Asrock B460M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	76.4% 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	167% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B460M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20200723
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 30 '20 at 16:18
Run Duration	143 Seconds
Run User	VNM-User
Background CPU	15%

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PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i3-10100-$94 24,563 User benchmarks, average bench 80% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Memory 90.4 1-Core 130 2-Core 250 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 454 8-Core 682 71% 568 Pts	64-Core 638 40% 638 Pts
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 86%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super)-$195 428,800 User benchmarks, average bench 71% MSI(1462 C758) CLim: 2145 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 441.08 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	76.4% Very good	Lighting 95.8 Reflection 85.2 Parallax 88.1 78% 89.7 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 78.8 Splatting 75.7 73% 91.6 fps
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 76%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Gigabyte GP-GSM2NE3128GNTD 128GB 2,263 User benchmarks, average bench 140% 79GB free (System drive) Firmware: EDFM00.2 SusWrite @10s intervals: 409 540 410 123 123 122 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	167% Outstanding	Read 1,267 Write 548 Mixed 709 SusWrite 288 155% 703 MB/s	4K Read 50.4 4K Write 154 4K Mixed 68.5 246% 91 MB/s	DQ Read 484 DQ Write 561 DQ Mixed 466 367% 504 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 167% Great: 184%
PNY SSD2SC128GM1P3DSE04TH 128GB 60 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 73GB free Firmware: Q0512A SusWrite @10s intervals: 154 158 158 159 159 159 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	72.8% Very good	Read 494 Write 158 Mixed 218 SusWrite 158 57% 257 MB/s	4K Read 19.7 4K Write 98.4 4K Mixed 31.6 122% 49.9 MB/s	DQ Read 104 DQ Write 159 DQ Mixed 113 91% 125 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 73%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$39 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 922GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 151 156 154 156 157 155 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	97% Outstanding	Read 183 Write 149 Mixed 100 SusWrite 155 108% 147 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1.1 218% 1.6 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D26BFSEK.8FD 2x8GB 9,486 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	77.4% Very good	MC Read 30.7 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 23.4 79% 27.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 27.1 SC Mixed 24.5 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 96%

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

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Workstation 79%

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Motherboard: Asrock B460M Steel Legend

CPU
Core i5-10400FIntel $98Bench 85%, 153,026 samples	359x
Core i5-10400Intel $126Bench 84%, 71,804 samples	116x
Core i7-10700Intel $226Bench 93%, 71,010 samples	84x

GPU
RTX 3060Nvidia $266Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	77x
GTX 1660S (Super)Nvidia $195Bench 71%, 428,800 samples	72x
RTX 3060-TiNvidia $340Bench 128%, 442,467 samples	67x

SSD
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	24x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $69Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	22x
Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBWD $68Bench 204%, 97,624 samples	20x

RAM
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBUnknownBench 85%, 99,207 samples	34x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $59Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	32x
DDR4 3200 2x8GBUnknownBench 81%, 16,423 samples	31x

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Value: 90% - Excellent

Total price: $402

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $170	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	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 $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