Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


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 good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	3.26% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	206% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

17 months ago, 17 months ago, 17 months ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190822
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 25 '22 at 09:12
Run Duration	128 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	11%

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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 7 1700-$195 144,475 User benchmarks, average bench 69% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	75.4% Very good	Memory 77.3 1-Core 98.8 2-Core 197 70% 124 Pts	4-Core 394 8-Core 746 68% 570 Pts	64-Core 1,012 63% 1,012 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 590-$200 122,060 User benchmarks, average bench 57% Sapphire(1DA2 E387) CLim: 1490 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 22.11.1 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	3.26% Terrible	Lighting 2.6 Reflection 9.4 Parallax 3.8 2% 5.27 fps	MRender 11.9 Gravity 3.2 Splatting 5.7 6% 6.93 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 3.26% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial P5 3D NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$120 24,278 User benchmarks, average bench 287% 232GB free (System drive) Firmware: P4CR311 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 716 500 483 571 569 412 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	206% Outstanding	Read 2,224 Write 1,307 Mixed 1,568 SusWrite 542 313% 1,410 MB/s	4K Read 44.7 4K Write 80.9 4K Mixed 56.2 183% 60.6 MB/s	DQ Read 731 DQ Write 464 DQ Mixed 626 459% 607 MB/s
Poor: 175% ↑ This bench: 206% Great: 370%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 247GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 24 28 28 27 27 31 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 52% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 239,203 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	MC Read 43.7 MC Write 36.4 MC Mixed 34.5 109% 38.2 GB/s	SC Read 24.4 SC Write 38.8 SC Mixed 30.3 89% 31.2 GB/s	Latency 85.7 47% 85.7 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 111%

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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 $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,917x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $155Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	823x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $153Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	605x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $279Bench 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 $273	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 $177	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