Asus PRIME B250M-A

Performance Results

 
Gaming
Gaming 91%
Nuclear submarine
Desktop
Desktop 85%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 71%
Battleship
PC StatusOverall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
ProcessorWith 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 83%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics109% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive79.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory16GB 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 VersionAlthough Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.
MotherboardAsus PRIME B250M-A  (all builds)
Memory10.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OSWindows 10
BIOS Date20170418
Uptime0 Days
Run DateNov 10 '20 at 13:26
Run Duration140 Seconds
Run User GBR-User
Background CPU8%
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 PC Performing as expected (53rd percentile)

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

Processor BenchNormalHeavyServer
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190
LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads
Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg)
Performing above expectations (84th percentile)
83% Excellent
Memory 87.6
1-Core 106
2-Core 218
78% 137 Pts
4-Core 448
8-Core 482
61% 465 Pts
64-Core 414
26% 414 Pts
Poor: 59%
This bench: 83%
Great: 89%
Graphics Card Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
AMD RX 5700-XT-$199
Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.5.1
Performing way above expectations (100th percentile)
109% Outstanding
Lighting 135
Reflection 115
Parallax 226
110% 158 fps
MRender 114
Gravity 129
Splatting 160
113% 135 fps
Poor: 91%
This bench: 109%
Great: 104%
Drives BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 275GB-$100
39GB free (System drive)
Firmware: M0CR031
SusWrite @10s intervals: 333 248 146 148 144 139 MB/s
Performing as expected (43rd percentile)
79.7% Very good
Read 418
Write 435
Mixed 380
SusWrite 193
80% 356 MB/s
4K Read 24.1
4K Write 87.2
4K Mixed 34.9
127% 48.7 MB/s
DQ Read 231
DQ Write 306
DQ Mixed 299
217% 279 MB/s
Poor: 53%
This bench: 79.7%
Great: 95%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31
180GB free
Firmware: CC4H
SusWrite @10s intervals: 98 99 97 99 97 98 MB/s
Performing below expectations (25th percentile)
78.7% Very good
Read 176
Write 147
Mixed 68.8
SusWrite 98
90% 122 MB/s
4K Read 1.1
4K Write 1.4
4K Mixed 0.8
161% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 55%
This bench: 78.7%
Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$48
437GB free
Firmware: CC26
SusWrite @10s intervals: 151 150 151 149 151 151 MB/s
Performing as expected (57th percentile)
96.9% Outstanding
Read 187
Write 153
Mixed 83.5
SusWrite 151
105% 144 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 1.6
4K Mixed 0.7
137% 1 MB/s
Poor: 63%
This bench: 96.9%
Great: 114%
Memory Kit BenchMulti coreSingle coreLatency
Corsair CMK8GX4M2A2400C16 CMK8GX4M2A2400C14 CMK8GX4M2A2400C16 CMK8GX4M2A2400C14 16GB
2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz
4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB
Performing below potential (8th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP
67.1% Good
MC Read 23.3
MC Write 27.3
MC Mixed 23.6
71% 24.7 GB/s
SC Read 12.4
SC Write 20.9
SC Mixed 11.2
42% 14.8 GB/s
Latency 69.9
57% 69.9 ns
Poor: 67%
This bench: 67.1%
Great: 87%

 System Memory Latency Ladder

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

Typical PRIME B250M-A Builds (Compare 4,555 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 41%
Speed boat
Desktop
Desktop 75%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 33%
Sail boat

Motherboard: Asus PRIME B250M-A - $74

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 73% - Very good Total price: $385
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HDDRAMUSB
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