Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Yacht	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	45.8% 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 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.

High background CPU (30%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20141001
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Jun 21 '17 at 15:26
Run Duration	292 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	30%

PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 (80^th percentile)	80.5% Excellent	Memory 93.5 1-Core 74.5 2-Core 164 67% 111 Pts	4-Core 364 8-Core 661 62% 512 Pts	64-Core 836 52% 836 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Nvidia(10DE 1116) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	60.2% Good	Lighting 76.1 Reflection 78.9 Parallax 72 62% 75.7 fps	MRender 77.4 Gravity 69.3 Splatting 63.7 57% 70.1 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM851 2.5 7mm 256GB 2,656 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 89GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT08D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4934 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 89 89 129 (B2) Unknown 100 1 0 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 4369 (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 39564321108 (F2) Unknown 99 99 20635990637	45.8% Average	Read 457 Write 56.4 Mixed 89 43% 201 MB/s	4K Read 18.6 4K Write 37.4 4K Mixed 9.8 60% 21.9 MB/s	DQ Read 218 DQ Write 73.4 DQ Mixed 29.7 52% 107 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 45.8% Great: 90%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 3.5TB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 166 8208 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5081 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6714 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4922 (C0) Power-off retract count 195 195 4148 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 131 131 207323 (C2) HDA temperature 120 109 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 94 94 4472 (F1) Unknown 200 200 2830598762 (F2) Unknown 200 200 13561280569	80.7% Excellent	Read 139 Write 142 Mixed 137 105% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.24 103% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 87%
Seagate FA GoFlex Desk 2TB 2,127 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 244GB free, PID 5071 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	14.4% Very poor	Read 36.5 Write 36 Mixed 10.6 33% 27.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 0.37 4K Mixed 0.18 21% 0.43 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 14.4% Great: 18%
HP External HDD 999GB 996 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 193GB free, PID 4607 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	17.2% Very poor	Read 36.2 Write 34.4 Mixed 13.5 34% 28 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.16 55% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 17.2% Great: 20%
Maxtor OneTouch II 300GB 134 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 28GB free, PID 7100 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	17% Very poor	Read 14.5 Write 17.1 Mixed 12.2 19% 14.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 3.61 4K Mixed 0.17 130% 1.38 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 17% Great: 29%

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 (40^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	92.9% Outstanding	MC Read 35.5 MC Write 38.3 MC Mixed 33.1 102% 35.6 GB/s	SC Read 11.5 SC Write 17.1 SC Mixed 20 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 60.9 66% 60.9 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 100%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	803x
Core i7-6800KIntel $78Bench 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	172x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	112x

SSD
PM851 2.5 7mm 128GBSamsungBench 58%, 3,901 samples	72x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	52x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	52x

RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 4x8GBHynixBench 83%, 2,656 samples	133x
HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 4x4GBHynixBench 84%, 1,850 samples	130x
M378A5143DB0-CPB 4x4GBSamsungBench 88%, 1,582 samples	129x

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Total price: $530

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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