Asus PRIME B250M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 117% UFO	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 99% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	132% 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.
Boot Drive	113% 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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B250M-A (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171211
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 16 '18 at 07:56
Run Duration	183 Seconds
Run User	MYS-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (75^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)	88.8% Excellent	Memory 92 1-Core 126 2-Core 244 87% 154 Pts	4-Core 462 8-Core 660 70% 561 Pts	64-Core 703 44% 703 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	132% Outstanding	Lighting 188 Reflection 195 Parallax 178 153% 187 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 180 Splatting 125 116% 143 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 178GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2028 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 406 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (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 52 33 48 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 11 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9285936094	113% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 411 Mixed 420 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 44.7 4K Write 90.7 4K Mixed 49.5 179% 61.7 MB/s	DQ Read 303 DQ Write 215 DQ Mixed 117 126% 212 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 131%
Plextor M5 Pro 128GB-$130 4,476 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 66GB free Firmware: 1.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1616 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2198 (B1) Unknown 100 100 328137 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 312 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 346325 (F2) Unknown 100 100 537997	96.9% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 312 Mixed 382 90% 405 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 83.9 4K Mixed 38.3 145% 52 MB/s	DQ Read 302 DQ Write 271 DQ Mixed 80.7 117% 218 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 98%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 148GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 140 138 3958 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6263 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9428 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2160 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 248 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6014 (C2) HDA temperature 106 92 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 5	55.2% Above average	Read 106 Write 86.3 Mixed 86.8 70% 93 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.23 78% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 69%
WDC WD32 00BEVT-22ZCT0 320GB 34 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 16GB free, PID 00db Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	18.2% Very poor	Read 34 Write 36.2 Mixed 32.7 44% 34.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.25 69% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 18.2% Great: 20%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	76% Very good	MC Read 28.3 MC Write 30.1 MC Mixed 21.5 76% 26.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 30.4 SC Mixed 24.3 68% 23.8 GB/s	Latency 64.1 62% 64.1 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 95%

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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