Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 79.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	75% 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	215% 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	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

2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 23 months ago, 23 months ago, 21 months ago, 18 months ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20210506
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 13 '22 at 01:02
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (72^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-$125 179,588 User benchmarks, average bench 73% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	79.9% Very good	Memory 83 1-Core 114 2-Core 230 80% 142 Pts	4-Core 413 8-Core 670 66% 542 Pts	64-Core 882 55% 882 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 3050-$274 43,922 User benchmarks, average bench 75% Gigabyte(1458 40A9) CLim: 2115 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 512.15 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	75% Very good	Lighting 102 Reflection 82.6 Parallax 88.5 83% 91 fps	MRender 83.9 Gravity 72.8 Splatting 65.1 60% 73.9 fps
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 79%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black SN750 SE NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$70 12,376 User benchmarks, average bench 219% 340GB free (System drive) Firmware: 711130WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1287 1297 1331 1330 1326 167 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	215% Outstanding	Read 1,190 Write 1,368 Mixed 1,237 SusWrite 1,123 278% 1,230 MB/s	4K Read 45.6 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 63.3 214% 76.5 MB/s	DQ Read 889 DQ Write 549 DQ Mixed 740 546% 726 MB/s
Poor: 122% ↑ This bench: 215% Great: 296%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 787GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 168 169 170 171 170 169 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	96.3% Outstanding	Read 166 Write 165 Mixed 108 SusWrite 170 112% 152 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.8 4K Mixed 1.2 239% 1.77 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 96.3% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GB 52,667 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	97.7% Outstanding	MC Read 40 MC Write 32.9 MC Mixed 33 101% 35.3 GB/s	SC Read 24.2 SC Write 37.1 SC Mixed 27.7 85% 29.7 GB/s	Latency 75.1 53% 75.1 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 103%

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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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Gaming 78%

Battleship

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 74%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,917x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $125Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	823x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $149Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	605x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $255Bench 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 $274	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 $184	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