Acer Aspire M3970

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 7% Tree trunk	Desktop 67% Battle cruiser	Workstation 6% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.15% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	Acer Aspire M3970 (all builds)
Motherboard	Acer Aspire M3970
Memory	4.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110721
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 16 '17 at 15:55
Run Duration	190 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600-$197 185,630 User benchmarks, average bench 67% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	74.4% Very good	Memory 91.4 1-Core 96.2 2-Core 185 73% 124 Pts	4-Core 311 8-Core 464 48% 388 Pts	64-Core 462 29% 462 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 545 2,995 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Sapphire(174B 5178) 1.5GB CLim: 720 MHz, MLim: 400 MHz, Ram: 1.5GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	6.15% Terrible	Lighting 6.9 Reflection 8.27 Parallax 5.19 6% 6.79 fps	MRender 8.86 Gravity 6.83 Splatting 10.1 7% 8.59 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.15% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 470GB free (System drive) Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 214775939 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4221 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 379326696 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9384 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4202 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 55 50 756547629 (C2) HDA temperature 45 50 73014444077 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 41 24 214775939 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -7301444382795 (F1) Unknown 100 253 869699950 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2186037685	65.8% Good	Read 116 Write 113 Mixed 102 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.48 99% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 68%
Seagate ST3500620AS 500GB-$145 5,462 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 40GB free Firmware: HP26 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 171425083 (03) Spinup time 95 88 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10739 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 159179585477 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14201 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 16 (0C) Power cycle count 95 37 5664 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 3 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 57 44 9329573931 (C2) HDA temperature 43 56 60129542187 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 23 171425083 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	57.3% Above average	Read 103 Write 96.5 Mixed 91.9 73% 97.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 0.84 4K Mixed 0.33 74% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 59%
Seagate ST3500320SV 500GB 315 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 59GB free Firmware: SV16 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 100180420 (03) Spinup time 94 84 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10913 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 4321176991 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14479 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 11 (0C) Power cycle count 95 37 5868 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 82 82 18 (BE) vendor-specific 60 53 689307688 (C2) HDA temperature 40 47 60129542184 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 51 51 100180420 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	31.9% Below average	Read 55.2 Write 56 Mixed 53.3 41% 54.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 0.65 4K Mixed 0.22 55% 0.44 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 31.9% Great: 58%
ST350031 2CS 500GB 116 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 45GB free, PID 2338 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	18.9% Very poor	Read 37.4 Write 37.2 Mixed 9.79 33% 28.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.43 75% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 18.9% Great: 20%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B5773DH0-CH9 4x2GB 2,464 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	49.3% Average	MC Read 16.8 MC Write 17.1 MC Mixed 15.4 47% 16.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 17.1 SC Mixed 17.1 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 65.1 62% 65.1 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 49.3% Great: 52%

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Gaming 6%

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Desktop 61%

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Workstation 6%

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System: Acer Aspire M3970

CPU
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	162x
Core i5-2320Intel $165Bench 64%, 38,345 samples	99x
Core i5-2300IntelBench 64%, 19,722 samples	54x

GPU
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	64x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	27x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	19x

SSD
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	20x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	17x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	14x

RAM
ACR512X64D3U13C9G 2x4GBKingstonBench 47%, 1,166 samples	14x
HU564403EP0200 2x4GBUnifosaBench 49%, 909 samples	10x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	9x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $235

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 $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