Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 96% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	104% 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	71.8% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0FRTKJ
Memory	26.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160608
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 14 '18 at 11:22
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6950X-$499 6,135 User benchmarks, average bench 87% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 10 cores, 20 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	85.9% Excellent	Memory 88.9 1-Core 110 2-Core 221 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 884 78% 664 Pts	64-Core 1,448 90% 1,448 Pts
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Dell(1028 119E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 135 Reflection 145 Parallax 124 110% 134 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 131 Splatting 107 94% 116 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Liteon CV3-CE512-11 SATA 512GB 772 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: TC9110C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2746 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 696 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 566 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2784 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 59 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EE) Unknown 72 100 28 (F1) Unknown 100 100 25683093890 (F2) Unknown 100 100 38644939972	71.8% Very good	Read 398 Write 334 Mixed 500 92% 411 MB/s	4K Read 27.9 4K Write 43.7 4K Mixed 32.6 107% 34.7 MB/s	DQ Read 30.4 DQ Write 55.7 DQ Mixed 114 66% 66.6 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 101%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 3.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 185 176 7733 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 697 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7095 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 696 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 61 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 189 189 35337 (C2) HDA temperature 115 102 37 (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 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 430 (F1) Unknown 200 200 5877063510 (F2) Unknown 200 200 937390535	82.4% Excellent	Read 139 Write 148 Mixed 135 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 2.49 4K Mixed 0.24 103% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 4x8GB 2,656 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	122% Outstanding	MC Read 53.1 MC Write 51 MC Mixed 42.4 140% 48.8 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 18.3 SC Mixed 18.3 47% 16.4 GB/s	Latency 68.6 58% 68.6 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 115%

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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 $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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