PC Speed & Cleaning | Test Results

PC Startup Time

What’s more annoying than a PC that takes ages to boot? To see how much AVG PC TuneUp helped, we measured startup times down to the second:

Medion Desktop PC (2008): On our aging Windows 7 desktop PC, we had to wait almost 6 minutes after pushing the power button until we were able to use the machine. Once we optimized it with AVG PC TuneUp, startup time dropped to 159 seconds – and the PC was instantly usable.

Asus Zenbook UX-501: With typical amount of programs installed on Windows 10, the Zenbook took 39 seconds to start up. Once optimized though, startup time plunged to a mere 8.7 seconds.

53%
quicker startup
desktop PC

336

159

77%
quicker startup
Asus Zenbook UX-501

8.7

(Results shown in seconds)

5.4

FPS faster

HP Spectre x360

507

more points

on Alienware X51

(in points)

Playing 3D games

Games benefit the most from a perfectly tuned system. Using the 3DMark test, let’s see how AVG PC TuneUp sped up Grand Theft Auto V:

HP Spectre x360: When we installed everyday programs on this HP ultrabook, the 150 installed programs slowed Grand Theft Auto V down to 24.4 frames per second (fps). Once we gave it a good boost with AVG PC TuneUp, it went up to almost 30 fps which is considered smooth gameplay. Some gamers buy graphic cards just to achieve that.

Alienware X51: This 2012 gaming rig scored 4900 points in 3DMark with no tuning applied. After our treatment, the score rose to an astonishing 5407 points – that's better than any dangerous overclock!

Light & Heavy Work Performance

In the light work test, we used benchmarking tool PC Mark 8^® to test how much smoother web browsing, writing and photo editing was. For our heavy work test, we used Adobe Creative^® Suite tools (InDesign, PhotoShop and Illustrator):

Alienware X51: The time it took to render images, applying filters and exporting files using Adobe's products went down from 18 to 14 seconds – that's an improvement of 21% after our performance tuning.

Sony Vaio 2011: on this aging Windows 7 laptop, everyday programs had a massive effect on the PC Mark 8 score. AVG PC TuneUp was able to recover it and boost that from a low 901 points up to 2196. In other words: it now ran more than twice as fast.

21%
faster
Alienware X51

18.19

14.25

(in seconds)

143.7%
faster
Sony Vaio 2011

901

2196

(in points)

36%

faster

Sony Vaio 2011

47%

faster

HP Spectre x36

(in points)

Working in Microsoft Office^®

In our dedicated Office 2013 test, we measured how long it takes to insert photos or animations into PowerPoint^® and do complex calculations in Excel^®.

Sony Vaio 2011: This 4 year old laptop saw an uplift in performance of 36% - jumping from 591 to 801 points in our Office 2013 tests. Particularly larger office documents, such as PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets, were opened and handled a lot faster.

HP Spectre x360: All basic tasks in Office took noticeably longer to complete when programs were slowing down the Ultrabook. However, after the tuning steps were done, performance jumped by 36%.

(Results shown in points)

Cleaning unnecessary files

In our final test, we looked at how much disk space we were able to clean on both a 2008 desktop PC as well as an Asus Zenbook UX-501 ultrabook:

Desktop PC: Over the course of its 7-year lifecycle, it accumulated more than 75 GB of wasteful files. Thanks to AVG PC TuneUp, that space is now available for more movies, photos, and music.

Asus Zenbook UX-501: We got back 38.5 gigabytes, part of which was taken up by redundant backup files created when upgrading the machine from Windows 8 to Windows 10.

75 GB
of files cleaned
desktop PC

75221

38.5 GB
of files cleaned
Asus Zenbook UX-501

38463

(Results shown in MB)

We tested on a 7-year-old desktop PC and a brand-new ultrabook, both loaded up with 200 of the most popular software. To check out all our tests, procedures and how we optimized these systems, read our whitepaper here.