Asus PRIME B250M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 86.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89% 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	41.9% 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.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B250M-A (all builds)
Memory	26.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170616
Uptime	1.6 Days
Run Date	Jun 07 '18 at 09:27
Run Duration	174 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	23%

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PC Performing as expected (45^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 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	86.2% Excellent	Memory 93.1 1-Core 122 2-Core 230 85% 148 Pts	4-Core 427 8-Core 695 69% 561 Pts	64-Core 654 40% 654 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3367) ≥ 4GB; armor CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2652 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	89% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 114 Parallax 93.8 85% 104 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 143 Splatting 105 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 240GB-$43 14,860 User benchmarks, average bench 151% 223GB free Firmware: E7FM04.C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	216% Outstanding	Read 2,085 Write 1,350 Mixed 1,594 372% 1,676 MB/s	4K Read 21.3 4K Write 81.2 4K Mixed 39.8 126% 47.5 MB/s	DQ Read 30.7 DQ Write 454 DQ Mixed 162 149% 215 MB/s
Poor: 106% ↑ This bench: 216% Great: 210%
Sandisk S3512G 512GB 19,948 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 60GB free Firmware: X6104000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1002 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 290 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12913803608 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 34 (A8) Unknown 100 100 17 (A9) Unknown 100 100 279 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7 (AE) Unknown 100 100 12 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 44 188979478561 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 292062363718 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3649 (EA) Unknown 100 100 4167 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3590 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6830 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	79% Very good	Read 471 Write 282 Mixed 289 77% 347 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 79.6 4K Mixed 20 104% 41.1 MB/s	DQ Read 329 DQ Write 226 DQ Mixed 44.3 96% 200 MB/s
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 119%
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 (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1058 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 432 (A5) Unknown 100 100 30115103378 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 26 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 9 (AE) Unknown 100 100 33 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 49 219043332138 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 940607013083 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1181 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3082 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1804 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3353 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	41.9% Average	Read 472 Write 147 Mixed 32 46% 217 MB/s	4K Read 14.7 4K Write 27.3 4K Mixed 2.28 40% 14.8 MB/s	DQ Read 24.1 DQ Write 121 DQ Mixed 1.2 22% 48.7 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 41.9% Great: 71%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 209GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 172 2350 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1127 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1284 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 428 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9467 (C2) HDA temperature 114 100 29 (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 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 175 (F1) Unknown 200 200 10798434578 (F2) Unknown 200 200 5076593614	75.4% Very good	Read 144 Write 118 Mixed 130 99% 131 MB/s	4K Read 1.26 4K Write 2.19 4K Mixed 0.22 118% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
GEIL CL16-16-16 D4-2400 Adata CL16-16-16 D4-2400 Adata 32GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2400, 2400, 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	80.8% Excellent	MC Read 29.4 MC Write 31.1 MC Mixed 25.2 82% 28.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 31.2 SC Mixed 23.9 70% 24.3 GB/s	Latency 61.9 65% 61.9 ns
Poor: 81% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 82%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B250M-A - $74

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	1,292x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	961x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	711x

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	462x

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	66x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $385

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