Alienware Area-51 R4

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	112% 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	223% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 (49%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware Area-51 R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0HJ5Y7
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180306
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	May 02 '18 at 23:52
Run Duration	224 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	49%

PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7800X-$216 22,334 User benchmarks, average bench 78% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	74.9% Very good	Memory 75.4 1-Core 118 2-Core 226 78% 140 Pts	4-Core 400 8-Core 697 66% 548 Pts	64-Core 928 58% 928 Pts
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Dell(1028 3600) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 387.95 Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	112% Outstanding	Lighting 139 Reflection 193 Parallax 177 114% 170 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 175 Splatting 128 117% 144 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 423GB free Firmware: 1B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	206% Outstanding	Read 1,819 Write 1,324 Mixed 1,237 324% 1,460 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 41.2 4K Mixed 25.7 99% 32.1 MB/s	DQ Read 558 DQ Write 455 DQ Mixed 135 203% 383 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 206% Great: 302%
Samsung MZVLW1T0HMLH-000L7 1TB 1,393 User benchmarks, average bench 210% 386GB free Firmware: 2L7QCXY7 Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	237% Outstanding	Read 2,109 Write 1,341 Mixed 1,373 355% 1,607 MB/s	4K Read 41.3 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 32.5 163% 61.5 MB/s	DQ Read 575 DQ Write 424 DQ Mixed 200 231% 400 MB/s
Poor: 118% ↑ This bench: 237% Great: 280%
Seagate Backup+ Desk 8TB 662 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 316GB free Firmware: 040B Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	15% Very poor	Read 121 Write 128 Mixed 78.1 24% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 10 4K Mixed 0.68 7% 3.8 MB/s	DQ Read 3.06 DQ Write 9.7 DQ Mixed 1.2 2% 4.65 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 15% Great: 18%
Samsung PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 7,214 User benchmarks, average bench 184% 194GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXB73D1Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	223% Outstanding	Read 1,822 Write 1,048 Mixed 1,198 299% 1,356 MB/s	4K Read 32.5 4K Write 125 4K Mixed 67.9 202% 75.1 MB/s	DQ Read 460 DQ Write 523 DQ Mixed 19.5 146% 334 MB/s
Poor: 107% ↑ This bench: 223% Great: 243%
Seagate Backup+ Desk 8TB 825 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 3TB free Firmware: 040B Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	52.9% Above average	Read 99 Write 83.5 Mixed 76.9 65% 86.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 6.66 4K Mixed 0.43 203% 2.62 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 89%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 718GB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 163568608 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 653 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 3680274 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1698 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 536 (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 64 56 606011428 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 224 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9123 (C2) HDA temperature 36 44 81604378660 (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 39968965658123 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10435049586 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2988129114261	86.6% Excellent	Read 150 Write 153 Mixed 148 113% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.22 87% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378A1K43CB2-CTD 2x8GB 29,586 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.7% Average	MC Read 14.6 MC Write 24.6 MC Mixed 14.5 51% 17.9 GB/s	SC Read 7.4 SC Write 21.2 SC Mixed 9.5 36% 12.7 GB/s	Latency 89.5 45% 89.5 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 96%

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Desktop 87%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R4

CPU
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	50x
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	28x
Core i9-7900XIntel $462Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	26x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	45x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	13x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	10x

SSD
PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 184%, 7,214 samples	8x
PC300 SK hy 512GBNvmeBench 131%, 3,574 samples	7x
hynix SC311 SATA 128GBSKBench 65%, 20,313 samples	7x

RAM
XJ69DF-HYA 4x8GBKingstonBench 106%, 164 samples	19x
16ATF2G64AZ-2G6H1 4x16GBMicronBench 122%, 84 samples	15x
M378A1K43CB2-CTD 4x8GBSamsungBench 88%, 1,851 samples	13x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $860

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