Asus STRIX B250I GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 28% Raft	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 23% Surfboard


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 good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	34.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	243% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX B250I GAMING (all builds)
Memory	4.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170410
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 30 '17 at 20:21
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	2%

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 i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	71.3% Very good	Memory 55.9 1-Core 120 2-Core 205 69% 127 Pts	4-Core 503 8-Core 472 66% 488 Pts	64-Core 495 31% 495 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% EVGA(3842 1962) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1481 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	34.7% Below average	Lighting 44.6 Reflection 44.2 Parallax 39.3 36% 42.7 fps	MRender 39.5 Gravity 40.8 Splatting 35.9 31% 38.7 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 34.7% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 176GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 281 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 143 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 70 54 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 18 (F1) Unknown 99 99 450755138	126% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 489 Mixed 500 111% 498 MB/s	4K Read 42.4 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 54.9 196% 71.1 MB/s	DQ Read 372 DQ Write 332 DQ Mixed 144 165% 283 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 124%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 71GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	243% Outstanding	Read 2,671 Write 1,104 Mixed 1,301 370% 1,692 MB/s	4K Read 59.3 4K Write 144 4K Mixed 29.3 204% 77.6 MB/s	DQ Read 57.6 DQ Write 402 DQ Mixed 28.5 81% 163 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 243% Great: 236%
Seagate ST2000LM007-1R8174 2TB 71,657 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 1.5TB free Firmware: SBK2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 70 64 9361645 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 318 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 3812268 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -91929480003228 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 180 (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 76 45 404095000 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2057 (C2) HDA temperature 24 55 60129542168 (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 -59107339927399 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2600574944 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1559377138 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	70.3% Very good	Read 126 Write 118 Mixed 84 81% 109 MB/s	4K Read 1.14 4K Write 4.86 4K Mixed 0.6 204% 2.2 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 1x8GB 90 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1 of 2 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	35% Below average	MC Read 13.5 MC Write 12.7 MC Mixed 10.4 35% 12.2 GB/s	SC Read 9.7 SC Write 12.7 SC Mixed 11.3 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 140 28% 140 ns
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 35% Great: 65%

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Workstation 41%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX B250I GAMING

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	38x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	32x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	30x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	32x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	30x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	24x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	12x
660p NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBIntel $74Bench 191%, 163,917 samples	10x
LENSE20256GMSP34MEAT2TA 256GBBench 113%, 2,581 samples	8x

RAM
F4 DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 74%, 13,788 samples	10x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	9x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	6x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $383

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16