Alienware Area-51 R5

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 70% Battle cruiser	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle intensive workstation, and even full-fledged server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	78.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Very high background CPU (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51 R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0N4R4N
Memory	8.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190222
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 28 '19 at 16:14
Run Duration	102 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	43%

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PC Performing as expected (41^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i9-7900X-$462 19,432 User benchmarks, average bench 82% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 10 cores, 20 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	91.1% Outstanding	Memory 80 1-Core 152 2-Core 294 94% 175 Pts	4-Core 547 8-Core 1,073 96% 810 Pts	64-Core 1,859 115% 1,859 Pts
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Dell(1028 3301) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 425.31 Performing below potential (50^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.9% Very good	Lighting 98.9 Reflection 110 Parallax 91.6 81% 100 fps	MRender 92.1 Gravity 88.3 Splatting 95.4 76% 91.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 88%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2018)-$50 695,066 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 1.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: 0001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 25 55 46 55 66 173 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	64.5% Good	Read 155 Write 177 Mixed 57.2 SusWrite 69.9 84% 115 MB/s	4K Read 1.4 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.1 82% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 106%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 2x8GB 6,317 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	53.9% Above average	MC Read 18.6 MC Write 24.7 MC Mixed 15 56% 19.4 GB/s	SC Read 8.1 SC Write 22.5 SC Mixed 9.9 39% 13.5 GB/s	Latency 80.6 50% 80.6 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 53.9% Great: 92%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 83%

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Workstation 93%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R5

CPU
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	51x
Core i9-7900XIntel $462Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	34x
Core i7-9800XIntel $545Bench 83%, 4,003 samples	31x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	63x
RTX 2080-TiNvidia $441Bench 156%, 357,946 samples	42x
RTX 2080Nvidia $407Bench 124%, 316,424 samples	32x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	21x
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBToshiba $46Bench 145%, 33,719 samples	14x
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc401Bench 118%, 9,137 samples	11x

RAM
M378A1K43CB2-CTD 4x8GBSamsungBench 88%, 1,851 samples	12x
2x16GBUnknownBench 91%, 46,387 samples	10x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 2x8GBMicronBench 78%, 6,317 samples	8x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $734

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 $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