.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 16 SC Mixed 19.4 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 62.1 64% 62.1 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 101%

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Workstation 72%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	811x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	249x
Core i7-5930KIntel $599Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	201x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	224x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	173x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	113x

SSD
PM851 2.5 7mm 128GBSamsungBench 58%, 3,901 samples	72x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 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	133x
M378A5143DB0-CPB 4x4GBSamsungBench 88%, 1,582 samples	130x

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Value: 113% - Outstanding

Total price: $325

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16