Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.2% 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	83.1% 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 09G12C
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161011
Uptime	2.6 Days
Run Date	May 29 '17 at 04:58
Run Duration	107 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6800K-$103 50,196 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Memory 87.9 1-Core 124 2-Core 248 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 482 8-Core 782 77% 632 Pts	64-Core 976 60% 976 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 90%

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: 375.63 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.2% Excellent	Lighting 101 Reflection 112 Parallax 95.8 82% 103 fps	MRender 93.1 Gravity 95.9 Splatting 98.6 79% 95.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk X400 2.5 7MM 128GB 1,555 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 15GB free (System drive) Firmware: X4130012 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 83 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 12 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 1 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 5139 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 76 65 279174053912 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 73015361553 (EE) Unknown 100 100 16747517 (F1) Unknown 253 253 492251325 (F2) Unknown 253 253 570532870	83.1% Excellent	Read 504 Write 275 Mixed 299 79% 359 MB/s	4K Read 29.4 4K Write 75.7 4K Mixed 22.2 113% 42.5 MB/s	DQ Read 317 DQ Write 251 DQ Mixed 49.6 101% 206 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 90%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1.5TB free Firmware: MX4OAC70 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 70 (03) Spinup time 128 128 25789268263 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 12 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 126 126 32 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 90 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 11 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 190 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 190 (C2) HDA temperature 183 183 154619936798 (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 82 (F1) Unknown 100 100 584448725 (F2) Unknown 100 100 274780892	98.4% Outstanding	Read 158 Write 185 Mixed 179 131% 174 MB/s	4K Read 1.04 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.25 110% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA82GU6AFR8N-UH 1x16GB 3,066 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2400 MHz Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	41.7% Average	MC Read 16.6 MC Write 13.3 MC Mixed 11.5 39% 13.8 GB/s	SC Read 13.1 SC Write 13.5 SC Mixed 13.3 38% 13.3 GB/s	Latency 69.6 57% 69.6 ns
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 41.7% Great: 47%

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Desktop 81%

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Workstation 72%

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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	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 $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $46

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