The Acer Aspire X3400 is a budget PC that's inexpensive enough to make it a compelling - but not perfect - package.
Part of the reason for the Acer system's low cost is its triple-core AMD Athlon II X3 435 processor, clocked at 2.9GHz. There is 3GB DDR3 memory and a 640GB hard drive.
The Acer X3400 hits a score of 104 on our WorldBench 6 test suite, but couldn't deliver playable frame rates on our gaming benchmarks.
Overall, the Acer Aspire X3400 looks less appealing than similar priced desktip PCs. Nevertheless, we appreciated Acer's design decision to conceal the system's DVD burner and front-side ports beneath those panels.
The Acer Aspire X3400's interior is less impressive. You can't access the hard drive area without first removing the optical drive. More annoyingly, you can't remove or insert memory without doing the same thing. There are no free bays for additional 3.5- or 5.25-inch devices, though two open slots remain on the motherboard for a PCI Express x16 and PCI Express x1 add-on card. No part of the system is screwless.
Acer's X3400 has five USB ports and a multiformat card reader on the front, and four more USB ports, a gigabit ethernet port, an eSATA port, a VGA port, an HDMI port, and integrated 5.1 surround sound on the rear. HDMI essentially replaces what would otherwise be a standard DVI port, leaving but one eSATA port as the only real "next-generation" offering.
We enjoyed the keyboard that comes bundled with the Acer X3400; it includes a few additional buttons - and a volume wheel built directly into the keyboard's side - for one-touch application launching and media control. The mouse is a generic two-button model, serviceable but uninteresting.
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Comments
Ryanhackleton said: I have the acer aspire ax3400 it came with a 1tb hdd amp 4 gig ram so i another 4 gig t make it 8 gig and theres more slots culd i upgrade more as a pc tec dint know if i culd as a want t add another tb t make 2 tb plus i want another 4 gig ram
Sylergcs said: itdoesntover heat if u have the tower on its side also the powersupplyis fine
Sylergcs said: i got myacer aspire x3400 from brighthouse 4gb ddr3 ram 1tbhard drivethe only problem with the pc is the built in graphics card the 9200 its utter crap however acer screwed us over with the choise in motherboard it has no pci-e 20 slots so if u want to upgrade to a better gc u need to replace the MB
Pc Global said: conseder this as small pc how more it can be what i realy dont like about this is that the graphic card cand support ps or cs5 the process after using for some time screen start to blink more then one it gets over heat not to mantion the power supply issue i hope that acer will come up with somthing new fast iknow this computer is ideal for low budget but still we as users we need more