Acer Aspire TC-885-ACCFLi3O Review - Quick Verdict
The Acer Aspire TC-885-ACCFLi3O is an affordable, entry-level desktop PC that is aimed at light users like students and home users. The device is also a good fit to be a secondary computer. The PC comes with all the specs you need to take care of your daily tasks. You can also do some gaming on this machine with the help of the integrated GPU. If you’re looking for a simple, affordable and reliable desktop PC, then this one is a solid choice.
- Affordable budget PC
- Handles everyday activities with ease
- Inclusion of optane memory is a performance boost
- Only 8 gigs of RAM
Author's Rating
When the market is crowded with flagships, it can be a bit of a challenge to find a good budget PC. If you’re are looking for one, then you’re in the right place. The Acer Aspire TC-885-ACCFLi3O is a new budget offering from Acer that comes with the bare minimum and does more than what a light user would need on a daily basis.
In this Acer Aspire TC-885-ACCFLi3O review, we take a good, deep look at this new desktop computer. With a budget price, the specs on this desktop are impressive. On paper, they sound capable of handling the everyday routine of most uses without any problem. Is this PC worth your hard-earned money? Let’s see that in the full review below.
Design
The Acer Aspire TC-885-ACCFLi3O does not offer anything new when it comes to the design department. It comes with the same old box cabinet style and measures around 13.78 x 13.39 x 6.42 inches. With these dimensions, the desktop can fit in any table and in any room. The desktop has the same olf black matte color finish which is nice.
The front face of the desktop is fairly simple. It comes with a stylish power button on the top. There is an optical drive just below it and is a vertical one. You can also find a USB type C port, a USB 3.0 port, an SD card reader and also an audio in and audio out jack. The rest of the ports can be found on the backside.
The desktop comes with a standard wired keyboard and mouse. The keyboard has a nice tactile feel to it and is a pleasure to type on. As this is a full keyboard, you also get a dedicated number pad which is nice. The mouse is a standard one and nothing new to rave over. It gets the job done.
Acer Aspire TC-885-ACCFLi3O Specs
The Acer Aspire TC-885-ACCFLi3O comes with an Intel Core i3 processor from the 8th generation. This i3 8100 processor is a quad-core processor and comes with a clock speed of 3.60GHz. With the help of turbo boost, the processor can give a little extra with a maximum clock speed of 4.0GHz.
The i3 chip comes with a cache memory of 6MB which is nice for using office applications. Though this is an i3 processor, it is a heavy-duty one. The processor scores a benchmark score of 8018 which is a proof for how powerful this processor actually is.
The desktop can handle all the everyday activities without any problem. You can have fun browsing the internet, play your favorite music, watch movies and TV series, download files, and even work on your office stuff. The processor is powerful enough to handle even some heavy applications. If you’re a heavy user, then you’ll surely appreciate what this processor achieves.
The processor is not alone in this and is complemented by an 8GB DDR4 RAM in the memory department. This is a common amount of RAM to be found in a budget machine. The good thing is that you can do an awful lot with this memory. You can run multiple apps at the same time without any performance issues. If you need more RAM, you can always upgrade in the future.
Storage, Gaming, and Connectivity
The Acer Aspire TC-885-ACCFLi3O comes with a 1TB hard drive disk. This is a mechanical drive and comes with really slow speeds. If you’ve not used SSDs, you should be fine with this speed. The good about this HDD is that it gives you all the space you need.
Acer knew that this HDD’s speed would be a problem so they also included a 16GB optane memory to keep the latest apps in memory. This improves the user experience by a big margin. If you’re using an application frequently, then that app would be moved to this memory and you can now open that app with really good speeds. All this moving is algorithmic so the user gets very little control here.
How’s the gaming performance on this desktop? The Acer Aspire TC-885-ACCFLi3O is not a desktop that is designed for gaming. We have the Intel HD graphics 630 graphics card which is the integrated GPU. This GPU allows you to run some light games and even some mid-range games in their full glory. If you want to run high-end games, then you should mercilessly reduce the settings to achieve a decent frame rate.
The Acer Aspire TC-885-ACCFLi3O comes with a ton of connectivity options. In addition to the ports in the front, there are 4 USB 2.0 ports, a couple of USB 2.0 ports, an HDMI port, a VGA port, an Ethernet port, and audio jacks. There is also support for wireless standards like WiFi and Bluetooth.
Bottomline
The Acer Aspire TC-885-ACCFLi3O is a budget desktop computer that comes with all the essential features. The processing power of this desktop is good enough to handle all your everyday activities. You can even throw some heavy stuff at this desktop as well. With light gaming, it is not all work. If you’re looking for a simple desktop computer for students and home users, then this one is a good fit.