Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 52% Yacht	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (27th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 73 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 below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 39.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	125% 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	70.7% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware
Memory	8.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141001
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 21 '20 at 07:11
Run Duration	154 Seconds
Run User	MYS-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing below expectations (27^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-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Relative performance (0^th percentile)	39.2% Below average	Memory 25.4 1-Core 75.7 2-Core 154 43% 84.9 Pts	4-Core 305 8-Core 299 41% 302 Pts	64-Core 369 23% 369 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 39.2% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3751) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2808 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 456.71 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	125% Outstanding	Lighting 174 Reflection 197 Parallax 184 142% 185 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 150 Splatting 120 109% 134 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM871 2.5 7mm 256GB 2,882 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 40GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02D0Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 253 248 117 108 86 78 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	Read 464 Write 299 Mixed 258 SusWrite 148 65% 293 MB/s	4K Read 15.3 4K Write 52.9 4K Mixed 29.3 89% 32.5 MB/s	DQ Read 384 DQ Write 290 DQ Mixed 242 206% 305 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 99%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 43GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 83 84 84 100 96 85 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	50.9% Above average	Read 88.6 Write 73.6 Mixed 47.2 SusWrite 88.7 55% 74.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.5 100% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2017)-$79 179,101 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 168GB free Firmware: 0001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 106 146 151 150 149 147 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	60% Good	Read 66.5 Write 65.2 Mixed 47.9 SusWrite 142 59% 80.3 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 4.7 4K Mixed 0.4 177% 2.07 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 90%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378A5143DB0-CPB 4x4GB 1,582 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	65.9% Good	MC Read 21.5 MC Write 33.5 MC Mixed 26.4 78% 27.1 GB/s	SC Read 5.7 SC Write 10.2 SC Mixed 8 23% 7.97 GB/s	Latency 283 14% 283 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 101%

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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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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	810x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	249x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	200x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	224x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	173x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	113x

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	133x
M378A5143DB0-CPB 4x4GBSamsungBench 88%, 1,582 samples	130x

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Value: 113% - Outstanding

Total price: $325

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16