Asus B150M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Destroyer	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	76.5% 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	60.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus B150M-A (all builds)
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	5 Days
Run Date	Mar 15 '18 at 20:57
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	18%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	74.9% Very good	Memory 84 1-Core 108 2-Core 187 74% 126 Pts	4-Core 354 8-Core 609 58% 482 Pts	64-Core 614 38% 614 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76.5% Very good	Lighting 95.7 Reflection 101 Parallax 100 78% 98.8 fps	MRender 90.4 Gravity 85.7 Splatting 92.3 74% 89.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 750GB-$310 3,724 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 371GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17053 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2146 (B1) Unknown 90 90 112 (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 66 45 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1967 (F1) Unknown 99 99 44994840226	93.2% Outstanding	Read 501 Write 348 Mixed 352 89% 400 MB/s	4K Read 42.6 4K Write 66.9 4K Mixed 27.3 135% 45.6 MB/s	DQ Read 328 DQ Write 212 DQ Mixed 89.4 115% 210 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 125%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 15GB free (System drive) Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8820169881 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 57810259815848 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 355 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 56 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 35 44 64427393059 (C2) HDA temperature 35 44 64427393059 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 115 115 8820169881 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 115 115 8820169881 (CC) Soft ECC correction 115 115 8820169881 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 92 92 85899345920 (E9) Unknown 0 0 44503 (EA) Unknown 0 0 35525 (F1) Unknown 0 0 35525 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5417 (F4) Unknown 89 89 23527783	60.1% Good	Read 438 Write 122 Mixed 156 52% 239 MB/s	4K Read 27.1 4K Write 95.8 4K Mixed 12.3 108% 45 MB/s	DQ Read 71 DQ Write 135 DQ Mixed 34.9 46% 80.4 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 73%
Seagate ST9500420AS 1TB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 632GB free Firmware: MS2OA7C0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 97 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 100 69 (03) Spinup time 127 100 12896698548 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 4346 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 110 100 36 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 19597 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 426 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 100 100 65535 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 94 85900722216 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 58 338034723 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4384 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4384 (C2) HDA temperature 171 146 180389412899 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 17	86.9% Excellent	Read 149 Write 155 Mixed 152 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 0.84 4K Mixed 0.2 57% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 87%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$49 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 246GB free Firmware: 0002SDM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 22585397 (03) Spinup time 99 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1394 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 12930393401 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14058 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 911 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 47 655622178 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 34 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 428654 (C2) HDA temperature 34 53 25769803810 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 46 43 22585397 (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 16857746644119 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1121365240 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1304527929 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	44.4% Average	Read 76.6 Write 78.2 Mixed 81.9 60% 78.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 0.89 4K Mixed 0.34 69% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 44.4% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GB-$42 66,222 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 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	64.9% Good	MC Read 25.7 MC Write 24.6 MC Mixed 19.9 67% 23.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.1 SC Write 18.4 SC Mixed 19.7 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 73.5 54% 73.5 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.9% Great: 88%

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

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 26%

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Motherboard: Asus B150M-A - $285

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	254x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	243x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	233x

GPU
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	136x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	130x
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	119x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	94x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	46x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	40x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	41x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x4GBHyperX $67Bench 69%, 46,617 samples	39x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	27x

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Value: 49% - Average

Total price: $888

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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