Alienware Area-51m

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 90.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	82.4% 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	209% 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	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.

System	Alienware Area-51m (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware Area-51m
Memory	54.2 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190522
Uptime	1.6 Days
Run Date	Jul 07 '19 at 19:13
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (41^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i9-9900K-$405 354,223 User benchmarks, average bench 98% U3E1, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	90.5% Outstanding	Memory 87.5 1-Core 135 2-Core 265 90% 163 Pts	4-Core 502 8-Core 946 86% 724 Pts	64-Core 1,551 96% 1,551 Pts
Poor: 89% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 104%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 3,498 User benchmarks, average bench 68% Dell(1028 08C4) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2295 MHz, MLim: 3600 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 430.86 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.4% Excellent	Lighting 101 Reflection 114 Parallax 98.8 82% 104 fps	MRender 138 Gravity 89.7 Splatting 85.7 83% 105 fps
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 77%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black SN750 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB (2019)-$37 109,999 User benchmarks, average bench 244% 303GB free (System drive) Firmware: 102000WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 813 844 850 856 855 855 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	209% Outstanding	Read 1,429 Write 1,715 Mixed 1,453 SusWrite 846 307% 1,361 MB/s	4K Read 37.4 4K Write 95.6 4K Mixed 51.4 173% 61.5 MB/s	DQ Read 861 DQ Write 1,232 DQ Mixed 899 721% 997 MB/s
Poor: 168% ↑ This bench: 209% Great: 297%
Seagate FireCuda 2.5" 1TB-$56 127,507 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 197GB free Firmware: 401000WD SusWrite @10s intervals: 301 419 451 458 457 457 MB/s Relative performance n/a - drive id incomplete or inconclusive		Read 490 Write 452 Mixed 392 SusWrite 424 326% 440 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 70.1 4K Mixed 41.1 7,211% 47.8 MB/s	DQ Read 358 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 250 2,504% 297 MB/s
Poor: 20% Great: 70%
Asmt ASM1156-PM 1TB 1,239 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 807GB free Firmware: 0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 117 126 128 127 127 127 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	70.1% Very good	Read 118 Write 129 Mixed 62.2 SusWrite 125 79% 108 MB/s	4K Read 1.7 4K Write 4.6 4K Mixed 1.3 300% 2.53 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 101%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance SODIM DDR4 2666 C18 4x16GB 245 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	77.1% Very good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 30.2 MC Mixed 23.9 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 32.8 SC Mixed 25.5 72% 25.1 GB/s	Latency 70 57% 70 ns
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 89%

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System: Alienware Area-51m

CPU
Core i9-9900KIntel $405Bench 98%, 354,223 samples	219x
Core i7-9700KIntel $275Bench 97%, 550,833 samples	186x
Core i7-9700Intel $250Bench 92%, 79,875 samples	101x

GPU
RTX 2080 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 112%, 4,380 samples	206x
GeForce RTX 2070NvidiaBench 89%, 5,557 samples	94x
RTX 2070 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 88%, 23,316 samples	82x

SSD
Raid 0 Volume 512GBIntelBench 191%, 18,578 samples	40x
Raid 0 Volume 1TBIntelBench 242%, 17,176 samples	38x
NVMe SK hynix 512GBPc400Bench 186%, 2,374 samples	19x

RAM
HMA82GS6JJR8N-VK 2x16GBUnknownBench 80%, 6,839 samples	46x
HMA81GS6JJR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 74%, 13,906 samples	24x
16ATF2G64HZ-2G6E1 2x16GBUnknownBench 79%, 7,078 samples	24x

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Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $405

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $177	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16