Asus B150M-A/M.2

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 45% Yacht	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (28th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 72 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 25.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	60.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	82.4% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (70%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus B150M-A/M.2 (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160506
Uptime	3.8 Days
Run Date	Nov 19 '18 at 14:11
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	70%

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PC Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6402P 15,913 User benchmarks, average bench 68% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	25.3% Poor	Memory 35.6 1-Core 35.5 2-Core 152 37% 74.3 Pts	4-Core 84.1 8-Core 107 12% 95.5 Pts	64-Core 259 16% 259 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 25.3% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AF) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 416.16 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	60.3% Good	Lighting 76.1 Reflection 76.4 Parallax 65.8 62% 72.7 fps	MRender 68.6 Gravity 67.8 Splatting 71.2 57% 69.2 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$49 58,154 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 108GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF100C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 411 395 82 107 107 95 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	82.4% Excellent	Read 587 Write 405 Mixed 394 SusWrite 200 88% 396 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 10.1 103% 45 MB/s	DQ Read 278 DQ Write 520 DQ Mixed 320 265% 372 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 157%
Toshiba Q300 120GB 1,888 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 19GB free Firmware: SAFM11.2 SusWrite @10s intervals: 74 72 75 72 71 76 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	58.2% Above average	Read 479 Write 73.2 Mixed 206 SusWrite 73.3 45% 208 MB/s	4K Read 18.6 4K Write 50.2 4K Mixed 20.9 82% 29.9 MB/s	DQ Read 284 DQ Write 151 DQ Mixed 115 113% 183 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 58.2% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 145GB free Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 104 107 109 110 110 104 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	70.6% Very good	Read 138 Write 110 Mixed 79.2 SusWrite 108 80% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.6 130% 1 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905625-062.A00G 9905678-156.A00G 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	27.2% Poor	MC Read 12.4 MC Write 10 MC Mixed 7.3 28% 9.9 GB/s	SC Read 5.2 SC Write 12.1 SC Mixed 5.1 21% 7.47 GB/s	Latency 224 18% 224 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 27.2% Great: 41%

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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 40%

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Desktop 74%

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Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: Asus B150M-A/M.2

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	264x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	256x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	172x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	219x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	146x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	107x

SSD
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	51x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	44x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	30x

RAM
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	33x
9905625-062.A00G 2x8GBKingstonBench 73%, 3,107 samples	29x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	26x

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Value: 75% - Very good

Total price: $273

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 $40	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