Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 107% UFO	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 105% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 85.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	122% 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	68.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	29.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170320
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 31 '17 at 11:06
Run Duration	246 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5960X-$285 15,468 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	85.3% Excellent	Memory 91.4 1-Core 113 2-Core 217 81% 140 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 831 74% 629 Pts	64-Core 1,195 74% 1,195 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696); EVGA FTW3 11G-P4-6696-KR X2 SLI CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.36 Performing below potential (47^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	122% Outstanding	Lighting 166 Reflection 194 Parallax 201 136% 187 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 176 Splatting 120 114% 141 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 926GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12245 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1110 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 70 56 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 91 (F1) Unknown 99 99 365195488	77.5% Very good	Read 500 Write 345 Mixed 360 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 26.6 4K Write 34.9 4K Mixed 21.7 87% 27.7 MB/s	DQ Read 254 DQ Write 201 DQ Mixed 89.2 104% 181 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 126%
Samsung PM851 2.5 7mm 512GB 527 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 307GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT07D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1131 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 91 91 103 (B2) Unknown 100 1 0 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B4) Unknown 100 1 8794 (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 62088828952 (F2) Unknown 99 99 76209348467	68.4% Good	Read 511 Write 307 Mixed 371 88% 396 MB/s	4K Read 17.9 4K Write 33.6 4K Mixed 15.9 65% 22.4 MB/s	DQ Read 270 DQ Write 162 DQ Mixed 43.3 79% 158 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 96%
WD Green 6TB (2014)-$223 4,204 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 5.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 238 191 7083 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1118 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6978 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1111 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 88 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8337 (C2) HDA temperature 119 106 33 (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	94.7% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 160 Mixed 156 122% 162 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 2.41 4K Mixed 0.28 106% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 98%
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 way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 217 177 6125 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1139 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8361 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1132 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 91 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 158 158 126658 (C2) HDA temperature 120 110 32 (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 99 99 1037 (F1) Unknown 200 200 6421613804 (F2) Unknown 200 200 10031730240	88.5% Excellent	Read 169 Write 139 Mixed 137 112% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.21 83% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 87%
WD Green 6TB (2014)-$223 4,204 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 244 195 6800 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1135 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9578 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1128 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 92 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 155 155 137850 (C2) HDA temperature 117 104 35 (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	73.1% Very good	Read 134 Write 120 Mixed 123 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 2.37 4K Mixed 0.24 102% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 98%
Seagate Backup+ SL 1TB 401 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 878GB free Firmware: 0412 Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	20.1% Poor	Read 34.6 Write 35 Mixed 35.3 26% 35 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.34 89% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 20.1% Great: 56%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378A1G43DB0-CPB 4x8GB 1,560 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	117% Outstanding	MC Read 50.9 MC Write 44 MC Mixed 43 131% 46 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 21 56% 19.5 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 111%

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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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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