Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 82.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	94.5% 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	79.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

Very high background CPU (41%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	3.7 GB free of 24 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20201103
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 15 '21 at 23:45
Run Duration	151 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	41%

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PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X-$210 159,077 User benchmarks, average bench 76% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	82.6% Excellent	Memory 77 1-Core 121 2-Core 238 80% 145 Pts	4-Core 474 8-Core 741 75% 608 Pts	64-Core 1,201 74% 1,201 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2060-$324 645,160 User benchmarks, average bench 90% MSI(1462 3752) CLim: 2160 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 461.09 Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	94.5% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 108 Parallax 111 98% 113 fps	MRender 131 Gravity 104 Splatting 94.3 88% 110 fps
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 97%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Patriot Burst 240GB 26,886 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 151GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFM61.3 SusWrite @10s intervals: 342 183 97 101 99 98 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	79.2% Very good	Read 408 Write 125 Mixed 330 SusWrite 153 56% 254 MB/s	4K Read 34.2 4K Write 69.3 4K Mixed 35.9 134% 46.5 MB/s	DQ Read 256 DQ Write 295 DQ Mixed 200 172% 250 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 94%
Toshiba P300 2TB-$61 100,891 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: MX4OACF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 155 165 159 142 127 150 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	54% Above average	Read 38.6 Write 110 Mixed 39.8 SusWrite 150 62% 84.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.2 57% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 54% Great: 108%
Generic External 500GB 3,066 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 260GB free, PID 0840 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 37 39 39 39 39 39 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	20.4% Poor	Read 39.1 Write 38.7 Mixed 34.8 SusWrite 38.8 52% 37.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.9 100% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 20.4% Great: 21%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2400 C15 3x8GB 818 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 3 of 4 slots used 24GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	40.8% Average	MC Read 15.9 MC Write 12.3 MC Mixed 13.1 39% 13.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.2 SC Write 12.4 SC Mixed 12.8 38% 13.1 GB/s	Latency 86.3 46% 86.3 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 40.8% Great: 85%

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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 $84Bench 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 $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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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