Acer Aspire GX-281

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (16th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 84 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 good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 65.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	81.9% 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	72.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

System	Acer Aspire GX-281 (all builds)
Motherboard	Acer Aspire GX-281
Memory	8.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180112
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 24 '20 at 03:46
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	23%

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PC Performing way below expectations (16^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 1700X-$225 66,470 User benchmarks, average bench 71% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	65.7% Good	Memory 60 1-Core 104 2-Core 204 66% 122 Pts	4-Core 383 8-Core 643 62% 513 Pts	64-Core 994 62% 994 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2060S (Super)-$510 319,148 User benchmarks, average bench 100% Nvidia(10DE 13AD) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 442.92 Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.9% Excellent	Lighting 99.7 Reflection 92.3 Parallax 109 81% 100 fps	MRender 139 Gravity 89.8 Splatting 85.8 83% 105 fps
Poor: 90% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 106%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$49 58,154 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 149GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF109C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 339 265 143 152 126 107 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	72.3% Very good	Read 442 Write 451 Mixed 419 SusWrite 188 84% 375 MB/s	4K Read 19.3 4K Write 58.5 4K Mixed 28.2 96% 35.3 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 316 DQ Mixed 40 101% 211 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 157%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$31 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 100GB free Firmware: MS2OA8K0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 123 132 132 139 139 163 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Read 165 Write 146 Mixed 19.3 SusWrite 138 84% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.6 139% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston ACR24D4U7S8MB-8 2x8GB 1,454 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	58.9% Above average	MC Read 24 MC Write 19.7 MC Mixed 24.2 65% 22.6 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 11.7 SC Mixed 12.8 33% 11.7 GB/s	Latency 128 31% 128 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 58.9% Great: 83%

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

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Desktop 70%

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Workstation 42%

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System: Acer Aspire GX-281

CPU
Ryzen 5 1400AMD $87Bench 61%, 71,313 samples	139x
Ryzen 7 1700AMD $195Bench 69%, 144,475 samples	37x
Ryzen 5 1600AMD $110Bench 70%, 392,253 samples	26x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	69x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	39x
GTX 1050Nvidia $101Bench 26%, 269,381 samples	26x

SSD
600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBIntel $49Bench 116%, 58,154 samples	91x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	5x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	4x

RAM
HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 1x8GBHynixBench 39%, 21,551 samples	26x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G3B1 1x8GBMicronBench 40%, 7,235 samples	12x
HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBHynixBench 74%, 20,415 samples	9x

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Value: 102% - Outstanding

Total price: $269

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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) $37	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