Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (90th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 10 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 87.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	64.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	63% 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.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1600 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161011
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 24 '17 at 22:06
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing way above expectations (90^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, 6 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Memory 92 1-Core 120 2-Core 228 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 452 8-Core 670 70% 561 Pts	64-Core 656 41% 656 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-X-$781 8,241 User benchmarks, average bench 59% AMD(1002 0B36) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.2.1 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	64.4% Good	Lighting 81.3 Reflection 57.1 Parallax 115 66% 84.4 fps	MRender 57.7 Gravity 90.4 Splatting 74 61% 74 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 65%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM851 2.5 7mm 128GB 3,901 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 69GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT07D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 657 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 87 87 154 (B2) Unknown 100 1 0 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2188 (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 21873069619 (F2) Unknown 99 99 8508238851	63% Good	Read 497 Write 127 Mixed 176 58% 267 MB/s	4K Read 23.9 4K Write 62 4K Mixed 13.5 86% 33.1 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 13 67% 159 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 76%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2TB free Firmware: MX4OABX0 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 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 148 148 21491613952 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2330 (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 10837 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 855 (C0) Power-off retract count 86 86 17437 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 17437 (C2) HDA temperature 177 177 184684249119 (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 99 99 9343 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9598149830 (F2) Unknown 100 100 7808504285	106% Outstanding	Read 188 Write 183 Mixed 170 136% 180 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.24 111% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 108%
Seagate ST32000641AS 2TB-$174 8,506 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2TB free Firmware: CC13 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 206276505 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4560 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 21158661 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 19887 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4229 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 2770296177289 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 46 538443808 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2564 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 4747 (C2) HDA temperature 32 54 73014444064 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 29 20 206276505 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -117660629043103 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2353844487 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3695161481	72.2% Very good	Read 128 Write 124 Mixed 121 94% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.58 129% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378A5143DB0-CPB 4x4GB 1,582 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	MC Read 43.6 MC Write 43.3 MC Mixed 40.1 121% 42.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 22.1 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 64.1 62% 64.1 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 110% 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 $125	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