Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 81.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	99.4% 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	75.6% 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.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 09G12C
Memory	23.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180209
Uptime	3.9 Days
Run Date	Jun 19 '18 at 13:22
Run Duration	286 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6800K-$103 50,196 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	81.1% Excellent	Memory 87.2 1-Core 111 2-Core 225 80% 141 Pts	4-Core 404 8-Core 669 65% 536 Pts	64-Core 857 53% 857 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Dell(1028 3366) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	99.4% Outstanding	Lighting 128 Reflection 139 Parallax 128 104% 132 fps	MRender 110 Gravity 122 Splatting 102 90% 111 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 99.4% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Synology iSCSI Storage 4.5TB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 4TB free Firmware: 4.0 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	10.2% Very poor	Read 49.7 Write 26.6 Mixed 53.5 10% 43.3 MB/s	4K Read 3.72 4K Write 8.61 4K Mixed 5.97 18% 6.1 MB/s	DQ Read 35.6 DQ Write 7.31 DQ Mixed 15.1 13% 19.3 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 10.2% Great: 64%
Synology iSCSI Storage 1TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 818GB free Firmware: 4.0 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	19.7% Very poor	Read 56.4 Write 103 Mixed 74.3 18% 77.8 MB/s	4K Read 10.2 4K Write 9.6 4K Mixed 8.86 32% 9.55 MB/s	DQ Read 35.2 DQ Write 24.5 DQ Mixed 16.4 16% 25.4 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 19.7% Great: 56%
Toshiba THNSNK512GCS8 SATA 512GB 160 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 111GB free (System drive) Firmware: K8DC4101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 100 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1041 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 199 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (AD) Unknown 196 196 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 96 96 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 100 (B4) Unknown 100 100 100 (B5) Unknown 100 100 100 (B6) Unknown 100 100 100 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 52 (C2) HDA temperature 66 57 184684183586 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (EE) Unknown 96 96 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 154317 (F2) Unknown 100 100 138663	75.6% Very good	Read 471 Write 324 Mixed 268 78% 354 MB/s	4K Read 16.3 4K Write 55.1 4K Mixed 25.4 86% 32.3 MB/s	DQ Read 250 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 54.2 88% 169 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 89%
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 (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 178 7700 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1436 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2042 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 898 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 148 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9821 (C2) HDA temperature 115 107 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 100 100 156 (F1) Unknown 200 200 1484105853 (F2) Unknown 200 200 1544507583	83.5% Excellent	Read 136 Write 155 Mixed 142 109% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.25 89% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 87%
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 (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 174 7908 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1418 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2062 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 898 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 149 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10735 (C2) HDA temperature 117 110 35 (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 100 100 187 (F1) Unknown 200 200 6178391667 (F2) Unknown 200 200 3125474948	82.7% Excellent	Read 141 Write 148 Mixed 146 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 2.14 4K Mixed 0.26 99% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 87%
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 above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 171 7950 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1439 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2036 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 898 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 148 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10041 (C2) HDA temperature 115 107 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 100 100 144 (F1) Unknown 200 200 1945896312 (F2) Unknown 200 200 1575445423	70.8% Very good	Read 111 Write 136 Mixed 128 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 2.49 4K Mixed 0.27 115% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 70.8% 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 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	MC Read 39.7 MC Write 50.5 MC Mixed 39.8 124% 43.3 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 18.7 SC Mixed 18.9 48% 16.8 GB/s	Latency 70.3 57% 70.3 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 115%

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Desktop 81%

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Workstation 72%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	811x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	249x
Core i7-5930KIntel $150Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	201x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	224x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	173x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	113x

SSD
PM851 2.5 7mm 128GBSamsungBench 58%, 3,901 samples	72x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 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	133x
M378A5143DB0-CPB 4x4GBSamsungBench 88%, 1,582 samples	130x

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Value: 113% - Outstanding

Total price: $325

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16