Asus PRIME B250M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 93.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	98% 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	63.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

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. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B250M-A (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180327
Uptime	2.4 Days
Run Date	Jun 11 '18 at 14:14
Run Duration	107 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^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)	93.4% Outstanding	Memory 94.6 1-Core 127 2-Core 255 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 498 8-Core 705 76% 602 Pts	64-Core 705 44% 705 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 93.4% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2151 MHz, MLim: 2294 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 129 Parallax 110 101% 121 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 113 Splatting 113 92% 113 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 168GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3G37R5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 91 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2582 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 409 (64) Unknown 100 100 2194224 (65) Unknown 100 100 307328 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 26 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 98 98 952 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 776 (B7) Unknown 98 98 10 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 26 100 188979281946 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 91 (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 91 (E7) Temperature 98 98 2 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5738 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2682 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3586 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3662 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 571	63.2% Good	Read 479 Write 236 Mixed 234 69% 316 MB/s	4K Read 34.4 4K Write 50.8 4K Mixed 13.4 96% 32.9 MB/s	DQ Read 35.6 DQ Write 54 DQ Mixed 11.7 18% 33.8 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 480GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 113530304 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2277 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2191133 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2527 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 447 (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 72 57 521207836 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10801 (C2) HDA temperature 28 43 47244640284 (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 68062346740142 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4160671310 (F2) Unknown 100 253 70058981209	82.4% Excellent	Read 150 Write 137 Mixed 154 111% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.24 86% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB-$46 47,721 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	83.3% Excellent	MC Read 30.4 MC Write 31.6 MC Mixed 26.1 84% 29.4 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 33.6 SC Mixed 26.8 72% 25.1 GB/s	Latency 58.3 69% 58.3 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 80%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

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	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	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 $178	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