Asus STRIX B250F GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 48% Yacht


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 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 86%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	261% 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	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.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX B250F GAMING (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170908
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 29 '17 at 18:37
Run Duration	246 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	2%

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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 i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	86% Excellent	Memory 92.7 1-Core 124 2-Core 243 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 434 8-Core 581 64% 508 Pts	64-Core 634 39% 634 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	60.4% Good	Lighting 76.8 Reflection 72.7 Parallax 62 63% 70.5 fps	MRender 69.1 Gravity 67.5 Splatting 69.3 56% 68.6 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 192GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	261% Outstanding	Read 2,745 Write 1,097 Mixed 1,299 375% 1,713 MB/s	4K Read 57.7 4K Write 130 4K Mixed 42.8 211% 76.8 MB/s	DQ Read 565 DQ Write 408 DQ Mixed 203 228% 392 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 261% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 77GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 15110 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1077 (B1) Unknown 85 85 300 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 46 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 35 (F1) Unknown 99 99 30179059086	115% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 410 Mixed 422 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 45.7 4K Write 93.1 4K Mixed 46.7 178% 61.9 MB/s	DQ Read 375 DQ Write 271 DQ Mixed 109 140% 252 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 115%
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB-$35 20,420 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 12GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7909 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 573 (B1) Unknown 97 97 13 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 58 48 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 27 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3450734228	86.3% Excellent	Read 491 Write 274 Mixed 276 76% 347 MB/s	4K Read 40 4K Write 60.6 4K Mixed 27.3 128% 42.6 MB/s	DQ Read 354 DQ Write 181 DQ Mixed 59.9 100% 198 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 110%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 221438240 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 396 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 30076852 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5619 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 401 (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 64 53 623050788 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1516 (C2) HDA temperature 36 47 73014444068 (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 26345329399292 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21595283285 (F2) Unknown 100 253 185471035062	79.2% Very good	Read 121 Write 155 Mixed 114 97% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 5.16 4K Mixed 0.46 164% 2.01 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 94%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 750GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 94 93674812 (03) Spinup time 95 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 96 945 (05) Reallocated sector count 93 93 304 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 188808506 (09) Power-on hours count 93 67 6637 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 98 472 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885098505 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 50 589430818 (C2) HDA temperature 34 50 68719476770 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 22 19 93674812 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 22 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 137993004297410 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3427996309 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3797934801	55.4% Above average	Read 107 Write 85.9 Mixed 83.2 69% 92.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.24 67% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 55.4% Great: 68%
Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3 USB 3.0 16GB-$7 60,636 User benchmarks, average bench 13% 11GB free, PID 1666 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	22.1% Poor	Read 107 Write 15.3 Mixed 33.4 50% 51.8 MB/s	4K Read 9.67 4K Write 0.31 4K Mixed 0.03 48% 3.34 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 22.1% Great: 23%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GB 122,822 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68% Good	MC Read 25.4 MC Write 25.1 MC Mixed 20 67% 23.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 25 SC Mixed 22.9 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 62.8 64% 62.8 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 90%

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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	586x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	540x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	320x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	406x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	292x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	182x

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 $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