Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 82%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.3% 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	242% 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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit barev
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20200713
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 27 '20 at 17:59
Run Duration	227 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^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 2600-$125 179,588 User benchmarks, average bench 73% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	82% Excellent	Memory 86.2 1-Core 107 2-Core 211 77% 135 Pts	4-Core 419 8-Core 652 66% 536 Pts	64-Core 896 56% 896 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super)-$233 428,800 User benchmarks, average bench 71% Gigabyte(1458 4014) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2280 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 452.06 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 93.3 Parallax 96.5 84% 97.8 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 87.5 Splatting 82.3 78% 97.7 fps
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 76%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$46 87,206 User benchmarks, average bench 234% 141GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 722 403 402 391 398 402 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	242% Outstanding	Read 2,483 Write 2,177 Mixed 1,542 SusWrite 453 370% 1,664 MB/s	4K Read 59.6 4K Write 138 4K Mixed 81.7 268% 93 MB/s	DQ Read 769 DQ Write 645 DQ Mixed 707 530% 707 MB/s
Poor: 152% ↑ This bench: 242% Great: 302%
Crucial BX500 120GB-$15 37,154 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4GB free Firmware: M6CR013 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 501 Write 432 Mixed 422 101% 452 MB/s	4K Read 33.4 4K Write 94.9 4K Mixed 31.5 141% 53.3 MB/s	DQ Read 225 DQ Write 345 DQ Mixed 1.1 80% 190 MB/s
Poor: 34% Great: 86%
OCZ ARC 100 120GB-$82 4,735 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 23GB free Firmware: 1.01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 372 373 356 312 220 137 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Read 382 Write 378 Mixed 303 SusWrite 295 76% 339 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 81.5 4K Mixed 32.9 124% 46.6 MB/s	DQ Read 307 DQ Write 361 DQ Mixed 254 214% 307 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 98%
Seagate ST1000LM048-2E7172 1TB 89,596 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 247GB free Firmware: SDM1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 91 93 96 91 88 92 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	36.9% Below average	Read 35.3 Write 59.6 Mixed 50.4 SusWrite 92 44% 59.3 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 4 4K Mixed 0.4 160% 1.8 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 36.9% Great: 71%

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 @ 3400 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	MC Read 46 MC Write 40.4 MC Mixed 36.6 117% 41 GB/s	SC Read 28.1 SC Write 39.7 SC Mixed 30.1 93% 32.6 GB/s	Latency 71.1 56% 71.1 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 111%

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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 $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