Asus PRIME B250M-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 6% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 82.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	4.85% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B250M-A (all builds)
Memory	6.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180511
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 29 '18 at 04:34
Run Duration	128 Seconds
Run User	TWN-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7400-$110 234,266 User benchmarks, average bench 64% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.9% Excellent	Memory 91.9 1-Core 112 2-Core 217 81% 140 Pts	4-Core 428 8-Core 425 57% 426 Pts	64-Core 422 26% 422 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 740 30,433 User benchmarks, average bench 7% Asus(1043 84D0) 2GB CLim: 993 MHz, MLim: 445 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	4.85% Terrible	Lighting 3.77 Reflection 4.96 Parallax 8.72 3% 5.82 fps	MRender 8 Gravity 11 Splatting 11 8% 9.99 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 4.85% Great: 8%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 760p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$33 20,095 User benchmarks, average bench 190% 43GB free (System drive) Firmware: Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 2,272 Write 1,203 Mixed 1,059 332% 1,511 MB/s	4K Read 50.7 4K Write 200 4K Mixed 96.5 306% 116 MB/s	DQ Read 835 DQ Write 657 DQ Mixed 650 513% 714 MB/s
Poor: 131% Great: 244%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 21GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 SusWrite @10s intervals: 62 62 60 65 58 62 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	43.2% Average	Read 88.5 Write 71.9 Mixed 66.6 SusWrite 61.6 54% 72.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.7 142% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 43.2% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905702-010.A00G 1x8GB 1,404 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	45.7% Average	MC Read 16.5 MC Write 16.6 MC Mixed 12.3 43% 15.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 16.6 SC Mixed 13.4 42% 14.6 GB/s	Latency 64.2 62% 64.2 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 45.7% Great: 47%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Typical PRIME B250M-A Builds (Compare 4,550 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Asus PRIME B250M-A - $74

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	1,289x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	958x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	710x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	528x
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: 72% - Very good

Total price: $400

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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