Asus STRIX B250G GAMING

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% 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.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus STRIX B250G GAMING (all builds)
Memory	3.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170324
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 09 '17 at 02:55
Run Duration	150 Seconds
Run User	KWT-User
Background CPU	29%

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PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600-$89 39,689 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	82.4% Excellent	Memory 91.1 1-Core 121 2-Core 242 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 414 8-Core 488 59% 451 Pts	64-Core 467 29% 467 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3367) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 144 Reflection 148 Parallax 125 117% 139 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 138 Splatting 106 96% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 75GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 136 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 8 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 62 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1643024797
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 100 33813536 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 17 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 193112 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 146 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 17 (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 80 70 353370132 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 527 (C2) HDA temperature 20 40 68719476756 (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 -71940702207876 (F1) Unknown 100 253 795275344 (F2) Unknown 100 253 504465417	98.3% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 157 Mixed 157 125% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.24 85% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 98.3% Great: 114%
StoreJet Transcend 1TB 14,954 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 353GB free, PID 5106 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	14.2% Very poor	Read 34.7 Write 34 Mixed 30.9 42% 33.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.07 4K Write 0.57 4K Mixed 0.07 22% 0.24 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 14.2% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 1x8GB-$25 19,648 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	37.1% Below average	MC Read 13.8 MC Write 12.6 MC Mixed 10.5 35% 12.3 GB/s	SC Read 10 SC Write 9.8 SC Mixed 10.5 29% 10.1 GB/s	Latency 65.6 61% 65.6 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 37.1% Great: 47%

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

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX B250G GAMING

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	297x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	262x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	237x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	242x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	197x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	99x

SSD
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	73x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	70x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	25x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	137x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	26x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	24x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $316

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