Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 30% Raft	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 28% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 82%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	24.9% 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	92.7% 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 8 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.

Very high background CPU (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	13.9 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 11 '17 at 18:08
Run Duration	166 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	43%

PC Performing above expectations (64^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 (83^rd percentile)	82% Excellent	Memory 92.1 1-Core 118 2-Core 215 82% 142 Pts	4-Core 387 8-Core 659 64% 523 Pts	64-Core 898 56% 898 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 82% 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 above expectations (87^th percentile)	24.9% Poor	Lighting 30.6 Reflection 29.5 Parallax 35.1 25% 31.7 fps	MRender 26.4 Gravity 28.2 Splatting 34.2 25% 29.6 fps
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 24.9% Great: 26%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 164GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3266 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1785 (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 63 59 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 82 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12155622953	92.7% Outstanding	Read 522 Write 488 Mixed 433 107% 481 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 55.4 4K Mixed 30.6 115% 38.9 MB/s	DQ Read 229 DQ Write 77.4 DQ Mixed 38.7 59% 115 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 124%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 95GB free Firmware: 505ABBF1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3702064 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 -93690416589150 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2486 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 46 (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 3702064 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3702064 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3702064 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 6112 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3485 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3485 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5605	54.8% Above average	Read 515 Write 133 Mixed 182 60% 277 MB/s	4K Read 26 4K Write 46.3 4K Mixed 13.8 82% 28.7 MB/s	DQ Read 40.4 DQ Write 59.6 DQ Mixed 32.3 29% 44.1 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 54.8% Great: 73%
Toshiba P300 3TB-$100 74,038 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2TB free Firmware: MX6O Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 161 161 17201889655 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 565 (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 100 100 427 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 408 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 565 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 565 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 180389871652 (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	69.1% Good	Read 74.7 Write 166 Mixed 185 109% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.23 93% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 69.1% 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 138 138 17197367576 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2966 (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 3326 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1852 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2967 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2967 (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 2128 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4341426437 (F2) Unknown 100 100 9454934754	103% Outstanding	Read 188 Write 171 Mixed 171 133% 177 MB/s	4K Read 1.14 4K Write 2.24 4K Mixed 0.24 116% 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 (94^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 39.5 MC Write 40.5 MC Mixed 36.2 111% 38.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 21 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 63.9 63% 63.9 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 101%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	801x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	248x
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	172x
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	131x
HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 4x4GBHynixBench 84%, 1,850 samples	129x
M378A5143DB0-CPB 4x4GBSamsungBench 88%, 1,582 samples	129x

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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 $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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