Asrock B550M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 84.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	75.5% 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	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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

High background CPU (28%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B550M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	58.9 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20200813
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 14 '21 at 06:01
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	28%

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PC Performing below expectations (39^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 3700X-$205 635,419 User benchmarks, average bench 86% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	84.3% Excellent	Memory 68.2 1-Core 145 2-Core 302 90% 172 Pts	4-Core 538 8-Core 909 88% 723 Pts	64-Core 1,452 90% 1,452 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super)-$233 428,800 User benchmarks, average bench 71% MSI(1462 C75A) CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 457.51 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	75.5% Very good	Lighting 95 Reflection 93 Parallax 86.2 77% 91.4 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 82 Splatting 74 72% 90.1 fps
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 76%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc M.2 PCIe SSD 512GB 29,096 User benchmarks, average bench 203% 195GB free (System drive) Firmware: S0614B0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 707 615 798 856 403 184 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	147% Outstanding	Read 832 Write 859 Mixed 1,076 SusWrite 594 190% 840 MB/s	4K Read 54 4K Write 132 4K Mixed 31.1 192% 72.5 MB/s	DQ Read 885 DQ Write 99 DQ Mixed 151 197% 378 MB/s
Poor: 112% ↑ This bench: 147% Great: 291%
Toshiba MK2002TSKB 2TB 754 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 827GB free Firmware: MT4A SusWrite @10s intervals: 125 114 121 117 118 121 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	66% Good	Read 110 Write 138 Mixed 64.3 SusWrite 119 79% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.8 156% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 66% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 4x16GB-$143 14,506 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.2% Good	MC Read 26.6 MC Write 18.2 MC Mixed 26.3 68% 23.7 GB/s	SC Read 21.8 SC Write 17.4 SC Mixed 23.4 60% 20.9 GB/s	Latency 106 38% 106 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 135%

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

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Gaming 99%

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Desktop 101%

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Workstation 91%

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Motherboard: Asrock B550M Steel Legend

CPU
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $150Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	628x
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $84Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	341x
Ryzen 7 5800XAMD $200Bench 98%, 128,080 samples	243x

GPU
RTX 3060Nvidia $270Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	200x
RTX 3070Nvidia $400Bench 148%, 619,642 samples	189x
RTX 3060-TiNvidia $340Bench 128%, 442,467 samples	161x

SSD
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $94Bench 251%, 262,559 samples	67x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	67x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	59x

RAM
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $63Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	73x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	61x
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	61x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $577

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