Asus PRIME B250M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.66% 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	61.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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	4.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170710
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 01 '18 at 15:46
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i3-7100-$70 79,299 User benchmarks, average bench 57% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.9 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.6% Very good	Memory 93.7 1-Core 124 2-Core 219 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 345 8-Core 347 46% 346 Pts	64-Core 347 22% 347 Pts
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 23.20.16.4973 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	6.66% Terrible	Lighting 6.9 Reflection 9.96 Parallax 6.72 6% 7.86 fps	MRender 9.81 Gravity 6.07 Splatting 14.3 9% 10.1 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.66% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 67GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3G37R5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 11 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1846 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 387 (64) Unknown 100 100 1228544 (65) Unknown 100 100 90592 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 146 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 99 99 533 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 752 (B7) Unknown 100 100 3 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 24 100 167504445464 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 11 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 11 (E7) Temperature 99 99 1 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2897 (EA) Unknown 100 100 775 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1477 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2152 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 77	61.9% Good	Read 477 Write 224 Mixed 240 69% 314 MB/s	4K Read 34.4 4K Write 52.3 4K Mixed 12 95% 32.9 MB/s	DQ Read 34.6 DQ Write 56.9 DQ Mixed 11.3 18% 34.3 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 88%
WD Blue 1TB (2015)-$40 52,322 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 712GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 131 121 4441 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 331 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1489 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 284 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 113 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7509 (C2) HDA temperature 118 110 25 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	82.1% Excellent	Read 151 Write 135 Mixed 125 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.98 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.27 110% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G4D240FSB.8FBD2 2x4GB 4,601 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	78.3% Very good	MC Read 28.3 MC Write 31 MC Mixed 23.2 79% 27.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 28.7 SC Mixed 25.4 68% 23.9 GB/s	Latency 60.5 66% 60.5 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 90%

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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 41%

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Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B250M-A - $74

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	1,289x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	958x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	709x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	527x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	467x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	461x

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	65x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $400

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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