Asrock B450 Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 81.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	94.4% 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	147% 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 (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asrock B450 Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190507
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 12 '19 at 12:17
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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-$150 179,588 User benchmarks, average bench 73% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	81.7% Excellent	Memory 76.7 1-Core 120 2-Core 229 79% 142 Pts	4-Core 468 8-Core 664 71% 566 Pts	64-Core 944 58% 944 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 1426) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 431.60 Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	94.4% Outstanding	Lighting 121 Reflection 127 Parallax 112 98% 120 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 121 Splatting 97.2 87% 107 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HP EX900 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$40 10,318 User benchmarks, average bench 183% 65GB free (System drive) Firmware: R0802B0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 483 404 150 300 612 554 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	147% Outstanding	Read 1,373 Write 422 Mixed 130 SusWrite 417 127% 586 MB/s	4K Read 43.7 4K Write 50.7 4K Mixed 14.2 111% 36.2 MB/s	DQ Read 725 DQ Write 851 DQ Mixed 55.9 245% 544 MB/s
Poor: 116% ↑ This bench: 147% Great: 248%
Seagate ST31000520AS 1TB-$250 11,608 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 829GB free Firmware: CC38 SusWrite @10s intervals: 111 109 109 111 111 111 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	64.3% Good	Read 114 Write 100 Mixed 58.2 SusWrite 110 70% 95.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 1 172% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 62%
Seagate ST31000520AS 1TB-$250 11,608 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 817GB free Firmware: CC38 SusWrite @10s intervals: 103 101 103 101 103 104 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	59.5% Above average	Read 105 Write 99.7 Mixed 55.5 SusWrite 103 66% 90.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.8 137% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 59.5% Great: 62%
RDP8 SD/microSD 64GB 20 User benchmarks, average bench 13% 56GB free, PID 5038 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 16 16 16 16 16 16 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	16.1% Very poor	Read 19.7 Write 16.5 Mixed 18.7 SusWrite 15.8 24% 17.7 MB/s	4K Read 4.9 4K Write 2.8 4K Mixed 3.6 236% 3.77 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 16.1% Great: 16%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown TEAMGROUP-UD4-3000 2x8GB 74,390 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB 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	73.3% Very good	MC Read 29.8 MC Write 23.6 MC Mixed 26 76% 26.5 GB/s	SC Read 19.1 SC Write 23.2 SC Mixed 22 61% 21.4 GB/s	Latency 86.9 46% 86.9 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 103%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 81%

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Motherboard: Asrock B450 Steel Legend

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,220x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $150Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	379x
Ryzen 7 3700XAMD $205Bench 86%, 635,419 samples	345x

GPU
RTX 3060Nvidia $250Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	281x
RTX 3070Nvidia $500Bench 148%, 619,642 samples	240x
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	234x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	90x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	85x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $96Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	78x

RAM
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $56Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	303x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	188x
HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBKingstonBench 86%, 239,203 samples	167x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $417

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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