Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 107% UFO	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 95% Nuclear submarine


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 86.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	121% 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	45.4% 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 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	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170517
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 11 '18 at 21:18
Run Duration	153 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Memory 92.1 1-Core 113 2-Core 224 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 437 8-Core 655 68% 546 Pts	64-Core 893 55% 893 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3609) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	121% Outstanding	Lighting 161 Reflection 192 Parallax 174 131% 176 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 175 Splatting 125 115% 142 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM851 2.5 7mm 256GB 2,656 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 15GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT08D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1610 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 91 91 106 (B2) Unknown 100 1 0 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 4408 (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 25763175442 (F2) Unknown 99 99 20411958242	45.4% Average	Read 460 Write 34.6 Mixed 57.4 39% 184 MB/s	4K Read 17.7 4K Write 36.9 4K Mixed 10.5 60% 21.7 MB/s	DQ Read 248 DQ Write 86.4 DQ Mixed 31.4 59% 122 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 45.4% Great: 90%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 3TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 178 7816 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1607 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7248 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1606 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 87 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 132 132 205460 (C2) HDA temperature 119 107 33 (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 1 (F0) Head flying hours 94 94 4831 (F1) Unknown 200 200 5222951649 (F2) Unknown 200 200 18937123804	76.3% Very good	Read 140 Write 125 Mixed 128 99% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.27 112% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 87%
Samsung HD642JJ 640GB-$70 13,060 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 536GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 86 86 5020 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9457 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 11591 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13397 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2150 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 55 403832856 (C2) HDA temperature 69 54 521273375 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 31123 (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 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	60.9% Good	Read 106 Write 105 Mixed 99.4 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.5 125% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378A5143DB0-CPB 4x4GB 1,582 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	99.5% Outstanding	MC Read 39 MC Write 40.2 MC Mixed 35.2 109% 38.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 19.6 SC Mixed 21.2 54% 18.7 GB/s	Latency 63.9 63% 63.9 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 101%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	807x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 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	173x
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	134x
HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 4x4GBHynixBench 84%, 1,850 samples	130x
M378A5143DB0-CPB 4x4GBSamsungBench 88%, 1,582 samples	130x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $530

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $15	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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