Asus PRIME B250M-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (95th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 5 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	56.4% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B250M-A (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170206
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 06 '17 at 16:11
Run Duration	80 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.1% Outstanding	Memory 93.6 1-Core 132 2-Core 260 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 502 8-Core 696 76% 599 Pts	64-Core 711 44% 711 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 367A) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	56.4% Above average	Lighting 71.8 Reflection 71.3 Parallax 62.7 58% 68.6 fps	MRender 73 Gravity 66.2 Splatting 55.9 52% 65 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 54%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2TB free (System drive) Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 100 176697536 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 430443 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6 (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 67 67 555483169 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 3 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 77309411361 (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 75466870358019 (F1) Unknown 100 253 121928201 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4335118095	110% Outstanding	Read 197 Write 187 Mixed 184 143% 189 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.19 79% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378A1K43CB2-CRC 2x8GB 24,860 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	80.5% Excellent	MC Read 30.4 MC Write 31.3 MC Mixed 22.7 80% 28.1 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 33.1 SC Mixed 24.3 73% 25.6 GB/s	Latency 60.8 66% 60.8 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 88%

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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%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B250M-A - $74

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	1,289x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	958x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	710x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	528x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	467x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	461x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	140x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	139x
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	109x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	92x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	78x
DDR4 2400 2OZ 1x8GBAdataBench 42%, 10,940 samples	65x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $400

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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