Acer Aspire M3970G

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing CPU, GPU, SSD, RAM
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (62%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

8 years ago, 8 years ago.

System	Acer Aspire M3970G (all builds)
Motherboard	Acer Aspire M3970G
Memory	6.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20111125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 27 '15 at 22:57
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	62%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		1-Core 81.4 2-Core 163 55% 122 Pts	4-Core 304 8-Core 308 41% 306 Pts	64-Core 314 19% 314 Pts
Poor: 50% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 7350 1,650 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Sapphire(174B E153) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.920.0.0 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 1% Great: 1%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 931GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 100 26758696 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 371 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 3364602 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 570 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 114 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 69 51 521863199 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 15 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1724 (C2) HDA temperature 31 49 38654705695 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 43855911059566 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11633251904 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3109113781	84.4% Excellent	Read 149 Write 145 Mixed 155 113% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.33 114% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 489GB free (System drive) Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 122965618 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 791 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 167686679 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3134 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 789 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 8590065666 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 56 639959078 (C2) HDA temperature 38 44 42949672998 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 30 122965618 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -77790447659776 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2520127365 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3081912689	58.3% Above average	Read 107 Write 96.4 Mixed 101 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.47 107% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 250GB-$23 32,491 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 212GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 100 1808 (03) Spinup time 99 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 310 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 1402960 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 274 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 169 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 66 53 572391458 (C2) HDA temperature 34 47 42949672994 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 49 38 1808 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -4982162063106 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3329170378 (F2) Unknown 100 253 402696028	72.2% Very good	Read 130 Write 122 Mixed 117 92% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.08 4K Mixed 0.71 126% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 74%

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Workstation 27%

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System: Acer Aspire M3970G

CPU
Core i5-2320Intel $165Bench 64%, 38,345 samples	29x
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	7x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	6x
Radeon HD 7350AMDBench 1%, 1,650 samples	5x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	2x

SSD
870 EVO 500GBSamsung $60Bench 104%, 60,851 samples	5x
CS900 240GBPNY $22Bench 73%, 61,417 samples	3x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	3x

RAM
HU524303EP0200 4x2GBUnifosaBench 49%, 508 samples	9x
ACR256X64D3U13C9G 4x2GBKingstonBench 44%, 134 samples	4x
M378B5273DH0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 57%, 2,354 samples	3x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $425

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) $35	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