Acer Aspire E1-522

Performance Results


Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 21% Surfboard	Workstation 3% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (24th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 76 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 an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 18.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is terrible.
Graphics	1.33% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	51.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (74%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Acer Aspire E1-522 (all builds)
Motherboard	Acer Aspire E1-522
Memory	4.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130930
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 10 '18 at 23:25
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	74%

PC Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD E1-2500 APU 2,593 User benchmarks, average bench 21% Socket FT1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 1.4 GHz, turbo 1.4 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	18.9% Very poor	Memory 31.9 1-Core 14.6 2-Core 32.4 18% 26.3 Pts	4-Core 36.7 8-Core 32.3 5% 34.5 Pts	64-Core 31.2 2% 31.2 Pts
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 18.9% Great: 30%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 8240 3,521 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Acer(1025 076B) 512MB Ram: 512MB, Driver: 18.2.1 Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	1.33% Terrible	Lighting 1.47 Reflection 3.31 Parallax 1.88 1% 2.22 fps	MRender 2.1 Gravity 1.2 Splatting 2.35 2% 1.88 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.33% Great: 2%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX200 500GB-$90 17,487 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 118GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd 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 1948 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 405 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 18 (AE) Unknown 100 100 68 (B4) Unknown 0 0 5559 (B7) Unknown 100 100 8 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 50 214749544485 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 15227843030 (F7) Unknown 100 100 476235890 (F8) Unknown 100 100 2052288	51.6% Above average	Read 462 Write 320 Mixed 268 77% 350 MB/s	4K Read 13 4K Write 15.8 4K Mixed 9.74 40% 12.8 MB/s	DQ Read 36.7 DQ Write 24.3 DQ Mixed 13 14% 24.7 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 105%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CT51264BF186DJ.C8F HMT451S6MFR8A-PB 8GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 933, 800 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	10.7% Very poor	MC Read 3.5 MC Write 3.3 MC Mixed 4 10% 3.6 GB/s	SC Read 2.7 SC Write 3.1 SC Mixed 3 8% 2.93 GB/s	Latency 244 16% 244 ns
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 10.7% Great: 12%

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

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Gaming 2%

Tree trunk

Desktop 27%

Raft

Workstation 2%

Tree trunk

System: Acer Aspire E1-522

CPU
A4-5000 APUAMDBench 27%, 10,330 samples	30x
A6-5200 APUAMDBench 30%, 10,450 samples	28x
E1-2500 APUAMDBench 21%, 2,593 samples	14x

GPU
Radeon HD 8330AMDBench 2%, 8,573 samples	30x
Radeon HD 8400-R3AMDBench 2%, 11,968 samples	28x
HD 8240AMDBench 1%, 3,521 samples	14x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	7x
A400 120GBKingston $32Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	3x
SSD340 128GBTranscend $88Bench 67%, 2,082 samples	2x

RAM
HMT451S6MFR8A-PB 1x4GBHynixBench 27%, 3,182 samples	7x
ACR16D3LS1NBG/4G 1x4GBKingstonBench 26%, 1,256 samples	5x
ACR16D3LS1KFG/4G 1x4GBKingstonBench 24%, 6,155 samples	4x

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Value: 21% - Poor

Total price: $28

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