Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (30th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 70 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 84.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	92% 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	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	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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	10 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150713
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Sep 19 '19 at 22:32
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	84.6% Excellent	Memory 85.7 1-Core 97.7 2-Core 225 76% 136 Pts	4-Core 449 8-Core 703 71% 576 Pts	64-Core 886 55% 886 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2080-$394 316,424 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 2183) CLim: 2175 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 436.30 Performing below potential (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	92% Outstanding	Lighting 98.9 Reflection 171 Parallax 141 81% 137 fps	MRender 179 Gravity 146 Splatting 108 114% 144 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 92% Great: 134%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 150 960GB-$190 3,375 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 173GB free Firmware: SAFZ12.3 SusWrite @10s intervals: 418 431 164 290 295 281 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	76.2% Very good	Read 450 Write 425 Mixed 339 SusWrite 313 86% 382 MB/s	4K Read 19.1 4K Write 43.3 4K Mixed 22.8 81% 28.4 MB/s	DQ Read 344 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 187 175% 273 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 103%
TOSHIBA-TR200 240GB 36,832 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 149GB free Firmware: SBFA12.4 SusWrite @10s intervals: 332 98 101 100 98 100 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	68.4% Good	Read 385 Write 115 Mixed 339 SusWrite 138 54% 244 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 55.1 4K Mixed 25 101% 35.4 MB/s	DQ Read 315 DQ Write 318 DQ Mixed 205 185% 279 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 90%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$50 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 370GB free (System drive) Firmware: MX4OABX0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 111 108 117 116 118 120 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	72.8% Very good	Read 138 Write 138 Mixed 34.2 SusWrite 115 77% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.6 137% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB-$80 31,610 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 49GB free Firmware: 3.ADG SusWrite @10s intervals: 49 49 50 50 50 50 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	29.3% Poor	Read 52.3 Write 56.2 Mixed 39 SusWrite 49.4 36% 49.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.8 144% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 29.3% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	65.3% Good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 21.1 MC Mixed 21.1 67% 23.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 19.3 52% 18.1 GB/s	Latency 71.5 56% 71.5 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 104%

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

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Workstation 72%

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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 $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 $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16