Acer Aspire M3970

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 70.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	125% 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	42.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	Acer Aspire M3970 (all builds)
Motherboard	Acer Aspire M3970
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110419
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 30 '21 at 02:47
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (53^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-$194 185,630 User benchmarks, average bench 67% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	70.8% Very good	Memory 88.8 1-Core 96.7 2-Core 183 72% 123 Pts	4-Core 287 8-Core 417 44% 352 Pts	64-Core 466 29% 466 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 70.8% 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: 461.09 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	125% Outstanding	Lighting 169 Reflection 182 Parallax 174 138% 175 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 182 Splatting 123 116% 144 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Kingston A400 480GB-$38 237,487 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 213GB free (System drive) Firmware: S3401103 SusWrite @10s intervals: 31 404 234 23 177 84 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	42.3% Average	Read 446 Write 7.9 Mixed 16.2 SusWrite 159 34% 157 MB/s	4K Read 27.8 4K Write 7.1 4K Mixed 5.4 53% 13.4 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 42.3% Great: 102%
WD Green 1.5TB (2010)-$170 41,439 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 SusWrite @10s intervals: 81 81 82 82 83 82 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	48.5% Average	Read 86.6 Write 87 Mixed 63.4 SusWrite 81.8 59% 79.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.8 165% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 48.5% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905471-035.A00LF 9905471-084.A00LF 16GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	50.2% Above average	MC Read 17.6 MC Write 17.4 MC Mixed 15.9 48% 17 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 17.2 SC Mixed 16.1 46% 16 GB/s	Latency 68.8 58% 68.8 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 50.2% Great: 51%

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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 $194Bench 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 $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: 67% - Good

Total price: $232

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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