Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 125% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 116% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	133% 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	201% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 09G12C
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170517
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 19 '17 at 23:26
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6850K-$115 29,279 User benchmarks, average bench 84% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	97% Outstanding	Memory 90.4 1-Core 144 2-Core 286 95% 174 Pts	4-Core 556 8-Core 893 89% 725 Pts	64-Core 1,124 70% 1,124 Pts
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 93%

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: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2977 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	133% Outstanding	Lighting 188 Reflection 205 Parallax 203 154% 199 fps	MRender 135 Gravity 182 Splatting 124 118% 147 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 133% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB 1TB 2,610 User benchmarks, average bench 155% 605GB free Firmware: BXV77D0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	138% Outstanding	Read 472 Write 908 Mixed 629 151% 670 MB/s	4K Read 26.9 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 33.1 141% 56.5 MB/s	DQ Read 446 DQ Write 481 DQ Mixed 175 211% 367 MB/s
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 138% Great: 201%
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 474GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3373 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2695 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 67 50 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 962 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7090764172	101% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 498 Mixed 513 114% 510 MB/s	4K Read 29.4 4K Write 88.7 4K Mixed 35.7 137% 51.3 MB/s	DQ Read 30.8 DQ Write 328 DQ Mixed 156 128% 172 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 124%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 66GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	201% Outstanding	Read 2,097 Write 772 Mixed 1,144 293% 1,338 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 44.7 168% 65.5 MB/s	DQ Read 485 DQ Write 322 DQ Mixed 221 214% 343 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 201% Great: 283%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 4TB 6,400 User benchmarks, average bench 159% 3.5TB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	161% Outstanding	Read 272 Write 287 Mixed 264 206% 274 MB/s	4K Read 3.06 4K Write 3.8 4K Mixed 0.4 242% 2.42 MB/s
Poor: 82% ↑ This bench: 161% Great: 236%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown KYXC0V-MIB 1x16GB 106 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	41.8% Average	MC Read 16.3 MC Write 13.2 MC Mixed 11.4 39% 13.6 GB/s	SC Read 12.9 SC Write 14.3 SC Mixed 14.5 40% 13.9 GB/s	Latency 66.7 60% 66.7 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 41.8% Great: 46%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	802x
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 $130Bench 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 $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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