Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 80% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 90.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	93.5% 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	79.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (93%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	27.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170517
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 13 '18 at 22:50
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	93%

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PC Performing above expectations (74^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 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	90.1% Outstanding	Memory 92.6 1-Core 120 2-Core 240 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 472 8-Core 757 75% 614 Pts	64-Core 949 59% 949 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.5% Outstanding	Lighting 123 Reflection 116 Parallax 101 100% 113 fps	MRender 96 Gravity 95.9 Splatting 101 80% 97.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD 256GB-$150 2,567 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 238GB free Firmware: 2.0. Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 312 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 520 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 1 (AD) Unknown 100 100 8 (AE) Unknown 100 100 350 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 26 (E8) Unknown 96 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 83 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2664664896 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3784528375	47.6% Average	Read 460 Write 270 Mixed 328 78% 353 MB/s	4K Read 17.4 4K Write 12.3 4K Mixed 5.99 41% 11.9 MB/s	DQ Read 36.2 DQ Write 11 DQ Mixed 6.57 9% 17.9 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 54%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 164GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7443 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3954 (B1) Unknown 98 98 55 (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 71 51 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1745 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13739938581	100% Outstanding	Read 523 Write 501 Mixed 468 111% 497 MB/s	4K Read 32.7 4K Write 82.4 4K Mixed 26.9 128% 47.3 MB/s	DQ Read 263 DQ Write 217 DQ Mixed 77.4 102% 186 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 116%
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 155GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6410 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3806 (B1) Unknown 96 96 135 (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 72 52 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1664 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16015829825	79.2% Very good	Read 508 Write 374 Mixed 323 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 21.8 4K Write 63.3 4K Mixed 22.5 95% 35.8 MB/s	DQ Read 241 DQ Write 85.7 DQ Mixed 72 77% 133 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 86%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 600GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 22285088 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 405 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2401224 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 316 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 281 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 62 504692766 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 135 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1303 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 68719476766 (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 100 253 1133871366402 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3788957873 (F2) Unknown 100 253 220871571054	75.2% Very good	Read 112 Write 149 Mixed 132 99% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 5.31 4K Mixed 0.71 203% 2.21 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GB-$92 8,498 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	99.4% Outstanding	MC Read 38.9 MC Write 39.6 MC Mixed 35.1 108% 37.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 22 SC Mixed 21.6 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 63 64% 63 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 99.4% Great: 113%

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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 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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