Asus STRIX B250F GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 40% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	71.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX B250F GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170511
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 15 '19 at 20:09
Run Duration	163 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	74% Very good	Memory 79.6 1-Core 97.7 2-Core 202 72% 127 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 380 53% 390 Pts	64-Core 408 25% 408 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-64-$400 91,676 User benchmarks, average bench 87% Asus(1043 04C4) CLim: 1630 MHz, MLim: 945 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.12.2 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	60.6% Good	Lighting 51.3 Reflection 64.2 Parallax 51.6 42% 55.7 fps	MRender 91 Gravity 128 Splatting 131 97% 116 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 94%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Z400s 128GB-$109 10,807 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 82GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z2333000 SusWrite @10s intervals: 166 175 175 177 180 179 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	71.4% Very good	Read 499 Write 172 Mixed 171 SusWrite 175 56% 254 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 12.3 117% 50.8 MB/s	DQ Read 172 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 78.1 86% 143 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 71%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 136GB free Firmware: CC37 SusWrite @10s intervals: 100 101 103 102 103 102 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	63.9% Good	Read 121 Write 118 Mixed 69 SusWrite 102 75% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 1 172% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 70%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 252GB free Firmware: SC13 SusWrite @10s intervals: 85 85 88 87 88 88 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	47.1% Average	Read 77 Write 83 Mixed 51 SusWrite 86.9 55% 74.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.8 141% 1 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 47.1% Great: 60%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 291GB free Firmware: SC13 SusWrite @10s intervals: 62 63 64 64 64 64 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	40.6% Average	Read 77.5 Write 79.2 Mixed 49.5 SusWrite 63.7 50% 67.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.8 145% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 40.6% Great: 60%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 295GB free Firmware: SC13 SusWrite @10s intervals: 104 105 108 107 106 108 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	55.7% Above average	Read 87.7 Write 79 Mixed 50.2 SusWrite 106 59% 80.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.8 138% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A1 2x8GB 1,302 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	75.8% Very good	MC Read 27.9 MC Write 29.7 MC Mixed 25.2 79% 27.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 26.7 SC Mixed 20.4 59% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 81.2 49% 81.2 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 79%

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

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Gaming 48%

Yacht

Desktop 83%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Asus STRIX B250F GAMING - $182

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	588x
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 $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