Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 34% Sail boat	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 33% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 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 76.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	32.8% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	66.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XJKKD
Memory	25.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors, 1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150713
Uptime	1.9 Days
Run Date	Feb 16 '17 at 04:48
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing as expected (40^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 2.9 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	76.1% Very good	Memory 80.8 1-Core 97.4 2-Core 184 70% 121 Pts	4-Core 384 8-Core 704 65% 544 Pts	64-Core 1,018 63% 1,018 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 770-$279 116,895 User benchmarks, average bench 34% Nvidia(10DE 1033) 2GB CLim: 1202 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	32.8% Below average	Lighting 37.8 Reflection 33.2 Parallax 39.8 31% 36.9 fps	MRender 53.6 Gravity 48.6 Splatting 35.9 37% 46 fps
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 32.8% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Liteon LCH-512V2S-11 2.5 7mm 512GB 356 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 315GB free (System drive) Firmware: FC9110A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1889 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1161 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 39 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 137 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 402259 (F2) Unknown 100 100 332198	66.8% Good	Read 504 Write 397 Mixed 446 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 15.4 4K Write 28.9 4K Mixed 14 57% 19.5 MB/s	DQ Read 203 DQ Write 33.3 DQ Mixed 69.6 63% 102 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 105%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 902GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 188 185 41361 (03) Spinup time 185 176 7708 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6702 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11074 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1742 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 236 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 153 153 141423 (C2) HDA temperature 115 99 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 197 202 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 197 163 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 179 207 (F0) Head flying hours 94 94 4487 (F1) Unknown 200 200 19529343330 (F2) Unknown 200 200 35613303021	56.2% Above average	Read 99.9 Write 95.7 Mixed 96 73% 97.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.21 78% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378A1G43DB0-CPB 4x8GB 1,560 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	MC Read 45.8 MC Write 41.5 MC Mixed 39.9 121% 42.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.3 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 16.6 46% 16 GB/s	Latency 79.1 51% 79.1 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 111%

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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	249x
Core i7-5930KIntel $150Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	201x

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 $76Bench 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 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16