Acer Aspire M3970

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 73.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	62% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	56.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	28GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 28GB 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.

Run History

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

System	Acer Aspire M3970 (all builds)
Motherboard	Acer Aspire M3970
Memory	24.1 GB free of 28 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110419
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Oct 07 '20 at 03:20
Run Duration	113 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing as expected (57^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-$179 185,630 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 (93^rd percentile)	73.3% Very good	Memory 86.8 1-Core 97.3 2-Core 187 72% 124 Pts	4-Core 324 8-Core 468 50% 396 Pts	64-Core 464 29% 464 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 3739) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 456.55 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	62% Good	Lighting 78.6 Reflection 77.7 Parallax 66.9 64% 74.4 fps	MRender 70 Gravity 72.3 Splatting 70.7 58% 71 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 60%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 480GB-$38 237,487 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 310GB free (System drive) Firmware: S3401103 SusWrite @10s intervals: 45 405 395 402 403 395 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	56.3% Above average	Read 458 Write 390 Mixed 55 SusWrite 341 69% 311 MB/s	4K Read 17.4 4K Write 16.7 4K Mixed 10.5 49% 14.9 MB/s	DQ Read 95.8 DQ Write 25.3 DQ Mixed 33.8 32% 51.6 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 102%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905471-035.A00LF 9905471-084.A00LF Samsung M378B1G73EB0-CK0 BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 28GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 4096 MB Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	39.9% Below average	MC Read 13.8 MC Write 13.7 MC Mixed 11.6 37% 13 GB/s	SC Read 12.2 SC Write 14.3 SC Mixed 13 38% 13.2 GB/s	Latency 70.7 57% 70.7 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 39.9% Great: 48%

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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 $179Bench 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: 68% - Good

Total price: $217

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	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 i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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