Asus PRIME B250M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	90% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	40.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B250M-A (all builds)
Memory	27.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170616
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	Jan 17 '18 at 10:50
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing as expected (47^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.7% Excellent	Memory 85.5 1-Core 128 2-Core 244 85% 152 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 688 74% 586 Pts	64-Core 677 42% 677 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3367) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2113 MHz, MLim: 2527 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	90% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 115 Parallax 94.6 85% 104 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 144 Splatting 114 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WDS120G1G0A-00SS50 512GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 93GB free Firmware: X6104000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 328 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 85 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12976280 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 34 (A8) Unknown 100 100 8 (A9) Unknown 100 100 279 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 5 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 44 188979871781 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 128850984990 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1566 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1855 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1706 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1283 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	72.4% Very good	Read 473 Write 253 Mixed 229 70% 318 MB/s	4K Read 26.9 4K Write 56.6 4K Mixed 16 91% 33.2 MB/s	DQ Read 337 DQ Write 172 DQ Mixed 38.6 86% 183 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 75%
WD Green 120GB (2016)-$84 21,990 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z3311000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 501 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 227 (A5) Unknown 100 100 30091772241 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 17 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 5 (AE) Unknown 100 100 26 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 55 49 219043332141 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 481041645680 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 690 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1580 (F1) Unknown 253 253 992 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2116 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	40.7% Average	Read 467 Write 61.3 Mixed 162 50% 230 MB/s	4K Read 14.1 4K Write 32.3 4K Mixed 3.23 43% 16.5 MB/s	DQ Read 173 DQ Write 120 DQ Mixed 1.24 40% 98.1 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 40.7% Great: 71%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$39 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 700GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 172 2325 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 616 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 612 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 223 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 20 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4423 (C2) HDA temperature 107 100 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 70 (F1) Unknown 200 200 4334535523 (F2) Unknown 200 200 2309257320	93.6% Outstanding	Read 158 Write 168 Mixed 153 120% 160 MB/s	4K Read 1.35 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.35 140% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 93.6% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Adata GEIL CL16-16-16 D4-2400 GEIL CL16-16-16 D4-2400 32GB 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	73% Very good	MC Read 26.4 MC Write 28 MC Mixed 22.6 73% 25.7 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 28.8 SC Mixed 23.6 66% 23.1 GB/s	Latency 71.6 56% 71.6 ns

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B250M-A - $74

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $70Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	1,303x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	965x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	715x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	532x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	470x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	465x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	140x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	140x
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	111x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	93x
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: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $288

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $159	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	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 $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