Asus B150M-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	67.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
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.

Motherboard	Asus B150M-A (all builds)
Memory	5.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160125
Uptime	1.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 10 '18 at 11:57
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	MCO-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6400-$79 171,457 User benchmarks, average bench 61% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	78.8% Very good	Memory 89 1-Core 105 2-Core 206 77% 133 Pts	4-Core 398 8-Core 394 53% 396 Pts	64-Core 401 25% 401 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 367C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1599 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	67.2% Good	Lighting 83.9 Reflection 76.3 Parallax 62.8 68% 74.3 fps	MRender 84.7 Gravity 82.2 Splatting 73.8 65% 80.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 67.2% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$78 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 1.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 170 170 4483 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 219 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 601 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 217 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1231 (C2) HDA temperature 119 111 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	78.4% Very good	Read 135 Write 138 Mixed 138 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.21 92% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 84%
WD Blue 160GB (2007)-$26 56,540 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 16GB free Firmware: 58.01D58 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 154 153 3258 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7903 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 24981 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5500 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1909 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8358 (C2) HDA temperature 112 100 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	28.3% Poor	Read 50.8 Write 47.4 Mixed 56.9 39% 51.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.32 81% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 28.3% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 1x8GB-$25 15,315 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	42.8% Average	MC Read 15 MC Write 14.9 MC Mixed 12.8 41% 14.2 GB/s	SC Read 12.3 SC Write 14.3 SC Mixed 13.4 38% 13.3 GB/s	Latency 68.5 58% 68.5 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 42.8% Great: 44%

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

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Gaming 30%

Sail boat

Desktop 79%

Battleship

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 $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