Asus PRIME B250M-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 77.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	63.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	238% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 (79%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B250M-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	3.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170710
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	Dec 08 '17 at 13:52
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	79%

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PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600-$89 39,689 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	77.8% Very good	Memory 86.6 1-Core 126 2-Core 250 86% 154 Pts	4-Core 393 8-Core 435 54% 414 Pts	64-Core 486 30% 486 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AE) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.5% Good	Lighting 80.1 Reflection 78.3 Parallax 77.9 65% 78.8 fps	MRender 71.6 Gravity 71.8 Splatting 75.5 60% 73 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 99,566 User benchmarks, average bench 177% 172GB free (System drive) Firmware: 401Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	238% Outstanding	Read 2,495 Write 879 Mixed 1,126 327% 1,500 MB/s	4K Read 52.9 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 58.9 217% 75.8 MB/s	DQ Read 537 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 181 193% 328 MB/s
Poor: 106% ↑ This bench: 238% Great: 236%
Samsung HD321KJ 320GB-$42 12,070 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 256GB free Firmware: CP100-12 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 5632 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6863 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14273 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3723 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 343895 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 97 97 401 (BE) vendor-specific 86 52 14 (C2) HDA temperature 190 91 16 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 343895 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 2394 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 96 96 1629	40% Below average	Read 67.9 Write 71.4 Mixed 58.2 49% 65.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.11 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.25 55% 0.51 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 40% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905678-014.A00G 2x4GB 1,428 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	43.3% Average	MC Read 15.6 MC Write 15.9 MC Mixed 13.3 43% 14.9 GB/s	SC Read 10.9 SC Write 13.6 SC Mixed 9.8 33% 11.4 GB/s	Latency 70.8 56% 70.8 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 43.3% Great: 87%

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

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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-PLUS - $100

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	357x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	350x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	266x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	212x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	195x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	162x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	52x
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	46x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	43x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	73x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	25x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	24x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $411

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 $179	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