Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 108% UFO	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 98% Nuclear submarine


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 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 85.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	123% 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	87% 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	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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 09G12C
Memory	59.3 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180209
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 07 '18 at 19:03
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	24%

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 i7-6800K-$103 50,196 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Memory 88.6 1-Core 119 2-Core 236 83% 148 Pts	4-Core 443 8-Core 714 71% 578 Pts	64-Core 921 57% 921 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Titan X Pascal-$286 8,692 User benchmarks, average bench 121% Dell(1028 119A) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2702 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (67^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	123% Outstanding	Lighting 166 Reflection 189 Parallax 170 135% 175 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 174 Splatting 131 116% 143 fps
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 132%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX500 2TB-$155 44,787 User benchmarks, average bench 108% 1.5TB free Firmware: M3CR010 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 9 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 2 (B4) Unknown 0 0 81 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 54 45 236223201326 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 764389090 (F7) Unknown 100 100 12226105 (F8) Unknown 100 100 8629779	87.3% Excellent	Read 507 Write 395 Mixed 409 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 29.1 4K Write 58.6 4K Mixed 32.8 117% 40.2 MB/s	DQ Read 175 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 17.7 49% 106 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 125%
Micron 1100 SATA 512GB 5,508 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 318GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0DL003 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3209 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 574 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 95 95 84 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 56 188979413030 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EE) Unknown 95 95 5 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2477 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 0 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 44560070953 (F2) Unknown 100 100 39063364332 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0	87% Excellent	Read 479 Write 478 Mixed 479 107% 478 MB/s	4K Read 21.5 4K Write 65 4K Mixed 28 103% 38.2 MB/s	DQ Read 162 DQ Write 151 DQ Mixed 53.5 68% 122 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 100%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$112 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 71 64 13252217 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 573 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 131383889 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 -112803021058900 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 572 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4295032835 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 61 605421604 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 73 73 54835 (C2) HDA temperature 36 40 55834574884 (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 124180389431458 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10787861488 (F2) Unknown 100 253 13926909409	93.5% Outstanding	Read 163 Write 163 Mixed 126 112% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.29 96% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 105%
BUFFALO HD-PZFU3 2TB 25 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2TB free, PID 0289 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	51.4% Above average	Read 122 Write 128 Mixed 117 158% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.34 78% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 51.4% Great: 52%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA82GU6AFR8N-UH 4x16GB 222 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	MC Read 39.8 MC Write 52.8 MC Mixed 39.8 126% 44.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 20 SC Mixed 18.8 50% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 69 58% 69 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 121%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	812x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	250x
Core i7-5930KIntel $150Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	202x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	224x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	174x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	113x

SSD
PM851 2.5 7mm 128GBSamsungBench 58%, 3,901 samples	72x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	52x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	52x

RAM
HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 4x4GBHynixBench 84%, 1,850 samples	134x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 4x8GBHynixBench 83%, 2,656 samples	134x
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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $165	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16