Alienware Area-51 R5

Performance Results


Gaming 105% UFO	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 114% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	129% 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	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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51 R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0N4R4N
Memory	50.1 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190222
Uptime	7.6 Days
Run Date	Jun 21 '19 at 02:32
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i9-7920X-$250 5,430 User benchmarks, average bench 82% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 12 cores, 24 threads Base clock 2.9 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	79.2% Very good	Memory 71.3 1-Core 119 2-Core 234 77% 141 Pts	4-Core 467 8-Core 797 77% 632 Pts	64-Core 1,692 105% 1,692 Pts
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 91%

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: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2852 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 430.86 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Lighting 192 Reflection 153 Parallax 151 157% 165 fps	MRender 107 Gravity 147 Splatting 103 96% 119 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Nvme PC401 SK hy 1TB 505 User benchmarks, average bench 179% 834GB free Firmware: 80003E00 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1152 1182 1165 1163 1162 1163 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	232% Outstanding	Read 1,455 Write 1304 Mixed 1,326 SusWrite 1,164 295% 1,312 MB/s	4K Read 42.1 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 58.5 196% 69.7 MB/s	DQ Read 970 DQ Write 902 DQ Mixed 955 712% 942 MB/s
Poor: 102% ↑ This bench: 232% Great: 234%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 938GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC27 SusWrite @10s intervals: 144 129 147 159 62 80 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	79.7% Very good	Read 158 Write 160 Mixed 82.3 SusWrite 120 95% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.8 144% 1 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston XRMWRN-HYA 4x16GB 133 User benchmarks, average bench 118% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	90.8% Outstanding	MC Read 30.7 MC Write 49.3 MC Mixed 29.3 104% 36.4 GB/s	SC Read 6.5 SC Write 20.5 SC Mixed 9.4 35% 12.1 GB/s	Latency 98.4 41% 98.4 ns
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 143%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 99%

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Desktop 83%

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Workstation 93%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R5

CPU
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	51x
Core i9-7900XIntel $455Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	34x
Core i7-9800XIntel $545Bench 83%, 4,003 samples	31x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	63x
RTX 2080-TiNvidia $441Bench 156%, 357,946 samples	42x
RTX 2080Nvidia $407Bench 124%, 316,424 samples	32x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	21x
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBToshiba $46Bench 145%, 33,719 samples	14x
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc401Bench 118%, 9,137 samples	11x

RAM
M378A1K43CB2-CTD 4x8GBSamsungBench 88%, 1,851 samples	12x
2x16GBUnknownBench 91%, 46,387 samples	10x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 2x8GBMicronBench 78%, 6,317 samples	8x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $734

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