Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 89% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	106% 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	76.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	26.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170517
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 04 '18 at 09:37
Run Duration	169 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^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 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	88.8% Excellent	Memory 94.1 1-Core 120 2-Core 238 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 450 8-Core 739 73% 595 Pts	64-Core 934 58% 934 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 149 Reflection 117 Parallax 101 122% 122 fps	MRender 97.8 Gravity 97 Splatting 101 81% 98.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 238GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7333 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3774 (B1) Unknown 98 98 55 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 51 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1645 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13389512667	97.5% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 501 Mixed 465 110% 493 MB/s	4K Read 31.7 4K Write 84.9 4K Mixed 23.6 123% 46.7 MB/s	DQ Read 219 DQ Write 231 DQ Mixed 61.7 92% 171 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 97.5% Great: 116%
SanDisk SSD 256GB-$150 2,567 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 174GB free Firmware: 2.0. Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 299 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 343 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 1 (AD) Unknown 100 100 8 (AE) Unknown 100 100 239 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 26 (E8) Unknown 96 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 82 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2606672821 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3523391876	43.1% Average	Read 460 Write 212 Mixed 289 70% 321 MB/s	4K Read 17.8 4K Write 9.22 4K Mixed 5.1 38% 10.7 MB/s	DQ Read 29.3 DQ Write 8.61 DQ Mixed 5.85 8% 14.6 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 54%
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 143GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6216 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3626 (B1) Unknown 96 96 135 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 52 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1564 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15566740451	76.7% Very good	Read 511 Write 387 Mixed 395 96% 431 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 64 4K Mixed 16.6 89% 34.3 MB/s	DQ Read 214 DQ Write 73.7 DQ Mixed 61.8 67% 117 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 86%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 647GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 159078856 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 189 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 1268127 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 128 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 101 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 62 571867170 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 31 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 633 (C2) HDA temperature 34 40 73014444066 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -52974126628724 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2967983656 (F2) Unknown 100 253 207080056061	72.5% Very good	Read 108 Write 143 Mixed 119 93% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 5.24 4K Mixed 0.44 178% 2.15 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GB-$154 8,498 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2200 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 40.7 MC Write 40.5 MC Mixed 36.8 112% 39.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 22 SC Mixed 21.3 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 59.4 67% 59.4 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 113%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	803x
Core i7-6800KIntel $78Bench 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	172x
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	133x
HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 4x4GBHynixBench 84%, 1,850 samples	130x
M378A5143DB0-CPB 4x4GBSamsungBench 88%, 1,582 samples	129x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $530

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $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