Asus B150M-A/M.2

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (30th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 70 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 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 70.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	101% 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	238% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (28%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

20 months ago, 20 months ago, 20 months ago, 20 months ago, 20 months ago.

Motherboard	Asus B150M-A/M.2 (all builds)
Memory	25.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160506
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 01 '22 at 05:03
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	28%

PC Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$170 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	Memory 77.3 1-Core 97.8 2-Core 180 68% 118 Pts	4-Core 346 8-Core 505 53% 425 Pts	64-Core 514 32% 514 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 3060-$266 447,556 User benchmarks, average bench 100% Gigabyte(1458 4074) CLim: 2355 MHz, MLim: 3750 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 517.48 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	101% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 118 Parallax 127 110% 126 fps	MRender 128 Gravity 108 Splatting 89.3 87% 109 fps
Poor: 90% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 106%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 980 PRO with Heatsink 1TB 10,731 User benchmarks, average bench 376% 458GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5B2QGXA7 SusWrite @10s intervals: 1300 1335 1332 1512 1505 1345 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	238% Outstanding	Read 1,726 Write 1567 Mixed 1,546 SusWrite 1,388 350% 1,557 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 78.9 4K Mixed 57.6 185% 60.8 MB/s	DQ Read 676 DQ Write 497 DQ Mixed 545 419% 573 MB/s
Poor: 236% ↑ This bench: 238% Great: 477%
Kingston A400 240GB-$28 424,288 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 10GB free Firmware: SBFKB1E1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 199 207 205 50 87 211 MB/s Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	49.1% Average	Read 183 Write 93.8 Mixed 194 SusWrite 160 35% 158 MB/s	4K Read 15.8 4K Write 48.3 4K Mixed 18.5 73% 27.5 MB/s	DQ Read 226 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 120 117% 185 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 100%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$25 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 230GB free Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 132 133 157 155 136 138 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	74.2% Very good	Read 117 Write 92.2 Mixed 69.1 SusWrite 142 77% 105 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.7 145% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905678-065.A00G 4x8GB 37 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	65.6% Good	MC Read 23.1 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 21.3 68% 23.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 23.1 SC Mixed 18.2 52% 18.3 GB/s	Latency 85.8 47% 85.8 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 76%

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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%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: Asus B150M-A/M.2

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $60Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	266x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	259x
Core i5-6400Intel $69Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	173x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	224x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	148x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	108x

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	31x

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: $266

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $159	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $109	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16