Acer Aspire M3970

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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 71.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	115% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	26.4% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (20%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	Acer Aspire M3970 (all builds)
Motherboard	Acer Aspire M3970
Memory	22.7 GB free of 28 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110419
Uptime	2.9 Days
Run Date	Jan 02 '21 at 22:06
Run Duration	120 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	20%

PC Performing as expected (43^rd 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-$192 185,630 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 (89^th percentile)	71.6% Very good	Memory 85.4 1-Core 96.5 2-Core 185 71% 122 Pts	4-Core 313 8-Core 464 48% 388 Pts	64-Core 462 29% 462 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 460.89 Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	115% Outstanding	Lighting 156 Reflection 165 Parallax 163 127% 161 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 158 Splatting 112 104% 128 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Kingston A400 480GB-$38 237,487 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 215GB free (System drive) Firmware: S3401103 SusWrite @10s intervals: 7.6 7.2 7.4 7.7 7.6 7.7 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	26.4% Poor	Read 450 Write 7 Mixed 14.6 SusWrite 7.5 25% 120 MB/s	4K Read 11.9 4K Write 6.4 4K Mixed 4.5 27% 7.6 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 26.4% Great: 102%
WD Green 1.5TB (2010)-$70 41,439 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 SusWrite @10s intervals: 82 80 82 82 83 83 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	50.1% Above average	Read 92.5 Write 83.6 Mixed 58.9 SusWrite 81.8 58% 79.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.8 163% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 63%

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 (35^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	44.9% Average	MC Read 15.6 MC Write 15.7 MC Mixed 13.8 43% 15 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 15.5 SC Mixed 14.5 41% 14.3 GB/s	Latency 71.6 56% 71.6 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 44.9% Great: 48%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Typical Aspire M3970 Builds (Compare 449 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 6%

Tree trunk

Desktop 61%

Destroyer

Workstation 6%

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System: Acer Aspire M3970

CPU
Core i7-2600Intel $192Bench 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 $90Bench 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: $229

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $490	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16