Alienware X51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	87.4% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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System	Alienware X51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0PGRP5
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150713
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 16 '16 at 21:04
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	28%

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PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	76.9% Very good	Memory 87.9 1-Core 109 2-Core 220 79% 139 Pts	4-Core 355 8-Core 587 58% 471 Pts	64-Core 583 36% 583 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% PNY(196E 119F) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 375.95 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	60.8% Good	Lighting 75.9 Reflection 75.5 Parallax 70.8 62% 74.1 fps	MRender 72.3 Gravity 70.4 Splatting 72.6 59% 71.8 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Liteonit LCS-256M6S 2.5 7mm 256GB 11,477 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 131GB free (System drive) Firmware: DC8110D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1126 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 230755 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1600 (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 380456 (F2) Unknown 100 100 654839	87.4% Excellent	Read 492 Write 417 Mixed 447 101% 452 MB/s	4K Read 30 4K Write 63.5 4K Mixed 18.6 103% 37.4 MB/s	DQ Read 272 DQ Write 271 DQ Mixed 17.8 83% 187 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 101%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 267GB free Firmware: 2AR20004 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 90 89 3063 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4986 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10193 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 14 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1125 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 1866363 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 63 63 375286 (C2) HDA temperature 63 44 240519086117 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 8260 (F1) Unknown 98 92 3340033 (F2) Unknown 95 93 7373531 (FE) Unknown 252 252 0	40.9% Average	Read 71.2 Write 71.2 Mixed 81 56% 74.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.24 68% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 40.9% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Nanya NT8GC64B8HB0NF-DI 2x8GB 542 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	59.2% Above average	MC Read 22.2 MC Write 21.5 MC Mixed 17.5 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 19.9 54% 18.8 GB/s	Latency 69.6 58% 69.6 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 59.2% Great: 60%

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System: Alienware X51 R2

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	447x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	429x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	185x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	181x
GTX 745 (OEM)Nvidia $60Bench 10%, 26,874 samples	150x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	123x

SSD
MX500 1TBCrucial $84Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	43x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	42x
LCS-256M6S 2.5 7mm 256GBLiteonitBench 83%, 11,477 samples	35x

RAM
HMT41GU6MFR8C-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 53%, 5,493 samples	95x
16JTF1G64AZ-1G6E1 2x8GBMicronBench 53%, 7,464 samples	77x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 2x4GBMicronBench 52%, 17,707 samples	73x

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Value: 86% - Excellent

Total price: $336

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	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) $35	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