Asus PRIME B250M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	7.15% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	149% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B250M-A (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171211
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 07 '18 at 13:29
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	LVA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (78^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 (100^th percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	Memory 94.8 1-Core 131 2-Core 258 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 506 8-Core 506 68% 506 Pts	64-Core 504 31% 504 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 730 164,888 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8525) 2GB CLim: 901 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	7.15% Terrible	Lighting 9 Reflection 7.88 Parallax 9.25 7% 8.71 fps	MRender 11 Gravity 7.33 Splatting 7.17 7% 8.52 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.15% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 128GB-$110 2,093 User benchmarks, average bench 165% 49GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1654 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 252 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 27 (AE) Unknown 99 99 4 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 412 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 56 35 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 3520 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1135 (F2) Unknown 99 99 1079	149% Outstanding	Read 1,717 Write 637 Mixed 907 238% 1,087 MB/s	4K Read 31.7 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 20.3 130% 52.5 MB/s	DQ Read 29.7 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 17.7 30% 55.3 MB/s
Poor: 116% ↑ This bench: 149% Great: 188%
Seagate ST3320620NS 320GB-$40 953 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 272GB free Firmware: 3.AEG Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 94 221932339 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1757 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 135397303 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9103 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1087 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 51 589365283 (C2) HDA temperature 35 49 64424509475 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 72 56 32711439 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	44% Average	Read 76.1 Write 77 Mixed 74.9 57% 76 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.4 92% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 44% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2666 C13 2x8GB 2,810 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	88.9% Excellent	MC Read 32.2 MC Write 33.9 MC Mixed 28.4 90% 31.5 GB/s	SC Read 19.7 SC Write 33.8 SC Mixed 27 77% 26.8 GB/s	Latency 57.8 69% 57.8 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 97%

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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%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B250M-A - $74

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	1,289x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	960x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	711x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	529x
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: 73% - Very good

Total price: $385

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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