Asus X542UQR

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 15% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 79.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	10.9% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	78.4% 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	Windows 11 is the most recent version of Windows.

CPU throttled at 88% by Windows. Ensure maximum processor state is set to 100% via Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state.

Run History

21 months ago, 21 months ago, 21 months ago, 21 months ago.

System	Asus X542UQR (all builds)
Motherboard	ASUSTeK X542UQR
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 11
BIOS Date	20211029
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 08 '22 at 04:42
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	VNM-User
Background CPU	0%
CPU Throttled	88%

PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8250U 234,942 User benchmarks, average bench 53% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 1.8 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	79.4% Very good	Memory 90.6 1-Core 101 2-Core 200 76% 130 Pts	4-Core 368 8-Core 569 58% 469 Pts	64-Core 565 35% 565 Pts
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia 940MX 36,213 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Asus(1043 142E) 2GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 30.0.15.1179 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	10.9% Very poor	Lighting 13.8 Reflection 16.9 Parallax 14 11% 14.9 fps	MRender 14.4 Gravity 14.2 Splatting 10.2 10% 12.9 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 10.9% Great: 10%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel SSDSCKKW180H6 180GB 778 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 63GB free (System drive) Firmware: LSF043C SusWrite @10s intervals: 229 96 81 79 81 81 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	78.4% Very good	Read 372 Write 323 Mixed 294 SusWrite 108 61% 274 MB/s	4K Read 24.1 4K Write 87 4K Mixed 44.4 140% 51.8 MB/s	DQ Read 281 DQ Write 300 DQ Mixed 200 176% 261 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 88%
Hitachi HTS541010B7E610 1TB 40,802 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 163GB free Firmware: 03.01A03 SusWrite @10s intervals: 68 77 78 79 80 81 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	43.9% Average	Read 74.5 Write 114 Mixed 71.8 SusWrite 77.2 62% 84.3 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 4.7 4K Mixed 0.2 155% 2 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 43.9% Great: 72%
Glowy 120GB 120GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 41GB free Firmware: ZD0R025N SusWrite @10s intervals: 421 395 402 380 190 42 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples
Poor: 27% Great: 97%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH Samsung M471A1K43BB1-CRC 16GB 493 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	78.3% Very good	MC Read 29.6 MC Write 29.9 MC Mixed 22.8 78% 27.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 33.1 SC Mixed 25.4 72% 25 GB/s	Latency 66.3 60% 66.3 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 78%

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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 7%

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Desktop 53%

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Workstation 6%

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System: Asus X542UQR

CPU
Core i5-8250UIntelBench 53%, 234,942 samples	128x
Core i7-8550UIntelBench 53%, 184,356 samples	77x
Core i7-7500UIntelBench 48%, 139,101 samples	1x

GPU
UHD Graphics 620 (Mobile Kaby Lake R)IntelBench 5%, 420,154 samples	148x
940MXNvidiaBench 9%, 36,213 samples	57x
HD 620 (Mobile Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 387,149 samples	2x

SSD
SSDSCKKW180H6 180GBIntelBench 73%, 778 samples	16x
WDS240G2G0B-00EPW0 240GBWDCBench 45%, 85,321 samples	11x
THNSNK128GVN8 128GBToshibaBench 56%, 2,065 samples	9x

RAM
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 1x8GBHynixBench 37%, 144,145 samples	47x
AO1P24HC8T1-BSFS 1x8GBAdataBench 36%, 6,338 samples	45x
HMA851S6AFR6N-UH HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 12GBHynixBench 50%, 4,021 samples	9x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $163	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16