Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 85% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (87th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 13 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.3% 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	236% 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

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	7.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190509
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 24 '19 at 07:50
Run Duration	224 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing way above expectations (87^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 2700-$185 123,820 User benchmarks, average bench 74% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89.9% Excellent	Memory 88.5 1-Core 118 2-Core 244 84% 150 Pts	4-Core 490 8-Core 906 84% 698 Pts	64-Core 1,344 83% 1,344 Pts
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6278) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 430.64 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.3% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 117 Parallax 97.2 91% 109 fps	MRender 97.2 Gravity 102 Splatting 103 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc M.2 PCIe SSD 1TB 29,078 User benchmarks, average bench 231% 756GB free (System drive) Firmware: ECFM12.2 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1663 1045 1058 1053 1057 1060 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	236% Outstanding	Read 1,554 Write 2,419 Mixed 1,690 SusWrite 1,156 386% 1,705 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 60.6 195% 70.7 MB/s	DQ Read 1,070 DQ Write 841 DQ Mixed 974 724% 962 MB/s
Poor: 145% ↑ This bench: 236% Great: 310%
Seagate BUP Slim BK 1TB 18,390 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 620GB free Firmware: 0107 SusWrite @10s intervals: 110 107 109 118 118 115 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	61.3% Good	Read 100 Write 99 Mixed 104 SusWrite 113 77% 104 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 3.3 4K Mixed 0.7 180% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 63%
Generic- SD/MMC 32GB 87 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 28GB free, PID 8468 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 51 51 51 51 51 51 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	36.9% Below average	Read 91 Write 51.3 Mixed 58.7 SusWrite 51 80% 63 MB/s	4K Read 6.6 4K Write 3.6 4K Mixed 4.8 310% 5 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 36.9% Great: 37%
Samsung Flash Drive 32GB 12,134 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 30GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 30 25 26 24 26 24 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	75.2% Very good	Read 214 Write 20.5 Mixed 83.3 SusWrite 25.9 87% 85.9 MB/s	4K Read 13.5 4K Write 11.5 4K Mixed 11.5 832% 12.2 MB/s	DQ Read 16.9 DQ Write 19.7 DQ Mixed 13 1,175% 16.5 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 86%

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 (93^rd percentile)	107% Outstanding	MC Read 43.9 MC Write 38.1 MC Mixed 33.9 110% 38.6 GB/s	SC Read 26.7 SC Write 41.7 SC Mixed 31 95% 33.1 GB/s	Latency 69.1 58% 69.1 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 111%

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Typical B450M Steel Legend Builds (Compare 8,100 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 78%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

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 $142Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	605x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $255Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	460x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	405x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	258x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	176x
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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Total price: $525

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $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 $40	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