Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	75.4% 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	74.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 10 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.

Run History

8 years ago, 8 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit couleurs, 1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit couleurs,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150713
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 26 '16 at 19:22
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing as expected (58^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-$599 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	69.9% Good	Memory 74.5 1-Core 98.9 2-Core 205 70% 126 Pts	4-Core 351 8-Core 737 64% 544 Pts	64-Core 951 59% 951 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Nvidia(10DE 1116) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5330 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	75.4% Very good	Lighting 104 Reflection 65.7 Parallax 53 84% 74.1 fps	MRender 89.2 Gravity 65.9 Splatting 62.2 58% 72.4 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Liteonit LCS-256L9S-11 2.5 7mm 256GB 4,915 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 147GB free (System drive) Firmware: HC8110E Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 37 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 1230 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1248 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9179 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6028	74.4% Very good	Read 459 Write 408 Mixed 424 96% 430 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 40.3 4K Mixed 15.9 78% 26.6 MB/s	DQ Read 171 DQ Write 196 DQ Mixed 51.9 76% 140 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 103%
WD WD40EZRX-00SPEB0 2TB 30 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 178 7950 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 47 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 49 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 30 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 20 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 266 (C2) HDA temperature 115 114 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 9 (F1) Unknown 200 200 218632209 (F2) Unknown 200 200 19593754	89.9% Excellent	Read 150 Write 163 Mixed 114 106% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.54 4K Mixed 0.29 117% 1.24 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 4x4GB 1,850 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	92.3% Outstanding	MC Read 36 MC Write 38.1 MC Mixed 33 102% 35.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 18.9 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 91.5 44% 91.5 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 92.3% Great: 102%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	814x
Core i7-6800KIntel $107Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	251x
Core i7-5930KIntel $599Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	204x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	224x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	174x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	114x

SSD
PM851 2.5 7mm 128GBSamsungBench 58%, 3,901 samples	73x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	52x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	52x

RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 4x8GBHynixBench 83%, 2,656 samples	136x
HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 4x4GBHynixBench 84%, 1,850 samples	135x
M378A5143DB0-CPB 4x4GBSamsungBench 88%, 1,582 samples	131x

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Value: 113% - Outstanding

Total price: $325

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $125	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $44	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16