Asus PRIME B250M-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 40% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 80.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 (76%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B250M-A (all builds)
Memory	8.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170323
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 22 '21 at 09:22
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	PHL-User
Background CPU	76%

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PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7400-$95 234,266 User benchmarks, average bench 64% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	80.2% Excellent	Memory 87.4 1-Core 108 2-Core 215 78% 137 Pts	4-Core 424 8-Core 414 56% 419 Pts	64-Core 423 26% 423 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1650S (Super)-$295 180,577 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Zotac(19DA 1583) CLim: 2250 MHz, MLim: 3025 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 456.71 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	61.6% Good	Lighting 79.6 Reflection 118 Parallax 77.2 65% 91.6 fps	MRender 64.3 Gravity 75.5 Splatting 63.4 55% 67.7 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate SkyHawk 6TB (2016)-$143 139 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 661GB free (System drive) Firmware: SC60 SusWrite @10s intervals: 78 92 105 107 99 114 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	57.4% Above average	Read 99.2 Write 116 Mixed 67 SusWrite 98.9 70% 95.2 MB/s	4K Read 5 4K Write 3.3 4K Mixed 0.9 369% 3.07 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 57.4% Great: 108%
Seagate SkyHawk 6TB (2016)-$143 139 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 460GB free Firmware: SC60 SusWrite @10s intervals: 107 119 121 123 123 122 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 10% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905678-012.A00G 2x8GB 1,882 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	77.8% Very good	MC Read 28.2 MC Write 31.4 MC Mixed 23.5 79% 27.7 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 30.2 SC Mixed 24 67% 23.4 GB/s	Latency 70.2 57% 70.2 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 86%

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

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B250M-A - $74

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	1,294x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	961x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	713x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	530x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	467x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	462x

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	66x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $385

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16