Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 83.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	80.2% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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 0FRTKJ
Memory	20.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160608
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Nov 19 '17 at 00:44
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6800K-$78 50,196 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	83.1% Excellent	Memory 87.9 1-Core 110 2-Core 223 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 422 8-Core 669 67% 546 Pts	64-Core 841 52% 841 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Dell(1028 119D) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.7% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 110 Parallax 94.8 83% 102 fps	MRender 95.9 Gravity 92.4 Splatting 92.8 77% 93.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Liteon CV3-CE128-11 SATA 128GB 643 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 5GB free (System drive) Firmware: TC7110B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2655 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1007 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 883245 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 672 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 61 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 218 (EE) Unknown 68 100 32 (F1) Unknown 100 100 8564 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6693	80.2% Excellent	Read 514 Write 419 Mixed 447 102% 460 MB/s	4K Read 31.5 4K Write 59.2 4K Mixed 13.4 96% 34.7 MB/s	DQ Read 24.5 DQ Write 264 DQ Mixed 88.6 85% 126 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 88%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 521GB free Firmware: MX4OABX0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 71 (03) Spinup time 128 128 21494235433 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1008 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 126 126 32 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4886 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1003 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 3445 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 3445 (C2) HDA temperature 134 134 201864445993 (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 4647 (F1) Unknown 100 100 15486712789 (F2) Unknown 100 100 13507354423	92.2% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 148 Mixed 140 115% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.21 82% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 4x8GB 2,656 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	MC Read 39.2 MC Write 50.8 MC Mixed 39.8 124% 43.3 GB/s	SC Read 12.5 SC Write 18.6 SC Mixed 18.4 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 69.7 57% 69.7 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 115%

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Desktop 81%

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Workstation 72%

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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 $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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Value: 69% - Good

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