Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 77.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	37% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	10.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20141001
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Aug 05 '17 at 14:52
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing as expected (45^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 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	77.9% Very good	Memory 89.9 1-Core 110 2-Core 218 80% 139 Pts	4-Core 355 8-Core 668 61% 512 Pts	64-Core 850 53% 850 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Nvidia(10DE 1116) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	60.1% Good	Lighting 76 Reflection 79.7 Parallax 71.2 62% 75.7 fps	MRender 76.4 Gravity 69.9 Splatting 63.4 56% 69.9 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM851 2.5 7mm 128GB 3,901 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT08D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 617 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 84 84 189 (B2) Unknown 100 1 0 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2193 (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 26416600661 (F2) Unknown 99 99 13835149160	37% Below average	Read 407 Write 27.6 Mixed 71.6 36% 169 MB/s	4K Read 9.6 4K Write 25.5 4K Mixed 5.01 34% 13.4 MB/s	DQ Read 361 DQ Write 50.7 DQ Mixed 26.8 65% 146 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 37% Great: 76%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1.5TB free Firmware: MX4OABX0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 141 141 17199202545 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 736 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 7819 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 620 (C0) Power-off retract count 73 73 32659 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 73 73 32659 (C2) HDA temperature 152 152 180389740580 (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 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 6224 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4369504794 (F2) Unknown 100 100 7544760339	87.1% Excellent	Read 150 Write 154 Mixed 152 115% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 0.88 4K Mixed 0.17 62% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA451U6MFR8N-TF 4x4GB 415 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	93.2% Outstanding	MC Read 35.9 MC Write 38 MC Mixed 33.1 102% 35.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 20.1 SC Mixed 19.5 51% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 67.4 59% 67.4 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 100%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	802x
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	172x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	112x

SSD
PM851 2.5 7mm 128GBSamsungBench 58%, 3,901 samples	72x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	52x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	52x

RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 4x8GBHynixBench 83%, 2,656 samples	132x
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 $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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