Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


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 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 71.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	17.1% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	171% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

3 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	3.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20210303
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 15 '21 at 14:11
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	IDN-User
Background CPU	3%

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
AMD Ryzen 5 3400G-$101 93,718 User benchmarks, average bench 68% AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	71.4% Very good	Memory 64.1 1-Core 118 2-Core 225 74% 136 Pts	4-Core 423 8-Core 651 66% 537 Pts	64-Core 649 40% 649 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 Graphics 47,368 User benchmarks, average bench 16% AMD(1002 15D8) 2GB Ram: 2GB, Driver: 21.3.1 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	17.1% Very poor	Lighting 22.6 Reflection 15.3 Parallax 30.2 18% 22.7 fps	MRender 11.6 Gravity 26.3 Splatting 16 15% 18 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 17.1% Great: 18%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc M.2 PCIe SSD 256GB 15,205 User benchmarks, average bench 162% 195GB free (System drive) Firmware: S0614B0G Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 357 412 433 452 381 147 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	171% Outstanding	Read 1,611 Write 1,125 Mixed 1,028 SusWrite 364 229% 1032 MB/s	4K Read 46.7 4K Write 150 4K Mixed 44.5 207% 80.4 MB/s	DQ Read 768 DQ Write 228 DQ Mixed 116 185% 371 MB/s
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 171% Great: 230%
WD WD10SPZX-00HKTT0 1TB 294,991 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 100GB free Firmware: 03.01A03 SusWrite @10s intervals: 113 116 119 119 118 120 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	71.9% Very good	Read 132 Write 83.3 Mixed 62.1 SusWrite 118 72% 98.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 3.4 4K Mixed 0.7 178% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 79%
SMI USB disk 8GB 5,941 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 7GB free, PID null SusWrite @10s intervals: 6.8 7.6 7.6 6.8 7.5 7.5 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	6.3% Terrible	Read 20.9 Write 3.7 Mixed 7.7 SusWrite 7.3 11% 9.9 MB/s	4K Read 7.1 4K Write 0 4K Mixed 0 26% 2.37 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.3% Great: 10%
SanDisk Ultra Flair USB 3.0 32GB-$8 9,864 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 23GB free, PID 5591 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 60 65 31 24 25 24 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	39.9% Below average	Read 161 Write 60 Mixed 75.8 SusWrite 38.2 97% 83.8 MB/s	4K Read 6.2 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 1.8 159% 3.4 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 39.9% Great: 39%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown D4S4GL24A16 2x4GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	62.6% Good	MC Read 22.6 MC Write 20.2 MC Mixed 21.1 61% 21.3 GB/s	SC Read 21.8 SC Write 30.2 SC Mixed 23.5 72% 25.2 GB/s	Latency 116 34% 116 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 66%

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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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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 $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