Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 27% Raft	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 24% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 82.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	25.5% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	91.3% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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	5.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161011
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Feb 17 '17 at 09:15
Run Duration	192 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing as expected (47^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 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	82.4% Excellent	Memory 91 1-Core 97.9 2-Core 198 75% 129 Pts	4-Core 398 8-Core 638 64% 518 Pts	64-Core 800 50% 800 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 270-$140 47,409 User benchmarks, average bench 24% AMD(1002 0B04) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1701.0 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	25.5% Poor	Lighting 32 Reflection 29.5 Parallax 37.3 26% 32.9 fps	MRender 26.4 Gravity 26.4 Splatting 34.2 24% 29 fps
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 25.5% Great: 26%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 184GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11706 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 44 (B1) Unknown 98 98 84 (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 67 53 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22156582820	91.3% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 488 Mixed 509 112% 503 MB/s	4K Read 20.5 4K Write 31.4 4K Mixed 28.7 84% 26.9 MB/s	DQ Read 366 DQ Write 277 DQ Mixed 131 149% 258 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 124%
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 16GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18506 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2208 (B1) Unknown 96 96 145 (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 69 60 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 108 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13764729164	52.8% Above average	Read 479 Write 281 Mixed 351 82% 370 MB/s	4K Read 8.21 4K Write 20.9 4K Mixed 11.1 38% 13.4 MB/s	DQ Read 156 DQ Write 60.2 DQ Mixed 47.3 51% 88 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 52.8% Great: 76%
Seagate ST32000542AS 2TB-$100 19,960 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 2TB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 62989393 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5319 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 57 57 803251115477 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 24921 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2367 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 92 214751641652 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 74 51 437780506 (C2) HDA temperature 26 49 68719476762 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 29 62989393 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 24343874660517 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1085354175 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2105541027	64% Good	Read 110 Write 113 Mixed 106 82% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.47 114% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 64% Great: 61%
Toshiba MD04ACA500 5TB-$154 3,810 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 234GB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 8805 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1861 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 9701 (0A) Spinup retry count 137 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1002 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2185 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 45 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 8328 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 249109151773 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 93 93 3155 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 212 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	61.5% Good	Read 111 Write 104 Mixed 103 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.26 94% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 61.5% Great: 110%
Seagate ST32000542AS 2TB-$100 19,960 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 28GB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 239463512 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8662 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 50 44 2456772868702 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 22577 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2774 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 60130459712 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 54 9061400604 (C2) HDA temperature 28 46 77309411356 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 42 33 239463512 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -132199093346559 (F1) Unknown 100 253 790470832 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1325151198	36.8% Below average	Read 68.8 Write 59.2 Mixed 61.2 48% 63 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.42 90% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 36.8% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA451U6MFR8N-TF 2x4GB 269 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	64.9% Good	MC Read 29.1 MC Write 20.4 MC Mixed 20.3 66% 23.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.1 SC Write 18.6 SC Mixed 18 47% 16.6 GB/s	Latency 65.7 61% 65.7 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.9% Great: 76%

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Workstation 72%

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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 $133	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