Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 120% UFO	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 125% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	130% 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	82.3% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 09G12C
Memory	58.5 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, 3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161011
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 17 '17 at 22:44
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6950X-$499 6,135 User benchmarks, average bench 87% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 10 cores, 20 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	90.6% Outstanding	Memory 90.5 1-Core 117 2-Core 240 84% 149 Pts	4-Core 487 8-Core 966 86% 726 Pts	64-Core 1,583 98% 1,583 Pts
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 90.6% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Dell(1028 120F) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Lighting 188 Reflection 188 Parallax 174 153% 183 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 161 Splatting 118 108% 134 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SK hynix SC311 SATA 512GB 5,047 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 377GB free (System drive) Firmware: 70000P10 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 166 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 16 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5 (64) Unknown 100 100 11984 (A8) Unknown 253 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 253 253 0 (AF) Unknown 253 253 0 (B0) Unknown 253 253 0 (B1) Unknown 100 1 1 (B2) Unknown 253 253 0 (B3) Unknown 253 253 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1380 (B5) Unknown 253 253 0 (B6) Unknown 253 253 0 (B8) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 0 90196607006 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 253 253 0 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 94 74 1368 (D4) Unknown 100 100 27673 (E9) Unknown 1 1 100 (EA) Unknown 100 100 221196288 (F1) Unknown 100 100 290451725 (F2) Unknown 100 100 189967315	82.3% Excellent	Read 514 Write 490 Mixed 511 113% 505 MB/s	4K Read 18.3 4K Write 34.5 4K Mixed 16.1 67% 23 MB/s	DQ Read 293 DQ Write 233 DQ Mixed 102 120% 209 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 109%
Micron 1100 SATA 512GB 5,508 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 324GB free Firmware: M0DL002 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 178 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 52 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 3 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 63 158915035168 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EE) Unknown 100 100 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2478 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 0 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1648198420 (F2) Unknown 100 100 700091454 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0	75.9% Very good	Read 483 Write 480 Mixed 487 108% 483 MB/s	4K Read 12.7 4K Write 19.6 4K Mixed 19.5 55% 17.3 MB/s	DQ Read 215 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 62.4 91% 169 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 100%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 3.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 100 253 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 5 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 17 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 110 (C2) HDA temperature 115 115 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 3 (F1) Unknown 200 200 2967905 (F2) Unknown 200 200 6663686	86.3% Excellent	Read 151 Write 149 Mixed 140 110% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.28 108% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 87%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 3TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 100 253 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 5 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 17 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 173 (C2) HDA temperature 118 114 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 7 (F1) Unknown 200 200 2048899737 (F2) Unknown 200 200 45391367	75.5% Very good	Read 134 Write 129 Mixed 127 98% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 2.47 4K Mixed 0.28 113% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 525GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 100 144880440 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1607 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 3091074 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2836 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 710 (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 62 55 655622182 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 14 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4157 (C2) HDA temperature 38 45 77309411366 (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 117772298223948 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10030740455 (F2) Unknown 100 253 6479995700	100% Outstanding	Read 182 Write 169 Mixed 164 129% 171 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.22 86% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 114%

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 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	126% Outstanding	MC Read 54.7 MC Write 52.9 MC Mixed 42.1 143% 49.9 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 20.9 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 121%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	807x
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	173x
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	134x
HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 4x4GBHynixBench 84%, 1,850 samples	130x
M378A5143DB0-CPB 4x4GBSamsungBench 88%, 1,582 samples	130x

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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 $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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