Asus PRIME B250M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.87% 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	210% 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	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170323
Uptime	4.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 18 '18 at 19:40
Run Duration	108 Seconds
Run User	ISR-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing way above expectations (86^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)	89.4% Excellent	Memory 92.2 1-Core 129 2-Core 256 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 500 8-Core 503 67% 501 Pts	64-Core 487 30% 487 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 22.20.16.4836 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.87% Terrible	Lighting 8.3 Reflection 11.8 Parallax 8.19 7% 9.42 fps	MRender 11.2 Gravity 7.4 Splatting 16.4 10% 11.7 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.87% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 99,566 User benchmarks, average bench 177% 184GB free (System drive) Firmware: 4L7QCXB7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	210% Outstanding	Read 1,812 Write 975 Mixed 1,178 292% 1,322 MB/s	4K Read 32.1 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 63.6 192% 71 MB/s	DQ Read 427 DQ Write 327 DQ Mixed 180 188% 311 MB/s
Poor: 106% ↑ This bench: 210% Great: 236%
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 as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 22656208 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 478 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 9415500 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2853 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 65 (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 68 53 554893344 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1414 (C2) HDA temperature 32 47 73014444064 (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 20121921784223 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1284878187 (F2) Unknown 100 253 108799965644	97.4% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 164 Mixed 152 123% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.21 67% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Ramaxel RMUA5110MB78HAF2400 2x8GB 354 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	79% Very good	MC Read 29.3 MC Write 30.9 MC Mixed 23.5 80% 27.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 29.3 SC Mixed 24.5 69% 24 GB/s	Latency 63.7 63% 63.7 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 82%

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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 $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