Asus B150M-A/M.2

Performance Results


Gaming 123% UFO	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 96% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	154% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

16 months ago, 16 months ago.

Motherboard	Asus B150M-A/M.2 (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160506
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 05 '23 at 06:04
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	14%

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PC Performing as expected (44^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600-$146 80,688 User benchmarks, average bench 68% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	80% Very good	Memory 85.8 1-Core 112 2-Core 219 79% 139 Pts	4-Core 429 8-Core 430 57% 429 Pts	64-Core 428 26% 428 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 3070-$400 619,642 User benchmarks, average bench 148% Gigabyte(1458 404C) CLim: 2205 MHz, MLim: 3650 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 527.56 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	154% Outstanding	Lighting 227 Reflection 273 Parallax 185 185% 228 fps	MRender 202 Gravity 157 Splatting 140 133% 166 fps
Poor: 135% ↑ This bench: 154% Great: 158%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$158 331,647 User benchmarks, average bench 297% 142GB free Firmware: 2B2Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1090 905 1005 871 848 827 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	239% Outstanding	Read 1,991 Write 1,401 Mixed 1,190 SusWrite 924 307% 1,377 MB/s	4K Read 53.3 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 67.5 224% 76.3 MB/s	DQ Read 965 DQ Write 534 DQ Mixed 697 532% 732 MB/s
Poor: 214% ↑ This bench: 239% Great: 372%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 1TB (2016)-$70 66,332 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 206GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC41 SusWrite @10s intervals: 122 126 154 161 145 110 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	57.8% Above average	Read 63.5 Write 190 Mixed 31 SusWrite 136 76% 105 MB/s	4K Read 1.4 4K Write 5.2 4K Mixed 2.1 388% 2.9 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 57.8% Great: 111%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BL8G30C15U4B.M8FE 2x8GB 1,472 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72% Very good	MC Read 26.6 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 21.6 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 27.5 SC Mixed 19.3 61% 21.2 GB/s	Latency 71.4 56% 71.4 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 105%

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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%

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Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: Asus B150M-A/M.2

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	264x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	256x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	172x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	219x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	146x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	107x

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	30x

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: $273

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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 $40	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