Asus PRIME B250M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 84.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.7% 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	87.2% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B250M-A (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180327
Uptime	4.6 Days
Run Date	Sep 20 '18 at 17:01
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing way above expectations (86^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 (99^th percentile)	84.7% Excellent	Memory 94 1-Core 127 2-Core 248 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 407 8-Core 665 66% 536 Pts	64-Core 640 40% 640 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 84.7% 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: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 411.63 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 118 Parallax 99.6 89% 109 fps	MRender 97 Gravity 102 Splatting 99.8 82% 99.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 146GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3G37R5 SusWrite @10s intervals: 338 136 91 55 157 80 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.2% Excellent	Read 492 Write 417 Mixed 337 SusWrite 143 78% 347 MB/s	4K Read 35.9 4K Write 91.4 4K Mixed 42.3 157% 56.5 MB/s	DQ Read 307 DQ Write 165 DQ Mixed 149 134% 207 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 88%
Liteon IT L8T-128L9G 128GB 711 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 102GB free Firmware: H876201 SusWrite @10s intervals: 302 305 309 293 308 309 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Read 485 Write 296 Mixed 267 SusWrite 304 75% 338 MB/s	4K Read 31 4K Write 69 4K Mixed 37 131% 45.7 MB/s	DQ Read 234 DQ Write 252 DQ Mixed 160 143% 215 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 92%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 721GB free Firmware: CC26 SusWrite @10s intervals: 160 162 162 163 163 163 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	89.9% Excellent	Read 152 Write 111 Mixed 77.5 SusWrite 162 92% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.7 132% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 114%
Seagate BUP Fast HDD 4TB 317 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 1.5TB free Firmware: 9408 SusWrite @10s intervals: 184 193 194 193 192 194 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	107% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 132 Mixed 85 SusWrite 192 108% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 6.8 4K Mixed 1.7 352% 3.13 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 118%

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)	81.4% Excellent	MC Read 29.3 MC Write 31.2 MC Mixed 25.9 82% 28.8 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 31.8 SC Mixed 25.7 69% 24.2 GB/s	Latency 59.9 67% 59.9 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 81.4% 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	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 $184	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