Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.1% 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	237% 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.

Very high background CPU (57%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 0 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190509
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 24 '19 at 07:57
Run Duration	224 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	57%

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PC Performing above expectations (83^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 2700-$185 123,820 User benchmarks, average bench 74% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	80.7% Excellent	Memory 90.3 1-Core 102 2-Core 238 80% 143 Pts	4-Core 383 8-Core 720 66% 552 Pts	64-Core 1090 68% 1090 Pts
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6278) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 430.64 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 116 Parallax 97.7 92% 109 fps	MRender 97 Gravity 102 Splatting 99.2 81% 99.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc M.2 PCIe SSD 1TB 29,078 User benchmarks, average bench 231% 757GB free (System drive) Firmware: ECFM12.2 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1956 1048 1051 1053 1057 1042 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	237% Outstanding	Read 1,515 Write 2,402 Mixed 1,670 SusWrite 1,201 384% 1,697 MB/s	4K Read 39.8 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 59 192% 68 MB/s	DQ Read 1,084 DQ Write 872 DQ Mixed 1,010 747% 989 MB/s
Poor: 145% ↑ This bench: 237% Great: 310%
Seagate BUP Slim BK 1TB 18,390 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 620GB free Firmware: 0107 SusWrite @10s intervals: 110 112 109 118 118 118 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	59.1% Above average	Read 91 Write 111 Mixed 101 SusWrite 114 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 3.1 4K Mixed 0.6 178% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 63%
Generic- SD/MMC 32GB 87 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 28GB free, PID 8468 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 51 51 51 51 51 51 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	37.4% Below average	Read 90 Write 51 Mixed 60 SusWrite 50.9 80% 63 MB/s	4K Read 6.7 4K Write 3.8 4K Mixed 4.9 321% 5.13 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 37.4% Great: 37%
Samsung Flash Drive 32GB 12,134 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 30GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 29 26 24 26 24 26 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	73.8% Very good	Read 213 Write 36.8 Mixed 82.3 SusWrite 25.9 93% 89.4 MB/s	4K Read 13.4 4K Write 11.1 4K Mixed 11.5 818% 12 MB/s	DQ Read 16.7 DQ Write 19.9 DQ Mixed 10.9 1,110% 15.8 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 239,203 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	MC Read 46 MC Write 26.2 MC Mixed 30.9 98% 34.4 GB/s	SC Read 25.3 SC Write 25.8 SC Mixed 27.8 75% 26.3 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 111%

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Gaming 78%

Battleship

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 74%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,917x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $125Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	823x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $150Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	605x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $255Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	458x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	405x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	258x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	175x
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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $183	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) $37	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