Asus STRIX B250F GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	87% 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	39.7% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Very high background CPU (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX B250F GAMING (all builds)
Memory	4.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161110
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Sep 20 '17 at 17:20
Run Duration	163 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	43%

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PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	79.6% Very good	Memory 90.2 1-Core 124 2-Core 251 86% 155 Pts	4-Core 393 8-Core 435 54% 414 Pts	64-Core 454 28% 454 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8598) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2100 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 120 Parallax 113 89% 114 fps	MRender 99.1 Gravity 99.4 Splatting 104 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ AGILITY3 60GB 14,293 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 23GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 86 86 13767715 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 27960237101569 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1713 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 135 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 13767715 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 13767715 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 13767715 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 6797 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8536 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8536 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9253	39.7% Below average	Read 201 Write 56.4 Mixed 79 24% 112 MB/s	4K Read 25.1 4K Write 60.4 4K Mixed 13.5 87% 33 MB/s	DQ Read 74.2 DQ Write 55.1 DQ Mixed 22.8 28% 50.7 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 39.7% Great: 51%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$31 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 474GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 169 2283 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 329 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1023 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 309 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 80 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2714 (C2) HDA temperature 119 111 24 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	82.7% Excellent	Read 154 Write 134 Mixed 118 101% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 2.54 4K Mixed 0.32 115% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 109%
WD WD4000BEVT-00ZAT 400GB 78 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 335GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 6 (03) Spinup time 186 183 1691 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2654 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8596 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2226 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 734 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 142 142 176651 (C2) HDA temperature 125 96 22 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 97 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	40.9% Average	Read 69.2 Write 73.2 Mixed 65.5 52% 69.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.29 84% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 40.9% Great: 41%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G4D240FSA.8FAR 2x4GB 471 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	76.6% Very good	MC Read 28.4 MC Write 29.7 MC Mixed 24 78% 27.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 26.7 SC Mixed 22.5 63% 22 GB/s	Latency 67 60% 67 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 89%

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Desktop 83%

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Workstation 41%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX B250F GAMING - $182

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	591x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	542x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	321x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	407x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	293x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	185x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	95x
PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 177%, 99,566 samples	80x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	58x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	88x
BLS8G4D26BFSBK.8FBD 2x8GBCrucialBench 80%, 5,007 samples	62x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	53x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $566

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16