Acer AX1930-UR10P: Boring, but Fast - albatescomirce

At a Glance

Expert's Military rating

Pros

Great general performance
Small chassis

Cons

Limited connectivity options
Ho-hum storage capacity

Our Verdict

You can't wait a miracle from a $500 budget PC; this Acer machine couples solid speeds with a cookie-cutter design.

The Genus Acer AX1930-UR10P is a bit of a tidal bore: Its Arenaceous Bridge-settled speed is the only element we truly enjoy on this $500 screen background, as the rest of what Genus Acer brings to the hold over is juiceless–even when we factor the typical constraints of budget desktops.

The AX1930's Intel Core i3-2120 Central processor delivers two cores of processing powerfulness (expanded to iv with the chip's built-in hyperthreading) at a clock speed of 3.3GHz. That, coupled with four gigabytes of remembering, does much to help the AX1930 achieve not bad scores for the budget category on our WorldBench 6 suite of tests. In point of fact, its score of 136 is right up on that point with some of the best budget desktops we've tested with a comparable price.

The system's included hard drive sits at 500 gigabytes, but around competing $500 systems come to a full terabyte. Just a standard DVD combo drive and multiformat card reader grace the front of the AX1930's compact chassis. While it's difficult to find Blu-ray support happening a scheme at this price, it's not impossible: the Micro Evince MicroFlex 23B does information technology for exclusively $100 to a greater extent (with enough of other extra features, to boot).

Internally, well, there's non much to hash out. The system's minuscule case has no more room to add any to a greater extent hard drives or optical drives–you'd have to replace what is already there, and you better drive out your entire afternoon schedule before you start dig for the AX1930's disk drive. Along the plus side, the budget PC comes with a free PCI Show x16 and x1 port–only once again, this small system won't accommodate a beefy discrete video board.

That's doomed, too, as the AX1930's integrated art aren't back-geared for modern gaming in the slightest (go figure). We could achieve playable frame rates on our Unreal Tournament benchmark only when we dialed back the resolution to 1024 by 768 (on both intermediate and high-superior settings).

The front of the system comes with two USB ports; that's it. The organization's rear bumps the aggregate number of USB ports to eight, but you won't line up any other connections for external devices–just good ol' USB 2.0. A single VGA port, an HDMI port, and a gigabit ethernet port round out the list.

While we apprize that Acer tosses next-generation geeks a drum with the HDMI support, we didn't see a DVI converter included with our review unit. Those with slightly older monitors that support upright DVI or VGA testament have to go shopping for a converter Beaver State drop down to a lesser connection–an annoying extra step, if you ask US.

The keyboard and mouse that came with the AX1930 PC were both wired. Piece the two-button mouse (with scroll wheel around) was generic and simple, the keyboard did contain a number of extra function buttons launching applications and dominant playacting media. It's a subtle, simply enjoyable touch–we do love having all the power at our fingertips that we can get.

It's semihard to get hold the perfect combination of features on a system that hovers around the $500 price point. Competitory desktops might not go better load up-outs across all areas, but they at least ease up potential purchasers something to solve with for a few categories–and they generally put on't demand much more hard currency. Omit for its velocity and diminutive size, the AX1930 is mundane whatever way you want to slice it.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/469200/acer_ax1930_ur10p_boring_but_fast.html

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