Alienware Area-51 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 91% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (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. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	131% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	72.2% 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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141001
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 21 '20 at 06:58
Run Duration	143 Seconds
Run User	MYS-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing below expectations (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 i7-5930K-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	76.6% Very good	Memory 78.9 1-Core 95.6 2-Core 203 71% 126 Pts	4-Core 400 8-Core 580 61% 490 Pts	64-Core 827 51% 827 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3751) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2808 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 456.71 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	131% Outstanding	Lighting 179 Reflection 198 Parallax 183 146% 187 fps	MRender 141 Gravity 184 Splatting 132 123% 153 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM871 2.5 7mm 256GB 2,882 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 40GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02D0Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 119 106 97 88 88 88 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	72.2% Very good	Read 476 Write 237 Mixed 248 SusWrite 97.5 58% 264 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 64.3 4K Mixed 30.2 111% 40 MB/s	DQ Read 382 DQ Write 205 DQ Mixed 210 179% 266 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 99%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 43GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 74 80 81 89 89 74 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	41.2% Average	Read 62.1 Write 68.4 Mixed 52.4 SusWrite 81.1 49% 66 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.4 93% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 41.2% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2017)-$79 179,101 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 168GB free Firmware: 0001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 103 147 153 151 151 153 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	55% Above average	Read 47.1 Write 95.1 Mixed 58.4 SusWrite 143 63% 85.9 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 5.2 4K Mixed 0.3 184% 2.27 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 55% Great: 90%

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 as expected (49^th percentile)	92.1% Outstanding	MC Read 35 MC Write 38.7 MC Mixed 33.1 102% 35.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.7 SC Write 19.2 SC Mixed 19.3 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 82.6 48% 82.6 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 101%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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System: Alienware Area-51 R2

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	807x
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	173x
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	134x
HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 4x4GBHynixBench 84%, 1,850 samples	130x
M378A5143DB0-CPB 4x4GBSamsungBench 88%, 1,582 samples	130x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $530

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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