Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	95.4% 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	43.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	10.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150713
Uptime	1.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 17 '17 at 19:18
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (48^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 2.95 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	75.9% Very good	Memory 80.5 1-Core 96.4 2-Core 197 71% 125 Pts	4-Core 384 8-Core 702 65% 543 Pts	64-Core 1,020 63% 1,020 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	95.4% Outstanding	Lighting 141 Reflection 142 Parallax 7.53 115% 96.7 fps	MRender 82.8 Gravity 8.2 Splatting 108 58% 66.5 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM851 2.5 7mm 512GB 527 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT08D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 504 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 90 90 119 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 1 8811 (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 41223803588 (F2) Unknown 99 99 93483410030	43.9% Average	Read 464 Write 44.4 Mixed 78.7 42% 196 MB/s	4K Read 16.3 4K Write 30.4 4K Mixed 11.4 55% 19.4 MB/s	DQ Read 224 DQ Write 51.7 DQ Mixed 11.2 41% 95.6 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 43.9% Great: 96%
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 (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 174 8075 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 503 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6408 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 503 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 27 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 189 189 35372 (C2) HDA temperature 121 107 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 100 100 500 (F1) Unknown 200 200 4066559843 (F2) Unknown 200 200 3773028388	81.7% Excellent	Read 149 Write 136 Mixed 134 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.23 90% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 87%
General USB Flash Disk 64GB 2,253 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 60GB free, PID 1000, Trusda U85 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	32.2% Below average	Read 108 Write 50.5 Mixed 57.4 82% 71.8 MB/s	4K Read 5.77 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 1.07 104% 2.73 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 32.2% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 4x4GB 1,850 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	97.3% Outstanding	MC Read 42 MC Write 38 MC Mixed 34.1 109% 38 GB/s	SC Read 12.9 SC Write 17.9 SC Mixed 18.9 47% 16.6 GB/s	Latency 79.7 50% 79.7 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 102%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	811x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	250x
Core i7-5930KIntel $150Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	202x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	224x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	173x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	113x

SSD
PM851 2.5 7mm 128GBSamsungBench 58%, 3,901 samples	72x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	52x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $51Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	52x

RAM
HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 4x4GBHynixBench 84%, 1,850 samples	134x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 4x8GBHynixBench 83%, 2,656 samples	134x
M378A5143DB0-CPB 4x4GBSamsungBench 88%, 1,582 samples	130x

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Value: 113% - Outstanding

Total price: $325

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16