Acer Aspire M3970

Performance Results


Gaming 25% Raft	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 21% Surfboard


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 76.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	30.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	75% 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.

System	Acer Aspire M3970 (all builds)
Motherboard	Acer Aspire M3970
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20111031
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Jan 26 '18 at 02:11
Run Duration	188 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	6%

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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 (98^th percentile)	76.3% Very good	Memory 89.1 1-Core 94 2-Core 187 72% 123 Pts	4-Core 349 8-Core 470 52% 409 Pts	64-Core 470 29% 470 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1050-Ti-$59 946,701 User benchmarks, average bench 29% MSI(1462 8C96) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	30.7% Below average	Lighting 38.6 Reflection 30.2 Parallax 36.1 31% 35 fps	MRender 36.6 Gravity 36.4 Splatting 35.1 29% 36 fps
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 30.7% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1211 480GB SSD 754D117-533 226 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 283GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS121101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 276 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1163 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1093 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 100 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 97 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 104 (E7) Temperature 100 100 35 (E9) Unknown 0 0 0 (EA) Unknown 0 0 28 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4709 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5298	75% Very good	Read 499 Write 379 Mixed 417 96% 432 MB/s	4K Read 20.8 4K Write 43.8 4K Mixed 16.7 76% 27.1 MB/s	DQ Read 197 DQ Write 216 DQ Mixed 66.3 89% 160 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 101%
WD WD15EARX-00PASB0 3TB 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 215 179 4233 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1114 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 392 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 280 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 78 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3751 (C2) HDA temperature 119 104 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	72.5% Very good	Read 125 Write 128 Mixed 119 93% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 2.34 4K Mixed 0.29 114% 1.18 MB/s

Seagate Laptop SSHD 2.5" 1TB-$41 64,201 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 931GB free Firmware: SM30 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 236775056 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 579 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 89940295 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2411 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 581 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 50 504627230 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 46806 (C2) HDA temperature 30 50 55834574878 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	65.1% Good	Read 112 Write 114 Mixed 107 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 5.4 4K Mixed 0.75 213% 2.29 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 65%
PHD 3.0 Silicon-Power 1TB 4,921 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 427GB free, PID 55aa Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	11.7% Very poor	Read 29.6 Write 23.6 Mixed 25.5 33% 26.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 0.68 4K Mixed 0.38 38% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 11.7% Great: 49%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B1G73EB0-YK0 Kingston ACR512X64D3U13C9G Kingston ACR512X64D3U13C9G 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	29.4% Poor	MC Read 9.7 MC Write 9 MC Mixed 8.7 26% 9.13 GB/s	SC Read 9 SC Write 10.1 SC Mixed 9.1 27% 9.4 GB/s	Latency 68.4 58% 68.4 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 29.4% Great: 34%

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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