Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 91% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	129% 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	131% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	8.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170517
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Oct 15 '17 at 22:10
Run Duration	285 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (64^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 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	76.5% Very good	Memory 91.9 1-Core 95.4 2-Core 174 72% 120 Pts	4-Core 330 8-Core 599 56% 465 Pts	64-Core 760 47% 760 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Lighting 177 Reflection 205 Parallax 182 144% 188 fps	MRender 131 Gravity 179 Splatting 129 118% 146 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Plextor M8Pe NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$110 2,806 User benchmarks, average bench 180% 116GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.06 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	131% Outstanding	Read 1,387 Write 570 Mixed 653 190% 870 MB/s	4K Read 41.2 4K Write 74.2 4K Mixed 21.1 129% 45.5 MB/s	DQ Read 43.1 DQ Write 82.5 DQ Mixed 20.7 28% 48.8 MB/s
Poor: 125% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 215%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 32GB free Firmware: EXM01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10736 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1005 (B1) Unknown 98 98 86 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 1 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 49 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 116 (F1) Unknown 99 99 31502287413	110% Outstanding	Read 527 Write 503 Mixed 510 115% 513 MB/s	4K Read 36.2 4K Write 99.4 4K Mixed 42.9 162% 59.5 MB/s	DQ Read 37.1 DQ Write 327 DQ Mixed 25.7 66% 130 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 124%
Intel 320 Series 80GB-$60 4,402 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 1GB free Firmware: 4PC10362 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 29875 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 232 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 23 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 119 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 102225 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 1617 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 86 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 1792506 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 102225 (F2) Unknown 100 100 679327	42.2% Average	Read 262 Write 91.4 Mixed 134 36% 163 MB/s	4K Read 20.7 4K Write 38.9 4K Mixed 15.4 72% 25 MB/s	DQ Read 152 DQ Write 57.4 DQ Mixed 30.9 42% 80.1 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 42.2% Great: 45%
Toshiba MQ01ABD100 1TB-$58 322,803 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 711GB free Firmware: AX0P2D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1519 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 7003 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1575 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 483 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 258 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 4330 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 249108889632 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 118007522 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 517660597 (F0) Head flying hours 87 87 5595 (F1) Unknown 100 100 28088010962 (F2) Unknown 100 100 13337315397 (FE) Unknown 100 100 3	54.1% Above average	Read 81.1 Write 107 Mixed 100 73% 96.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.2 68% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 54.1% Great: 62%
Discsoft Virtual 4GB 4GB free Firmware: 1.0 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples

SMI USB DISK 16GB 4,287 User benchmarks, average bench 10% 15GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	9.15% Terrible	Read 32.6 Write 12.4 Mixed 13.2 21% 19.4 MB/s	4K Read 7.15 4K Write 0.006 4K Mixed 0.003 27% 2.39 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 9.15% Great: 26%

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 above expectations (78^th percentile)	98.6% Outstanding	MC Read 38.7 MC Write 40.2 MC Mixed 35.4 109% 38.1 GB/s	SC Read 12.1 SC Write 18.3 SC Mixed 20.6 49% 17 GB/s	Latency 64.2 62% 64.2 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 101%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	802x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 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 $129Bench 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 $184	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