Acer Aspire M3970

Performance Results


Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (22nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 78 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 65.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	74.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	67.5% 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.

Very high background CPU (39%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Acer Aspire M3970 (all builds)
Motherboard	Acer Aspire M3970
Memory	10.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20111031
Uptime	3.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 22 '17 at 21:28
Run Duration	129 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	39%

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PC Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2320-$165 38,345 User benchmarks, average bench 64% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	65.5% Good	Memory 84.6 1-Core 78 2-Core 147 62% 103 Pts	4-Core 266 8-Core 286 36% 276 Pts	64-Core 277 17% 277 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	74.4% Very good	Lighting 90.6 Reflection 105 Parallax 99.9 74% 98.6 fps	MRender 92.9 Gravity 87.5 Splatting 95.2 76% 91.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 530 Series 240GB-$149 16,872 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 166GB free (System drive) Firmware: DC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 29472065587101 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1187 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 38 (B7) Unknown 100 100 10 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 35 48 64427655203 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 38 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 381844 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 52 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 97 97 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 381844 (F2) Unknown 100 100 424828 (F9) Unknown 100 100 38969	67.5% Good	Read 499 Write 244 Mixed 310 77% 351 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 41.1 4K Mixed 17.3 78% 26.9 MB/s	DQ Read 241 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 59.7 85% 159 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 91%
WD WD10EADX-00TDHB0 1TB 12,976 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 254GB free Firmware: 77.04D77 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 683 (03) Spinup time 222 181 4875 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7084 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 11911 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3467 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 125 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 164 164 109030 (C2) HDA temperature 111 92 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 2 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 2	28.3% Poor	Read 48.8 Write 49.5 Mixed 46.2 36% 48.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.33 88% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 28.3% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2400 C11 4x4GB 1,336 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	46.5% Average	MC Read 15.6 MC Write 17.3 MC Mixed 15.3 46% 16.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.5 SC Write 13.4 SC Mixed 14 37% 13 GB/s	Latency 72.4 55% 72.4 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 46.5% Great: 96%

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

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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 $197Bench 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: $235

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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