Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Boot Drive	47.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (46%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	21.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20201103
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 14 '21 at 00:39
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	46%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 3 3300X-$150 15,293 User benchmarks, average bench 80% AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	69% Good	Memory 69 1-Core 125 2-Core 211 75% 135 Pts	4-Core 370 8-Core 719 65% 545 Pts	64-Core 714 44% 714 Pts
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 89%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX500 240GB-$29 142,801 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: M6CR013 SusWrite @10s intervals: 358 46 68 68 78 30 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	47.8% Average	Read 343 Write 342 Mixed 2.8 SusWrite 108 44% 199 MB/s	4K Read 0 4K Write 25.2 4K Mixed 23.4 43% 16.2 MB/s	DQ Read 217 DQ Write 343 DQ Mixed 47 101% 202 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 92%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 389GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 SusWrite @10s intervals: 98 97 100 100 98 96 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	62.7% Good	Read 120 Write 115 Mixed 63 SusWrite 98 73% 99.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.9 164% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 69%
WD WD10SPZX-00HKTT0 1TB 294,991 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 388GB free Firmware: 02.01A02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 89 88 91 90 89 91 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	53.3% Above average	Read 95 Write 77 Mixed 56 SusWrite 89.6 58% 79.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 4.5 4K Mixed 0.3 142% 1.8 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 79%
Toshiba Hayabusa 8GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 4% 1GB free, PID null SusWrite @10s intervals: 3.8 4 4.4 4.5 4.5 4.2 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	4.5% Terrible	Read 20 Write 0.7 Mixed 4.7 SusWrite 4.2 7% 7.4 MB/s	4K Read 2.9 4K Write 0 4K Mixed 0 11% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.5% Great: 5%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Adata DDR4 3200 4x8GB 25,190 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	89.5% Excellent	MC Read 37.9 MC Write 23.5 MC Mixed 37.4 94% 32.9 GB/s	SC Read 25.4 SC Write 21.2 SC Mixed 31.5 74% 26 GB/s	Latency 104 38% 104 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 113%

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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 $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	604x

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	291x

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Total price: $526

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $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