Thread: Acer Aim X3400

At first glance, you may observe a resemblance among the Acer Aspire X3400 and the Gateway SX2311-03 budget desktop. But still though together budget desktops have comparably fresh proportions and a sure similitude in common look (minus few glossy paneling here and there), they are through no means matches in construction and characteristics. Acer's budget Computer is inexpensive sufficient to create it a compelling--but not exact--package.


Component of the conclude for the Acer's system less price is its III-core AMD Athlon2X3 435 processor, clocked at 2.9GHz. The SX2311-03 is furnished with a quad-core Phenom 2X4 820. Together systems share the similar amount of DDRIII memory--IVGB in entire--though Acer too dilutes the memory life of its desktop to 500 GB versus the SX2311-03's OneTB.


Still given these versions, however, the 2 systems are pretty still in common function. Acer's X3400 hits a score of 104 on our WorldBench Six try suite--IV points after Gateway's SX2311-03. But together systems pale following to



Gateway's midsize tower Computer, the SX2840-01, which earned a mark of 118 on WorldBench Six. Predictably (given their budget forms) none of the 3 systems delivered playable frame ranges on our gaming benchmarks.


Overall, the X3400 appear is bit low likeable than the Gateway SX2311-03's. The glossy paneling on Gateway's organization demonstrates a smoother, cleaner expect than the paneling on the Acer desktop. However, we appreciated Acer's plan conclusion to conceal the system's Digital Video Disc burner and front-side slots underneath those panels.


The X3400's inner is low impressive. As inner the Gateway SX2311-03, you can not get at the hard drive field less first removing the visual drive. More annoyingly, you can not delete or input memory without doing the similar thing. There are no free bays for extra 3.5” or 5.25” machines, though 2 open ports stay on the CPU board for a PCI Express x16 and PCI Express x1 include-on card. No part of the system is screwless.


Acer's X3400 copes with Gateway's SX2311-03 in entire connectivity, with 5 USB slots and a multiformat card reader on the front, and 4 more USB slots, a gigabit ethernet port, an eSATA port, a VGA port, an HDMI port, and incorporated 5.1 environment sound on the rear. HDMI essentially substitutes what would otherwise be a standard DVI slot, leaving but one eSATA slot as the just actual "next-generation" extending either system shares.