Asus PRIME B250M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 75.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.89% 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	62.5% 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

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B250M-A (all builds)
Memory	6 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170310
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 10 '18 at 10:36
Run Duration	200 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (60^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)	75.7% Very good	Memory 92.6 1-Core 124 2-Core 230 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 340 8-Core 347 46% 344 Pts	64-Core 348 22% 348 Pts
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 75.7% 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. 24.20.100.6025 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	6.89% Terrible	Lighting 7.13 Reflection 10.7 Parallax 6.84 6% 8.22 fps	MRender 10 Gravity 6.3 Splatting 15 9% 10.4 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.89% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB-$35 20,420 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 36GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2186 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1028 (B1) Unknown 95 95 22 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 50 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 12 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8169857752	62.5% Good	Read 472 Write 256 Mixed 270 73% 333 MB/s	4K Read 30.3 4K Write 60.4 4K Mixed 11.3 92% 34 MB/s	DQ Read 27.8 DQ Write 50.6 DQ Mixed 9.53 16% 29.3 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 110%
Kingston SSDNow V300 60GB-$76 24,219 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 21GB free Firmware: 505ABBF1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3306416 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 43155831397552 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4185 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 172 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 34 68 81608835106 (C2) HDA temperature 34 68 81608835106 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3306416 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3306416 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3306416 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10110 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4384 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4384 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10419	51.6% Above average	Read 431 Write 74.7 Mixed 116 44% 207 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 72 4K Mixed 10.9 91% 36.2 MB/s	DQ Read 96.8 DQ Write 77.2 DQ Mixed 10.6 29% 61.6 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 69%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 99 12502064 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 345 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 655984 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 725 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 343 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 57 622657573 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2155 (C2) HDA temperature 37 43 77309411365 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -12043088297366 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2327011524 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5617725247	84.9% Excellent	Read 145 Write 152 Mixed 141 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.22 86% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 114%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 381GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 172 4216 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4482 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7681 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4307 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 159 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 151 151 149508 (C2) HDA temperature 110 103 37 (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	78.3% Very good	Read 143 Write 129 Mixed 120 98% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 2.43 4K Mixed 0.25 103% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 84%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 168GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 169 2366 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1144 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2341 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1113 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 29 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4498 (C2) HDA temperature 105 98 38 (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	81.1% Excellent	Read 153 Write 129 Mixed 139 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.27 110% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x4GB-$30 19,452 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	73% Very good	MC Read 26.2 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 21.6 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 27.6 SC Mixed 23.2 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 62.8 64% 62.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 88%

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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 $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	1,289x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	959x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	710x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	529x
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: 73% - Very good

Total price: $385

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $15	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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