Alienware X51 R3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 66% Battle cruiser	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 97.2%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	78.4% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

3 months ago, 3 months ago, 3 months ago, 2 months ago.

System	Alienware X51 R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 026CD3
Memory	5.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171211
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '18 at 11:09
Run Duration	88 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i5-6600K-$216 127,537 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	97.2% Outstanding	SC Int 129 SC Float 136 SC Mixed 132 106% 132 Pts	QC Int 496 QC Float 515 QC Mixed 506 115% 505 Pts	MC Int 503 MC Float 538 MC Mixed 518 78% 520 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 97.2% Great: 105%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 58,267 User benchmarks, average bench 75% EVGA(3842 1982) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	78.4% Very good	Lighting 249 Reflection 228 Parallax 242 76% 240 fps	MRender 165 Gravity 230 Splatting 160 80% 185 fps
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 87%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$50 15,473 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 444GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0004SDM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 49134544 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13755 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 26 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 34609520124 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 26944 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 37 8689 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032894 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 49 505151517 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 133 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 335 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 647977 (C2) HDA temperature 29 51 42949672989 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 47 33 49134544 (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 -30124900593962 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4144289423 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3145567878 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	53.1% Above average	Read 97.2 Write 88 Mixed 92.4 70% 92.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.36 89% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 2x4GB 2,221 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 2 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.2% Excellent	MC Read 32.9 MC Write 34.8 MC Mixed 27.6 91% 31.8 GB/s	SC Read 19.5 SC Write 32.7 SC Mixed 26.6 75% 26.3 GB/s	Latency 58.2 69% 58.2 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 80%

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

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 73%

Battleship

Workstation 48%

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System: Alienware X51 R3

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $314Bench 76%, 64,231 samples	368x
Core i5-6400Intel $176Bench 67%, 45,618 samples	274x
Core i7-6700KIntel $322Bench 89%, 205,071 samples	161x

GPU
GTX 960Nvidia $200Bench 40%, 144,980 samples	231x
GTX 970Nvidia $370Bench 63%, 325,830 samples	155x
GTX 745 (OEM)Nvidia $60Bench 12%, 8,559 samples	152x

SSD
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 117%, 4,610 samples	144x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $120Bench 115%, 223,355 samples	25x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 135%, 2,330 samples	25x

RAM
HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 2x4GBHynixBench 69%, 2,221 samples	287x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 4,748 samples	253x
M378A5143EB1-CPB 2x4GBSamsungBench 70%, 1,048 samples	33x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $514

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $320	Nvidia GTX 1070 $413	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $100
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $150	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $289	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $120
Intel Core i7-7700K $300	AMD RX 480 $280	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $136

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $160	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $44
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $945	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $55	HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB $219	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12