Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 81.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.3% 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	80.8% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150713
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 09 '17 at 19:56
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	81.2% Excellent	Memory 89.9 1-Core 104 2-Core 203 77% 133 Pts	4-Core 390 8-Core 657 64% 523 Pts	64-Core 806 50% 806 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 1996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing below potential (80^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83.3% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 114 Parallax 113 86% 111 fps	MRender 95.1 Gravity 99.1 Splatting 91 78% 95.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Savage 960GB-$397 1,581 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 522GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM02.H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1552 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 661 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 1512 (AD) Unknown 100 100 262167 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 17 (C2) HDA temperature 61 50 214749610023 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4554 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3902 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2432 (F4) Unknown 100 100 4 (F5) Unknown 100 100 23 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1220224	80.8% Excellent	Read 520 Write 473 Mixed 480 110% 491 MB/s	4K Read 16.6 4K Write 55.8 4K Mixed 12.6 71% 28.4 MB/s	DQ Read 249 DQ Write 217 DQ Mixed 60.6 92% 175 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 111%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 480GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 446GB free Firmware: 1.00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 9 9 9 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 465 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 257 (AB) Unknown 100 100 155011408 (AE) Unknown 100 100 19 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 7 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 2 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 285 (F2) Unknown 100 100 58 (F9) Unknown 100 100 9609786	90.3% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 438 Mixed 479 106% 477 MB/s	4K Read 21.6 4K Write 61.1 4K Mixed 25.6 98% 36.1 MB/s	DQ Read 301 DQ Write 286 DQ Mixed 84.5 121% 224 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 90.3% Great: 90%

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	92.9% Outstanding	MC Read 35.9 MC Write 38.1 MC Mixed 32.9 102% 35.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.5 SC Write 19.2 SC Mixed 19.2 50% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 67.3 59% 67.3 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 100%

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Workstation 72%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	810x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	249x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	200x

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 $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	133x
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 $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16