Asus PRIME B250M-PLUS

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 23% Surfboard	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 73.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	30.7% 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	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 (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B250M-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1600 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors, 1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170323
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Aug 22 '18 at 06:28
Run Duration	106 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6400-$79 171,457 User benchmarks, average bench 61% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	73.2% Very good	Memory 82.9 1-Core 98.1 2-Core 195 72% 125 Pts	4-Core 366 8-Core 376 49% 371 Pts	64-Core 381 24% 381 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 71%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 24.20.100.6229 Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	5.05% Terrible	Lighting 5.37 Reflection 8.15 Parallax 5.28 4% 6.27 fps	MRender 5.9 Gravity 4.63 Splatting 11.3 6% 7.28 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.05% Great: 6%
AMD R9 270X-$199 77,943 User benchmarks, average bench 27% Sapphire(174B E270) 2GB CLim: 1100 MHz, MLim: 1450 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 18.8.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	30.7% Below average	Lighting 38.6 Reflection 34.9 Parallax 46.7 32% 40.1 fps	MRender 31 Gravity 32.5 Splatting 40.7 29% 34.7 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 30.7% Great: 29%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 1TB (2016)-$70 66,332 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 833GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC41 SusWrite @10s intervals: 171 182 184 190 160 179 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Read 126 Write 182 Mixed 28 SusWrite 178 93% 128 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 5.2 4K Mixed 2.3 406% 2.93 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 111%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Adata 1x16GB 6,485 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	40.3% Average	MC Read 14 MC Write 14.5 MC Mixed 12.2 39% 13.6 GB/s	SC Read 11.3 SC Write 12.9 SC Mixed 12 34% 12.1 GB/s	Latency 75.3 53% 75.3 ns
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 40.3% Great: 58%

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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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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Asus PRIME B250M-PLUS - $100

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	356x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	350x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	266x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	211x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	195x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	161x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	51x
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	45x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	43x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	73x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	25x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	24x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $426

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 $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) $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