Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 84.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	90.9% 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	104% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

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Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	25 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20191127
Uptime	2.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 23 '21 at 00:32
Run Duration	273 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	20%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X-$210 294,959 User benchmarks, average bench 84% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	84.6% Excellent	Memory 74.3 1-Core 148 2-Core 282 90% 168 Pts	4-Core 509 8-Core 787 80% 648 Pts	64-Core 1,032 64% 1,032 Pts
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2060-$324 645,160 User benchmarks, average bench 90% MSI(1462 3754) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 496.13 Performing below potential (63^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	90.9% Outstanding	Lighting 114 Reflection 105 Parallax 110 93% 110 fps	MRender 138 Gravity 101 Splatting 90.4 87% 110 fps
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 97%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra 3D 1TB-$67 5,838 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 225GB free (System drive) Firmware: X61170RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 326 420 415 419 445 373 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	104% Outstanding	Read 425 Write 459 Mixed 294 SusWrite 400 89% 395 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 45.1 153% 58.6 MB/s	DQ Read 341 DQ Write 324 DQ Mixed 230 201% 298 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 121%
WDC WDS480G2G0B-00EPW0 480GB 14,337 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 447GB free Firmware: UK510000 SusWrite @10s intervals: 338 142 124 220 233 241 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	56.6% Above average	Read 436 Write 386 Mixed 284 SusWrite 216 74% 331 MB/s	4K Read 14.4 4K Write 41 4K Mixed 19 68% 24.8 MB/s	DQ Read 118 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 46.1 52% 89.3 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 59%
WD WD2500BEVS-22UST0 250GB 10,566 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 233GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 58 60 60 60 59 60 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	34.1% Below average	Read 58.8 Write 57.7 Mixed 39.8 SusWrite 59.5 40% 54 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.8 145% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 34.1% Great: 32%
WD Red 1TB (2012)-$62 37,583 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 930GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 SusWrite @10s intervals: 152 154 155 154 154 154 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.1% Excellent	Read 157 Write 151 Mixed 91.6 SusWrite 154 102% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.8 4K Mixed 1.1 207% 1.57 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 87%
USB SanDisk 3.2Gen1 64GB 3,373 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 52GB free, PID null SusWrite @10s intervals: 25 25 25 27 36 24 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	38.6% Below average	Read 141 Write 24.9 Mixed 36.9 SusWrite 27 59% 57.4 MB/s	4K Read 6.7 4K Write 3.5 4K Mixed 3.8 273% 4.67 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 38.6% Great: 48%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2400 C15 2x16GB 9,797 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.5% Very good	MC Read 30.6 MC Write 18.1 MC Mixed 30.5 75% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 20.4 SC Write 17.5 SC Mixed 29.5 64% 22.5 GB/s	Latency 91.8 44% 91.8 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 95%

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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 $82Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,916x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $125Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	823x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $150Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	603x

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	290x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $524

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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