Alienware X51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 69% 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	103% 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	63.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (47%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware X51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0PGRP5
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 09 '18 at 02:17
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	47%

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 i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	79.6% Very good	Memory 85.5 1-Core 100 2-Core 217 76% 134 Pts	4-Core 397 8-Core 594 62% 495 Pts	64-Core 592 37% 592 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Asus(1043 861E) CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2177 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	Lighting 133 Reflection 150 Parallax 125 108% 136 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 133 Splatting 113 95% 116 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM851 2.5 7mm 256GB 2,656 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT08D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 717 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 89 89 130 (B2) Unknown 100 1 0 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 4365 (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 31126155807 (F2) Unknown 99 99 28771134639	63.4% Good	Read 498 Write 119 Mixed 220 61% 279 MB/s	4K Read 25.5 4K Write 58.8 4K Mixed 13.1 86% 32.4 MB/s	DQ Read 334 DQ Write 170 DQ Mixed 36.8 85% 180 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 90%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 264GB free Firmware: 2BA30003 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 93 91 2293 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1136 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4532 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 8 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 694 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 1266030 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 62 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 70 70 308356 (C2) HDA temperature 64 46 231928954915 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 2428 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 4421 (F1) Unknown 98 94 3766895 (F2) Unknown 95 94 7975374 (FE) Unknown 252 252 0	43.8% Average	Read 72.5 Write 80 Mixed 76.3 58% 76.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.29 76% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 43.8% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B1G73DB0-CK0 2x8GB 9,947 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	57.5% Above average	MC Read 21.4 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 17 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 18.4 51% 18 GB/s	Latency 71.6 56% 71.6 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 57.5% Great: 60%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Workstation 36%

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System: Alienware X51 R2

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	447x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	429x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	185x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	181x
GTX 745 (OEM)Nvidia $60Bench 10%, 26,874 samples	150x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	123x

SSD
MX500 1TBCrucial $84Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	43x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	42x
LCS-256M6S 2.5 7mm 256GBLiteonitBench 83%, 11,477 samples	35x

RAM
HMT41GU6MFR8C-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 53%, 5,493 samples	95x
16JTF1G64AZ-1G6E1 2x8GBMicronBench 53%, 7,464 samples	77x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 2x4GBMicronBench 52%, 17,707 samples	73x

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Value: 86% - Excellent

Total price: $336

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