Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 94% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (93rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 7 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	91.6% 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	324% 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.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20191127
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 23 '20 at 06:40
Run Duration	205 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X-$205 635,419 User benchmarks, average bench 86% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Memory 81.3 1-Core 154 2-Core 300 96% 178 Pts	4-Core 586 8-Core 1,093 100% 840 Pts	64-Core 1,452 90% 1,452 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 1435) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2029 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 446.14 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.6% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 118 Parallax 101 95% 112 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 105 Splatting 106 85% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
CT500MX500SSD4 500GB 44,418 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 250GB free Firmware: M3CR023 SusWrite @10s intervals: 446 444 478 480 415 279 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	125% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 478 Mixed 456 SusWrite 424 106% 469 MB/s	4K Read 39.2 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 59.9 198% 72.1 MB/s	DQ Read 390 DQ Write 366 DQ Mixed 298 246% 352 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 123%
Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 367,854 User benchmarks, average bench 276% 230GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXM7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1143 893 891 892 895 853 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	324% Outstanding	Read 2,708 Write 2,525 Mixed 1,929 SusWrite 928 452% 2,022 MB/s	4K Read 71.7 4K Write 191 4K Mixed 101 339% 121 MB/s	DQ Read 1,273 DQ Write 1,151 DQ Mixed 1,220 913% 1,215 MB/s
Poor: 178% ↑ This bench: 324% Great: 355%
Hitachi HUA723030ALA640 3TB-$37 11,382 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2TB free Firmware: MKAONS01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 140 137 138 139 139 139 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	Read 148 Write 145 Mixed 75.8 SusWrite 139 93% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.9 178% 1.33 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GBF2X04HEEE35-12-K 8GBF2X04HEEE36-12-K 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 3200, 3200 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	91.9% Outstanding	MC Read 37.1 MC Write 24.4 MC Mixed 37.1 94% 32.9 GB/s	SC Read 26.5 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 37.6 84% 29.5 GB/s	Latency 78.2 51% 78.2 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 92%

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

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,917x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $155Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	823x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $134Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	605x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $255Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	460x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	405x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	258x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	176x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	118x

RAM
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	359x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBUnknownBench 85%, 99,207 samples	317x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $56Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	291x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $525

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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