Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 93% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (91st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 9 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 95.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90.8% 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	322% 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

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20191127
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 11 '20 at 07:12
Run Duration	217 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X-$205 635,419 User benchmarks, average bench 86% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Memory 81.9 1-Core 154 2-Core 300 96% 179 Pts	4-Core 583 8-Core 1,095 100% 839 Pts	64-Core 1,457 90% 1,457 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 1435) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 446.14 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.8% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 117 Parallax 99.3 94% 111 fps	MRender 99.7 Gravity 103 Splatting 104 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
CT500MX500SSD4 500GB 44,418 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 250GB free Firmware: M3CR023 SusWrite @10s intervals: 456 475 476 478 478 402 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	126% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 481 Mixed 453 SusWrite 461 108% 478 MB/s	4K Read 39 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 58.1 195% 71.3 MB/s	DQ Read 389 DQ Write 364 DQ Mixed 297 245% 350 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 123%
Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 367,854 User benchmarks, average bench 276% 229GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXM7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1022 890 888 890 886 829 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	322% Outstanding	Read 2,708 Write 2,526 Mixed 1,917 SusWrite 901 450% 2,013 MB/s	4K Read 71.6 4K Write 190 4K Mixed 100 338% 121 MB/s	DQ Read 1,283 DQ Write 1,137 DQ Mixed 1,216 910% 1,212 MB/s
Poor: 178% ↑ This bench: 322% Great: 355%
Hitachi HUA723030ALA640 3TB-$71 11,382 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2TB free Firmware: MKAONS01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 138 137 139 140 139 140 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	76.5% Very good	Read 128 Write 121 Mixed 75.1 SusWrite 139 85% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.9 178% 1.33 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 87%
SanDisk Ultra 32GB 8,520 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 3GB free, PID null SusWrite @10s intervals: 37 38 15 16 23 34 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	36.5% Below average	Read 158 Write 8.8 Mixed 53.7 SusWrite 27.2 62% 61.8 MB/s	4K Read 6.8 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 1.8 154% 3.53 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 36.5% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GBF2X04HEEE35-12-K 8GBF2X04HEEE36-12-K 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 3200, 3200 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	91.4% Outstanding	MC Read 36.9 MC Write 24.3 MC Mixed 37 94% 32.7 GB/s	SC Read 25.9 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 36.4 82% 28.9 GB/s	Latency 77.1 52% 77.1 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 92%

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

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Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $84Bench 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: $526

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 $182	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) $30	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