Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 42% Speed boat


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 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 72.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	64.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	189% 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

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190718
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 30 '19 at 02:03
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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
AMD Ryzen 3 1300X-$102 38,959 User benchmarks, average bench 65% AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	72.1% Very good	Memory 70.3 1-Core 108 2-Core 220 73% 133 Pts	4-Core 425 8-Core 434 57% 429 Pts	64-Core 415 26% 415 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E331) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 19.9.2 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	64.3% Good	Lighting 82 Reflection 57.2 Parallax 106 67% 81.6 fps	MRender 58.1 Gravity 82.7 Splatting 74.5 59% 71.8 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 154GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 532 319 319 318 317 315 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	189% Outstanding	Read 1,933 Write 1,272 Mixed 604 SusWrite 353 229% 1,041 MB/s	4K Read 49.9 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 52.6 201% 70.7 MB/s	DQ Read 732 DQ Write 570 DQ Mixed 574 450% 625 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 189% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 199GB free Firmware: EMT21B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 439 476 473 478 481 480 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	126% Outstanding	Read 494 Write 482 Mixed 403 SusWrite 471 104% 463 MB/s	4K Read 44.3 4K Write 99.3 4K Mixed 59.2 196% 67.6 MB/s	DQ Read 387 DQ Write 363 DQ Mixed 370 279% 373 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 131%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$25 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 743GB free Firmware: CC4C SusWrite @10s intervals: 193 190 194 193 192 195 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Read 196 Write 135 Mixed 85 SusWrite 193 111% 152 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 1 182% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 112%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$106 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 SusWrite @10s intervals: 189 198 195 195 193 194 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Read 182 Write 194 Mixed 28.3 SusWrite 194 108% 149 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 5.1 4K Mixed 1.9 351% 2.7 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GB 19,779 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	78.2% Very good	MC Read 30.1 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 27.1 82% 28.5 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 27.2 SC Mixed 22.6 65% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 101 40% 101 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 78.2% Great: 96%

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Gaming 78%

Battleship

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $86Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,922x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $150Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	831x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $120Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	610x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $288Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	490x
RTX 3060Nvidia $266Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	465x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	405x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	259x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	177x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	121x

RAM
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	361x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBUnknownBench 85%, 99,207 samples	321x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $55Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	291x

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Value: 79% - Very good

Total price: $492

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16