Asus PRIME B250M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	8.45% 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	84.8% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B250M-A (all builds)
Memory	5.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171211
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '18 at 00:53
Run Duration	86 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i3-7100-$70 79,299 User benchmarks, average bench 57% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.9 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	75.1% Very good	Memory 92.8 1-Core 124 2-Core 190 80% 136 Pts	4-Core 336 8-Core 323 44% 329 Pts	64-Core 340 21% 340 Pts
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Nvidia(10DE 0000) 3GB CLim: 783 MHz, MLim: 902 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 390.77 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	8.45% Terrible	Lighting 9.47 Reflection 11.2 Parallax 8 8% 9.57 fps	MRender 13.2 Gravity 9.8 Splatting 12.9 10% 12 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 8.45% Great: 56%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 141GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1600 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 182 (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 70 62 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 30 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2038733485	84.8% Excellent	Read 497 Write 397 Mixed 417 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 40.1 4K Write 76.8 4K Mixed 22.4 130% 46.5 MB/s	DQ Read 30.3 DQ Write 85.8 DQ Mixed 82.3 56% 66.1 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 124%

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 above expectations (72^nd percentile)	40.6% Average	MC Read 14.4 MC Write 14 MC Mixed 11 38% 13.1 GB/s	SC Read 12.5 SC Write 14.1 SC Mixed 12.3 37% 13 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 40.6% 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 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	709x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	527x
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 $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