Show Us Your WEI [4]

A Guy · 16 Jun 2013

The GT 520 is a less then high end video card I'm afraid. It lists considerably lower then my GT 240 (GDDR5) for instance

Graphics Card Hierarchy Chart - Best Graphics Cards For The Money: May 2013

Some of our experts may have some ideas, but that may be the limit for that card. A Guy

emmett82 · 16 Jun 2013

well i plan on getting msi geforce gt640 4gb how good is that compared to the galaxy tech geforce 520 1gb

A Guy · 16 Jun 2013

Have a look at the chart in the link in my above post. That is a considerable jump, above my GT 240. A Guy

paulpicks21 · 16 Jun 2013

pillainp said:

On my new (upgraded) system with the SSD in place and running Windows:

Great scores pillian

Lady Fitzgerald · 16 Jun 2013

While a great WEI gives one bragging rights, at the end of the day, it's performance in actual use that matters. If your rig meets your needs and is fast enough for you, the WEI doesn't really matter. What does matter is if your performance starts to suffer, either spontaneously or after a modification, a change in the WEI can give you an idea where the problem lies.

pillainp · 17 Jun 2013

Lady Fitzgerald said:

While a great WEI gives one bragging rights, at the end of the day, it's performance in actual use that matters. If your rig meets your needs and is fast enough for you, the WEI doesn't really matter. What does matter is if your performance starts to suffer, either spontaneously or after a modification, a change in the WEI can give you an idea where the problem lies.

It's just I was kind of stunned to see the difference an SSD could make in the Hard Disk Scores. I was stuck at 5.9 with my previous mechanical HDD.

I was kind of expecting the incremental upgrade from the new CPU and RAM.

The SSD score kind of knocked my socks off.

Lady Fitzgerald · 17 Jun 2013

pillainp said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

While a great WEI gives one bragging rights, at the end of the day, it's performance in actual use that matters. If your rig meets your needs and is fast enough for you, the WEI doesn't really matter. What does matter is if your performance starts to suffer, either spontaneously or after a modification, a change in the WEI can give you an idea where the problem lies.

It's just I was kind of stunned to see the difference an SSD could make in the Hard Disk Scores. I was stuck at 5.9 with my previous mechanical HDD.

I was kind of expecting the incremental upgrade from the new CPU and RAM.

The SSD score kind of knocked my socks off.

And I'll wager the performance of the SSD over the HDD also rendered you sockless!

Britton30 · 18 Jun 2013

pillainp said:

It's just I was kind of stunned to see the difference an SSD could make in the Hard Disk Scores. I was stuck at 5.9 with my previous mechanical HDD.

I was kind of expecting the incremental upgrade from the new CPU and RAM.

The SSD score kind of knocked my socks off.

It could also render you unable to eliminate solid waste.

Lady Fitzgerald · 18 Jun 2013

Britton30 said:

pillainp said:

It's just I was kind of stunned to see the difference an SSD could make in the Hard Disk Scores. I was stuck at 5.9 with my previous mechanical HDD.

I was kind of expecting the incremental upgrade from the new CPU and RAM.

The SSD score kind of knocked my socks off.

It could also render you unable to eliminate solid waste.

Ouch!

A Guy · 18 Jun 2013

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Britton30 said:

pillainp said:

It's just I was kind of stunned to see the difference an SSD could make in the Hard Disk Scores. I was stuck at 5.9 with my previous mechanical HDD.

I was kind of expecting the incremental upgrade from the new CPU and RAM.

The SSD score kind of knocked my socks off.

It could also render you unable to eliminate solid waste.

Ouch!

That wasn't on the package!

A Guy