Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.8% 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	62.8% 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.

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	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170517
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 15 '17 at 00:15
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (80^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 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 92 1-Core 119 2-Core 231 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 700 69% 563 Pts	64-Core 868 54% 868 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	85.8% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 119 Parallax 106 90% 112 fps	MRender 93.5 Gravity 101 Splatting 91.5 78% 95.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM851 2.5 7mm 128GB 3,901 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 81GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT08D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1227 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 88 88 135 (B2) Unknown 100 1 0 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2174 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23766104302 (F2) Unknown 99 99 16577701005	62.8% Good	Read 496 Write 135 Mixed 214 61% 282 MB/s	4K Read 22.6 4K Write 61.8 4K Mixed 12.5 83% 32.3 MB/s	DQ Read 341 DQ Write 144 DQ Mixed 31.5 79% 172 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 76%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1TB free Firmware: MX4OABX0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 71 (03) Spinup time 154 154 17194221841 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1518 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 8167 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1222 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2998 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2998 (C2) HDA temperature 127 127 197569478699 (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 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 99 99 7917 (F1) Unknown 100 100 31191377990 (F2) Unknown 100 100 37035709471	91.9% Outstanding	Read 164 Write 156 Mixed 153 119% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 2.04 4K Mixed 0.22 92% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 108%
PNY USB 3.0 FD 32GB 1,207 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 29GB free, PID 00d2 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	30.3% Below average	Read 143 Write 36.7 Mixed 41.7 73% 73.8 MB/s	4K Read 6.22 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.02 24% 2.09 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 30.3% Great: 37%

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 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	MC Read 39.6 MC Write 40.4 MC Mixed 36.3 111% 38.8 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 22.1 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 64.1 62% 64.1 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 101%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	801x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	248x
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	131x
HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 4x4GBHynixBench 84%, 1,850 samples	129x
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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	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) $34	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