Acer Aspire M3970

Performance Results


Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 10% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 74.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	9.15% 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	51% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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	5.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110801
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Mar 29 '19 at 18:59
Run Duration	154 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (68^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-$137 185,630 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 (95^th percentile)	74.1% Very good	Memory 92.2 1-Core 98 2-Core 188 74% 126 Pts	4-Core 303 8-Core 463 47% 383 Pts	64-Core 472 29% 472 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 5750 12,403 User benchmarks, average bench 8% MSI(1462 2080) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	9.15% Terrible	Lighting 12 Reflection 9.54 Parallax 9.88 10% 10.5 fps	MRender 9.1 Gravity 8.5 Splatting 11 8% 9.55 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 9.15% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 240GB-$28 424,288 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 131GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFK71E0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 134 60 114 28 71 64 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	51% Above average	Read 208 Write 88.7 Mixed 309 SusWrite 78.5 38% 171 MB/s	4K Read 22.5 4K Write 44.9 4K Mixed 22.2 86% 29.9 MB/s	DQ Read 244 DQ Write 277 DQ Mixed 161 149% 227 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 100%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$39 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 264GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 120 120 119 118 121 120 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	76.7% Very good	Read 147 Write 150 Mixed 79.2 SusWrite 120 91% 124 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1.1 224% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 109%
WD WD10EAVS-00D7B1 1TB 26,179 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 387GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 74 73 74 76 76 75 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	46.8% Average	Read 88.4 Write 82.6 Mixed 50.6 SusWrite 74.5 54% 74 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.7 132% 1 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 46.8% Great: 51%
Jmicron Corp. 1TB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 163GB free, PID 0412 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 26 26 26 26 26 26 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	14.5% Very poor	Read 32.3 Write 24.5 Mixed 23.6 SusWrite 26.1 35% 26.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.7 70% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 14.5% Great: 65%

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 (76^th percentile)	50% Average	MC Read 17 MC Write 17.6 MC Mixed 15.5 48% 16.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 17.6 SC Mixed 16.6 46% 16 GB/s	Latency 63.6 63% 63.6 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 50% 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 $137Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	163x
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 $94Bench 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: 71% - Very good

Total price: $175

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $170	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	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