Asrock X299 Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 86% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 intensive workstation, and even full-fledged server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	80.6% 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	135% 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	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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asrock X299 Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20191216
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Jun 23 '21 at 01:09
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing below expectations (40^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i9-10900X 6,322 User benchmarks, average bench 85% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 10 cores, 20 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	93.2% Outstanding	Memory 82.8 1-Core 142 2-Core 290 93% 172 Pts	4-Core 553 8-Core 1,174 101% 863 Pts	64-Core 1,933 120% 1,933 Pts
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3236) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 466.77 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.6% Excellent	Lighting 100 Reflection 116 Parallax 101 82% 106 fps	MRender 99.6 Gravity 101 Splatting 90.2 79% 96.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 1TB 11,317 User benchmarks, average bench 264% 86GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 706 364 230 214 215 208 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	135% Outstanding	Read 1048 Write 672 Mixed 480 SusWrite 323 140% 631 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 99.3 4K Mixed 48 171% 61.6 MB/s	DQ Read 362 DQ Write 544 DQ Mixed 388 312% 431 MB/s
Poor: 120% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 445%
Apple HDD HTS547575A9E384 750GB 514 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 50GB free Firmware: JE4AD70F SusWrite @10s intervals: 48 47 51 49 50 50 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	28.2% Poor	Read 48.8 Write 50.3 Mixed 33.3 SusWrite 49.1 33% 45.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.5 97% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 28.2% Great: 55%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x16GB 46,387 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 2 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	61.3% Good	MC Read 21.5 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 18.1 65% 22.6 GB/s	SC Read 7.8 SC Write 21.9 SC Mixed 10.6 38% 13.4 GB/s	Latency 75.4 53% 75.4 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 164%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Typical X299 Steel Legend Builds (Compare 212 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 155%

UFO

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 168%

UFO

Motherboard: Asrock X299 Steel Legend

CPU
Core i9-10900XIntelBench 85%, 6,322 samples	71x
Core i9-7900XIntel $455Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	41x
Core i9-10980XEIntel $1,100Bench 84%, 4,959 samples	30x

GPU
RTX 3080Nvidia $910Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	23x
RTX 2080-TiNvidia $441Bench 156%, 357,946 samples	23x
RTX 3090Nvidia $1,306Bench 210%, 158,856 samples	20x

SSD
860 Pro 512GBSamsung $150Bench 110%, 16,934 samples	14x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	14x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	11x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	46x
2x16GBUnknownBench 91%, 46,387 samples	29x
4x16GBUnknownBench 98%, 9,153 samples	24x

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Value: 44% - Average

Total price: $1,060

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	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) $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