Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Gunboat	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 45% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 76.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	62.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	184% 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	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190718
Uptime	13.9 Days
Run Date	Dec 27 '19 at 20:07
Run Duration	174 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (76^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 way above expectations (96^th percentile)	76.4% Very good	Memory 77.5 1-Core 110 2-Core 219 76% 136 Pts	4-Core 435 8-Core 437 58% 436 Pts	64-Core 434 27% 434 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 76.4% 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: 19.12.2 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	62.4% Good	Lighting 78.7 Reflection 57.7 Parallax 111 64% 82.6 fps	MRender 58.2 Gravity 81.3 Splatting 74.4 59% 71.3 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 62.4% 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% 144GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 548 284 284 283 281 277 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	184% Outstanding	Read 1,984 Write 1,440 Mixed 535 SusWrite 326 236% 1,071 MB/s	4K Read 40.4 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 47.9 181% 66 MB/s	DQ Read 750 DQ Write 562 DQ Mixed 585 457% 632 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 184% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 199GB free Firmware: EMT21B6Q Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 7,571 Write 4,777 Mixed 5,677 1,331% 6,008 MB/s	4K Read 369 4K Write 236 4K Mixed 272 1,034% 293 MB/s	DQ Read 1,068 DQ Write 871 DQ Mixed 980 731% 973 MB/s
Poor: 79% Great: 131%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 741GB free Firmware: CC4C SusWrite @10s intervals: 178 188 196 191 195 189 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 130 Mixed 79.3 SusWrite 189 107% 146 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.9 175% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 112%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$106 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 SusWrite @10s intervals: 196 196 196 195 194 197 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	92.7% Outstanding	Read 126 Write 130 Mixed 30.2 SusWrite 196 87% 121 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 5.2 4K Mixed 2 368% 2.8 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 110%
WD My Passport 0837 1TB 3,852 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 540GB free, PID 0837 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 85 86 86 86 85 85 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	35.5% Below average	Read 79 Write 80.3 Mixed 52.2 SusWrite 85.5 101% 74.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.9 91% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 35.5% Great: 44%

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 @ 2667 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	98.4% Outstanding	MC Read 38.1 MC Write 35.3 MC Mixed 34.5 103% 36 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 35.8 SC Mixed 28.4 83% 29.1 GB/s	Latency 85.4 47% 85.4 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 96%

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

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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 $81Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,926x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $145Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	833x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $120Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	611x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $273Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	493x
RTX 3060Nvidia $266Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	466x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	406x

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 $69Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	122x

RAM
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	362x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBUnknownBench 85%, 99,207 samples	323x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $55Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	291x

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Value: 82% - Excellent

Total price: $472

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16