Acer Aspire M3970

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 74.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	135% 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	33.9% 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.

Very high background CPU (69%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Acer Aspire M3970 (all builds)
Motherboard	Acer Aspire M3970
Memory	24 GB free of 28 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110419
Uptime	22.3 Days
Run Date	Jul 03 '21 at 01:29
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	69%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 way above expectations (96^th percentile)	74.5% Very good	Memory 86.7 1-Core 95.5 2-Core 189 72% 124 Pts	4-Core 340 8-Core 468 51% 404 Pts	64-Core 468 29% 468 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 74.5% 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: 461.92 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	135% Outstanding	Lighting 188 Reflection 197 Parallax 191 154% 192 fps	MRender 140 Gravity 194 Splatting 132 125% 156 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Kingston A400 480GB-$38 237,487 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 297GB free (System drive) Firmware: S3401103 SusWrite @10s intervals: 4.8 5.6 6.3 68 389 42 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	33.9% Below average	Read 470 Write 385 Mixed 377 SusWrite 86 74% 330 MB/s	4K Read 19.2 4K Write 4.4 4K Mixed 3.2 36% 8.93 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 33.9% Great: 102%
WD Green 1.5TB (2010)-$170 41,439 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 SusWrite @10s intervals: 80 79 80 80 81 81 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	50.2% Above average	Read 94.4 Write 82.7 Mixed 60.4 SusWrite 80.2 58% 79.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.7 139% 1 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 50.2% Great: 63%
Generic Flash Disk 4GB 220 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 4GB free, PID 2096 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 4 4.8 4.6 4.5 4.9 4.3 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	4.24% Terrible	Read 14.2 Write 2 Mixed 2.5 SusWrite 4.5 6% 5.8 MB/s	4K Read 5.1 4K Write 0 4K Mixed 0 19% 1.7 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.24% Great: 9%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905471-035.A00LF 9905471-084.A00LF BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. Samsung M378B1G73EB0-CK0 28GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	41.4% Average	MC Read 14.3 MC Write 13.8 MC Mixed 12.7 39% 13.6 GB/s	SC Read 12.2 SC Write 14.7 SC Mixed 14 39% 13.6 GB/s	Latency 70.7 57% 70.7 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 41.4% Great: 49%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

SkillBench Score 0: 0R 0G 0B (High Scores)

Measures user input accuracy relative to the given hardware

Score	Hit Rate	Shots	EFps	0.1% Low	Refresh Rate	Screen	Resolution	Monitor
0%	0%	0	8	5	100	31.5"	1280 720	MSI1462 Optix AG32C

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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 $109Bench 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 $295	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 $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