Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 97% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 89% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 86.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	107% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	122% 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, 3 years ago, 3 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190731
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 05 '20 at 05:11
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X-$120 142,983 User benchmarks, average bench 74% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	86.8% Excellent	Memory 84.8 1-Core 124 2-Core 244 84% 151 Pts	4-Core 477 8-Core 788 77% 633 Pts	64-Core 965 60% 965 Pts
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 86%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3717) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 445.75 Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 147 Parallax 139 114% 142 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 135 Splatting 110 98% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 259GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 443 434 440 432 438 434 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	122% Outstanding	Read 501 Write 486 Mixed 386 SusWrite 437 102% 453 MB/s	4K Read 42.2 4K Write 99.2 4K Mixed 57.2 190% 66.2 MB/s	DQ Read 382 DQ Write 346 DQ Mixed 364 273% 364 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 40GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 469 485 487 490 362 107 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	119% Outstanding	Read 495 Write 485 Mixed 409 SusWrite 400 101% 447 MB/s	4K Read 41.9 4K Write 94.5 4K Mixed 55.9 185% 64.1 MB/s	DQ Read 385 DQ Write 360 DQ Mixed 368 277% 371 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 134%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 1TB free Firmware: CC45 SusWrite @10s intervals: 153 151 146 149 154 146 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	76.2% Very good	Read 114 Write 82.7 Mixed 25.2 SusWrite 150 67% 93.1 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 4.9 4K Mixed 1.8 332% 2.57 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 94%
SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 123GB 2,481 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 71GB free, PID 5591 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 77 42 39 40 37 42 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	39.4% Below average	Read 146 Write 73 Mixed 77.5 SusWrite 46.3 103% 85.7 MB/s	4K Read 5.9 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 2.6 185% 3.57 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 39.4% Great: 39%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3200 C18 2x8GB 30,532 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	MC Read 45 MC Write 40.5 MC Mixed 34.5 114% 40 GB/s	SC Read 26.5 SC Write 41.4 SC Mixed 30.5 94% 32.8 GB/s	Latency 72.1 56% 72.1 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

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

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Gaming 78%

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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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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $524

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