Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 83% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 85.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	101% 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.
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	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20200713
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 09 '21 at 03:20
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 2600-$155 179,588 User benchmarks, average bench 73% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.5% Excellent	Memory 84.3 1-Core 123 2-Core 239 83% 149 Pts	4-Core 467 8-Core 741 74% 604 Pts	64-Core 1,008 62% 1,008 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 461.09 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	101% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 192 Parallax 123 101% 146 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 131 Splatting 119 100% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 24GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM06B0Q Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 489 Write 430 Mixed 307 91% 409 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 87.5 4K Mixed 40.5 148% 53.5 MB/s	DQ Read 373 DQ Write 300 DQ Mixed 152 164% 275 MB/s
Poor: 62% Great: 110%
WD Blue SATA M.2 500GB-$100 6,800 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 104GB free Firmware: X41110WD SusWrite @10s intervals: 338 305 302 306 304 304 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	94.3% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 349 Mixed 295 SusWrite 310 81% 363 MB/s	4K Read 30 4K Write 79.6 4K Mixed 34.9 132% 48.2 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 303 DQ Mixed 212 192% 294 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 94.3% Great: 103%
WD WD7501AAES-60Z2A0 750GB 1,250 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 379GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 SusWrite @10s intervals: 117 117 117 114 117 115 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	63.8% Good	Read 106 Write 105 Mixed 91.8 SusWrite 116 78% 105 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.9 186% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 71%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 625GB free Firmware: JC4B SusWrite @10s intervals: 116 119 119 120 119 119 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	68.3% Good	Read 119 Write 115 Mixed 71.8 SusWrite 119 78% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 1 180% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 68.3% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	MC Read 40.9 MC Write 37.8 MC Mixed 32.8 106% 37.2 GB/s	SC Read 24.1 SC Write 38.4 SC Mixed 27.4 86% 30 GB/s	Latency 72.9 55% 72.9 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 104%

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

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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 $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,917x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $155Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	823x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $153Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	605x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $279Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	458x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	405x

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 $56Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	291x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $525

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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