Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.3% 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	228% 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.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20191127
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 16 '20 at 20:06
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X-$210 159,077 User benchmarks, average bench 76% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Memory 84.5 1-Core 127 2-Core 240 84% 150 Pts	4-Core 484 8-Core 887 82% 685 Pts	64-Core 1,299 80% 1,299 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 85A0) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 432.0 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83.3% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 114 Parallax 96.2 84% 104 fps	MRender 98.6 Gravity 99 Splatting 103 82% 100 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black SN750 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB (2019)-$37 109,999 User benchmarks, average bench 244% 426GB free (System drive) Firmware: 102000WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 697 839 838 696 306 672 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	228% Outstanding	Read 1,785 Write 2,153 Mixed 1622 SusWrite 674 350% 1,559 MB/s	4K Read 47.7 4K Write 171 4K Mixed 67.2 249% 95.2 MB/s	DQ Read 968 DQ Write 797 DQ Mixed 769 607% 845 MB/s
Poor: 168% ↑ This bench: 228% Great: 297%
Seagate ST3500414CS 500GB 23,667 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 220GB free Firmware: CA14 SusWrite @10s intervals: 86 85 87 87 88 87 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	50.2% Above average	Read 88.2 Write 81 Mixed 49.5 SusWrite 86.4 56% 76.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.8 145% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 50.2% Great: 61%
Microsoft Storage Space Device 3TB 8,194 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1TB free Firmware: 0.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 75 73 72 84 105 69 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	53.6% Above average	Read 107 Write 73.7 Mixed 53.8 SusWrite 79.7 58% 78.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.2 4K Write 0.8 4K Mixed 0.3 56% 0.43 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 112%
SanDisk Cruzer Edge 16GB 6,219 User benchmarks, average bench 10% 11GB free, PID 556b Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 12 13 13 13 13 13 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	14.3% Very poor	Read 26 Write 12.8 Mixed 8.5 SusWrite 12.7 18% 15 MB/s	4K Read 8.3 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 2.8 191% 4.33 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 14.3% Great: 13%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 30,943 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2866 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	98.4% Outstanding	MC Read 39.2 MC Write 36.1 MC Mixed 31.8 102% 35.7 GB/s	SC Read 25.8 SC Write 33.8 SC Mixed 27.7 83% 29.1 GB/s	Latency 72.7 55% 72.7 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 103%

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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 $82Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,916x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $125Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	823x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $150Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	603x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $270Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	458x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	404x

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 $63Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	290x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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