Asus B150M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	116% 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	77.9% 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 (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus B150M-A (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	2.4 Days
Run Date	May 14 '17 at 07:17
Run Duration	188 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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-$60 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	78.2% Very good	Memory 82.5 1-Core 115 2-Core 222 79% 140 Pts	4-Core 427 8-Core 426 57% 426 Pts	64-Core 424 26% 424 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 78.2% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	116% Outstanding	Lighting 156 Reflection 164 Parallax 153 128% 158 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 147 Splatting 118 105% 130 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$31 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 90GB free (System drive) Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 44 100 44 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 480 (A6) Unknown 100 100 28 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 79 (A9) Unknown 100 100 31 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 65 (AE) Unknown 100 100 27 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 100 214748364836 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 11796 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3633 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6857	77.9% Very good	Read 460 Write 398 Mixed 428 96% 429 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 99.4 4K Mixed 4.69 105% 44.8 MB/s	DQ Read 29.6 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 4.6 46% 100 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$62 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 205409232 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 108 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 1161153 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 665 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 108 (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 74 56 437714970 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2486 (C2) HDA temperature 26 44 81604378650 (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 -122655676038617 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1767910537 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9016696171	102% Outstanding	Read 188 Write 168 Mixed 169 132% 175 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.24 88% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 114%
Seagate STM31000528AS 1TB 1,142 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 224GB free Firmware: CC35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 119761358 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1097 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 10284782 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2230 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 527 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 48 437780506 (C2) HDA temperature 26 52 73014444058 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 22 119761358 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -125700807848482 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2795346952 (F2) Unknown 100 253 801179197	39% Below average	Read 71.5 Write 64.4 Mixed 72.5 52% 69.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 0.86 4K Mixed 0.28 62% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 39% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$125 59,072 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	75.5% Very good	MC Read 27.8 MC Write 29.2 MC Mixed 25.5 79% 27.5 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 26.4 SC Mixed 19.8 58% 20.2 GB/s	Latency 76 53% 76 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 85%

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Gaming 30%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 26%

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Motherboard: Asus B150M-A - $285

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	259x
Core i5-6500Intel $60Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	246x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	237x

GPU
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	137x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	132x
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	120x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	95x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	47x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	40x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	41x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x4GBHyperX $67Bench 69%, 46,617 samples	39x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	27x

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Value: 49% - Average

Total price: $878

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16