Asrock B450 Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 84.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	79.5% 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	149% 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	Windows 11 is the most recent version of Windows.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450 Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	6.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 11
BIOS Date	20210803
Uptime	5.3 Days
Run Date	Jan 28 '22 at 19:16
Run Duration	262 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	34%

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PC Performing as expected (45^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 3600-$84 1,072,639 User benchmarks, average bench 83% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Memory 73.4 1-Core 135 2-Core 256 84% 155 Pts	4-Core 512 8-Core 809 81% 661 Pts	64-Core 1,036 64% 1,036 Pts
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 511.23 Performing below potential (58^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.5% Very good	Lighting 97.3 Reflection 112 Parallax 102 79% 104 fps	MRender 94.3 Gravity 98.6 Splatting 99.3 80% 97.4 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Nvme SSDM21000M2280FS 1TB 227GB free (System drive) Firmware: SVN163 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 687 687 684 654 806 463 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	149% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 907 Mixed 697 SusWrite 664 158% 694 MB/s	4K Read 27.5 4K Write 169 4K Mixed 52.8 199% 83 MB/s	DQ Read 424 DQ Write 818 DQ Mixed 452 392% 565 MB/s

Puskill 512GB 512GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 109GB free Firmware: 02000006 SusWrite @10s intervals: 379 102 89 102 103 95 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	55.1% Above average	Read 331 Write 101 Mixed 84.9 SusWrite 145 36% 166 MB/s	4K Read 17.5 4K Write 20.2 4K Mixed 18.5 61% 18.7 MB/s	DQ Read 279 DQ Write 355 DQ Mixed 211 189% 282 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 91%
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 233GB free Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1191 714 642 638 634 635 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	237% Outstanding	Read 1,362 Write 1,217 Mixed 1,106 SusWrite 742 248% 1,107 MB/s	4K Read 62.9 4K Write 145 4K Mixed 86.1 282% 98 MB/s	DQ Read 1,182 DQ Write 1,006 DQ Mixed 1092 819% 1,093 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 237% Great: 340%
Kingston SSDNow V300 480GB-$250 15,510 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 151GB free Firmware: 603ABBF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 240 221 216 222 223 212 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	54.3% Above average	Read 291 Write 242 Mixed 279 SusWrite 222 58% 258 MB/s	4K Read 26 4K Write 19.6 4K Mixed 22.5 79% 22.7 MB/s	DQ Read 133 DQ Write 81.5 DQ Mixed 101 77% 105 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 54.3% Great: 65%
Generic L200 Hard drive 2TB 113 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 2TB free Firmware: MZ4OABT0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 148 150 149 149 150 147 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	84.6% Excellent	Read 146 Write 143 Mixed 28.3 SusWrite 149 84% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.6 137% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3600 C18 2x8GB-$65 38,251 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75.1% Very good	MC Read 31.3 MC Write 20 MC Mixed 29.9 77% 27.1 GB/s	SC Read 22.1 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 28.4 65% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 93.8 43% 93.8 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 122%

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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 $84Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,223x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $150Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	379x
Ryzen 7 3700XAMD $200Bench 86%, 635,419 samples	347x

GPU
RTX 3060Nvidia $283Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	283x
RTX 3070Nvidia $500Bench 148%, 619,642 samples	241x
RTX 2060Nvidia $290Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	234x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $25Bench 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 $86Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	79x

RAM
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $56Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	304x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	188x
HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBKingstonBench 86%, 239,203 samples	168x

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Value: 91% - Outstanding

Total price: $448

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $165	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

Asrock B450 Steel Legend

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