Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 90% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 84%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	114% 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	66.2% 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

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 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	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141001
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 06 '17 at 02:04
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5930K-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	84% Excellent	Memory 89.9 1-Core 117 2-Core 230 83% 146 Pts	4-Core 420 8-Core 727 69% 574 Pts	64-Core 906 56% 906 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Lighting 153 Reflection 154 Parallax 134 125% 147 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 146 Splatting 114 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM841N 2.5 7mm 256GB 2,088 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 17GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM03D0Q 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 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 811 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 92 92 256 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 9152 (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 13859944438 (F2) Unknown 99 99 9083771406	66.2% Good	Read 502 Write 157 Mixed 219 64% 293 MB/s	4K Read 23 4K Write 50.1 4K Mixed 20.5 88% 31.2 MB/s	DQ Read 337 DQ Write 118 DQ Mixed 63.7 90% 173 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 108%
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 (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 170 8275 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1037 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2234 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 812 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 177 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 19787 (C2) HDA temperature 121 109 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 208 (F1) Unknown 200 200 8939688144 (F2) Unknown 200 200 538693411	84.7% Excellent	Read 160 Write 136 Mixed 132 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.27 92% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 8ATF51264AZ-2G1A1 4x4GB 1,465 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	93% Outstanding	MC Read 35.2 MC Write 38.3 MC Mixed 32.7 101% 35.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.1 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 19.6 53% 18.5 GB/s	Latency 67.3 59% 67.3 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 101%

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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