Asus STRIX B250F GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Yacht	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 80.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	62.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	98.6% 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	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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Run History

6 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX B250F GAMING (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20171214
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 21 '18 at 16:20
Run Duration	131 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	80.6% Excellent	Memory 85.9 1-Core 117 2-Core 232 81% 145 Pts	4-Core 433 8-Core 451 59% 442 Pts	64-Core 459 28% 459 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AE) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 398.36 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	62.2% Good	Lighting 78.2 Reflection 78.7 Parallax 68.2 64% 75 fps	MRender 70.7 Gravity 71 Splatting 74.7 59% 72.1 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force LE 240GB-$85 14,954 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 146GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFC12.2 SusWrite @10s intervals: 334 183 172 174 124 175 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	98.6% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 498 Mixed 380 SusWrite 194 89% 396 MB/s	4K Read 34.6 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 44.2 169% 63.8 MB/s	DQ Read 324 DQ Write 328 DQ Mixed 203 187% 285 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 97%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 SusWrite @10s intervals: 175 184 182 183 184 184 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 118 Mixed 85 SusWrite 182 103% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.7 137% 1 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.6% Very good	MC Read 26.2 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 24.7 76% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 28.4 SC Mixed 23.6 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 71.3 56% 71.3 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 104%

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

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Gaming 48%

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Desktop 83%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Asus STRIX B250F GAMING - $182

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	589x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	541x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	321x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	407x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	292x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	184x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	95x
PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 177%, 99,566 samples	80x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	58x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	88x
BLS8G4D26BFSBK.8FBD 2x8GBCrucialBench 80%, 5,007 samples	62x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	53x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $566

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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