Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 83% Aircraft carrier


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 85.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very 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	250% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170517
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 13 '17 at 22:05
Run Duration	297 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

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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 i7-5930K-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	85.2% Excellent	Memory 87.1 1-Core 110 2-Core 212 78% 136 Pts	4-Core 448 8-Core 704 71% 576 Pts	64-Core 882 55% 882 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 133 Reflection 138 Parallax 123 108% 131 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 127 Splatting 103 92% 114 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$249 18,356 User benchmarks, average bench 279% 657GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	250% Outstanding	Read 2,405 Write 1,715 Mixed 1,900 446% 2,007 MB/s	4K Read 26.5 4K Write 65.5 4K Mixed 42.8 130% 44.9 MB/s	DQ Read 242 DQ Write 138 DQ Mixed 23.2 62% 134 MB/s
Poor: 168% ↑ This bench: 250% Great: 363%
Samsung PM851 2.5 7mm 128GB 3,901 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 119GB free Firmware: EXT07D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 384 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 66 66 407 (B2) Unknown 100 1 0 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2201 (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 76911509753 (F2) Unknown 99 99 31496696554	52.3% Above average	Read 480 Write 124 Mixed 203 58% 269 MB/s	4K Read 16.7 4K Write 37.7 4K Mixed 10.5 59% 21.6 MB/s	DQ Read 254 DQ Write 122 DQ Mixed 25.5 62% 134 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 52.3% Great: 76%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1.5TB free Firmware: MX4OABX0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 147 147 21491417350 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1016 (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 97 97 21492 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 382 (C0) Power-off retract count 54 54 55653 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 54 54 55653 (C2) HDA temperature 152 152 193274314788 (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 98 98 18698 (F1) Unknown 100 100 14632454089 (F2) Unknown 100 100 28560633651	98.5% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 168 Mixed 160 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 2.03 4K Mixed 0.16 88% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 98.5% Great: 108%
SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro 1GB 685 User benchmarks, average bench 4% 1GB free, PID 5406 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	4.89% Terrible	Read 16.9 Write 7.18 Mixed 9.72 13% 11.3 MB/s	4K Read 3.34 4K Write 0.03 4K Mixed 0.03 14% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 4.89% Great: 5%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 8ATF51264AZ-2G1A1 4x4GB 1,465 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	98.5% Outstanding	MC Read 38.2 MC Write 40.5 MC Mixed 35.2 108% 38 GB/s	SC Read 14.2 SC Write 20.6 SC Mixed 20.2 52% 18.3 GB/s	Latency 70.3 57% 70.3 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 98.5% 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