Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Battle cruiser	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	72.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at 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, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20200713
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 21 '21 at 16:22
Run Duration	205 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 3600-$83 1,072,639 User benchmarks, average bench 83% AM4, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	80.4% Excellent	Memory 80.5 1-Core 138 2-Core 284 90% 168 Pts	4-Core 450 8-Core 531 64% 491 Pts	64-Core 533 33% 533 Pts
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super)-$239 428,800 User benchmarks, average bench 71% EVGA(3842 1068) CLim: 2145 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 466.11 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	72.6% Very good	Lighting 90.7 Reflection 89.7 Parallax 83.2 74% 87.9 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 79.9 Splatting 70.8 70% 88 fps
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 76%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force LE 240GB-$85 14,954 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 25GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFC12.2 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 511 Write 496 Mixed 415 106% 474 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 98.3 4K Mixed 42.2 156% 57.7 MB/s	DQ Read 324 DQ Write 366 DQ Mixed 184 183% 291 MB/s
Poor: 56% Great: 97%
Asgard AN3 1TNVMe-M.2/80 1TB 744 User benchmarks, average bench 271% 804GB free Firmware: 42A7T36A Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 2279 2212 2287 2293 2285 2284 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	392% Outstanding	Read 2,607 Write 2,196 Mixed 1,526 SusWrite 2,273 483% 2,150 MB/s	4K Read 67.1 4K Write 169 4K Mixed 88.7 305% 108 MB/s	DQ Read 1,298 DQ Write 1,155 DQ Mixed 516 581% 989 MB/s
Poor: 162% ↑ This bench: 392% Great: 377%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 256GB free Firmware: KC45 SusWrite @10s intervals: 115 122 123 123 122 122 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	54.1% Above average	Read 67.5 Write 63.8 Mixed 45.9 SusWrite 121 55% 74.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.7 120% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 54.1% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CL18-22-22 D4-3600 2x8GB 2,960 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	91.8% Outstanding	MC Read 39.6 MC Write 23.8 MC Mixed 35.9 95% 33.1 GB/s	SC Read 25.6 SC Write 23.5 SC Mixed 35.6 81% 28.2 GB/s	Latency 79.6 50% 79.6 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 109%

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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	1,918x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $150Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	824x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $119Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	606x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $255Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	460x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	405x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	258x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	176x
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 $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16