Alienware Area 51

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	30.3% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware Area 51 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0J560M
Memory	10.3 GB free of 4 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20091022
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 06 '17 at 17:33
Run Duration	476 Seconds
Run User	MEX-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-950-$100 36,389 User benchmarks, average bench 66% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.05 GHz, turbo 3.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	74.3% Very good	Memory 94 1-Core 92.7 2-Core 177 72% 121 Pts	4-Core 296 8-Core 476 47% 386 Pts	64-Core 468 29% 468 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 270X-$199 77,943 User benchmarks, average bench 27% Asus(1043 0464) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	30.3% Below average	Lighting 39.6 Reflection 31.3 Parallax 42.8 32% 37.9 fps	MRender 28.7 Gravity 29.7 Splatting 36.8 26% 31.7 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 30.3% Great: 29%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
PNY SSD2SC120G3LC709B121-460P 120GB 507 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 73GB free Firmware: 541A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 89 89 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 135214160414593 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2533 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 107 (B1) Unknown 0 0 93 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 33 44 25772687393 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 88 88 38654705664 (E9) Unknown 0 0 51378 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6721 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6721 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6832	25.1% Poor	Read 393 Write 2.76 Mixed 4 28% 133 MB/s	4K Read 17 4K Write 3.74 4K Mixed 3.74 33% 8.17 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 25.1% Great: 64%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 131GB free (System drive) Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 285 (03) Spinup time 142 139 3875 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4772 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7506 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3220 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 426 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4345 (C2) HDA temperature 112 92 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 88 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	65% Good	Read 112 Write 115 Mixed 93.4 80% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.11 4K Write 0.44 4K Mixed 0.39 56% 0.31 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 69%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 52GB free Firmware: KC65 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 177990736 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 743 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 46992385 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5282 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 694 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 55 488112157 (C2) HDA temperature 29 45 60129542173 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 44 28 177990736 (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 100 253 -67499706018650 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4289111202 (F2) Unknown 100 253 104973174	51.7% Above average	Read 92 Write 88.3 Mixed 97.9 70% 92.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 0.94 4K Mixed 0.45 83% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 88%
PNY silicon-power 64GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 8% 30GB free, PID 00d4 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	6.7% Terrible	Read 30.6 Write 5.51 Mixed 9.18 15% 15.1 MB/s	4K Read 2.47 4K Write 0.16 4K Mixed 0.19 21% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 6.7% Great: 10%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1x4GB 154,807 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 1 of 3 slots used 4GB DIMM Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	44.3% Average	MC Read 17.4 MC Write 12.7 MC Mixed 15 43% 15 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 10.7 SC Mixed 12.4 32% 11.4 GB/s	Latency 59.8 67% 59.8 ns
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 44.3% Great: 52%

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 19%

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System: Alienware Area 51

CPU
Core i7 960Intel $220Bench 68%, 16,233 samples	37x
Core i7 930Intel $199Bench 64%, 19,497 samples	24x
Core i7 X 980Intel $148Bench 76%, 8,133 samples	22x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	16x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	14x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	10x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	5x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	5x
WDBNCE0010PNC 1TBWDCBench 97%, 21,221 samples	5x

RAM
3x4GBUnknownBench 42%, 39,448 samples	113x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	29x
1x4GBUnknownBench 28%, 154,807 samples	7x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $369

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) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16