Show Us Your WEI [3]

My rig with it's new AMD Bulldozer 8120 OC'd to 4.58 Ghz. Ram is still far off it's potential @ 1832 mhz also WEI doesn't acknowledge my second Crossfired 5770 hawk.

It's actually a Sata III m4 SSD and it started life at 7.9 and has dropped to 7.4 but it's still blazing quick !

My dad gave me his old Dell XPS 400, I dunno, about 3 years ago. He had it for maybe 3 years before that. The thing is a dinosaur by modern computing standards.

It came stock from Dell with an Intel Pentium D 2.8 GHz dual core, 2 GB of RAM, a 256 MB GPU (I still have!) and some kind of Sound Blaster audio card.

When I got a hold of it, I promptly put a Linux distro on it and ran like that for well over a year. Then, I decided to max the RAM to 4 GB and drop a GeForce 9500 GT with 1 GB of vRAM in it. I also put a SSD in at one point. AWESOME! It ran Linux like a charm. However, with the advent of the Gnome 3 and Unity desktop environments, I decided to put Windows 7 x64 on it.

Here is the WEI with all the stuff I just mentioned:

Overall WEI = 4.5

Processor: 4.5
Memory (RAM): 5.4
Graphics: 4.9
Gaming Graphics: 6.3
Primary HD: 7.5



Today, I received some very reasonably priced upgrade parts.
I installed an Intel Pentium D 3.6 GHz dual core processor, a Zotac GTX 440 with 2 GB vRAM and an Asus Xonar DG audio card with S/PDIF fiber optic out.

Here is the difference the CPU and GPU made. It's not much but it is a significantly snappier overall experience. I can now play Diablo III without any problems!

Good upgrade buggsy!

Nice job Bug, that's the way to do it.

Well done on the AMD rig, Alan. You'll like that. Real good job.

linnemeyerhere said:

My rig with it's new AMD Bulldozer 8120 OC'd to 4.58 Ghz. Ram is still far off it's potential @ 1832 mhz also WEI doesn't acknowledge my second Crossfired 5770 hawk.

Your rig makes me jelous, lol. I still like mine a lot, lol

Nice rig, Bobby. Well done.