Show Us Your WEI [4]

N00berG00ber said:

Heres my scores with my SSD in it. Idk why, but my CPU was at 7.6 before i reinstalled windows. now its at 7.5.... whatever, still some good scores!

Possibly due to background programs running at the same time as testing wei. You could try using msconfig.exe and turning off as many non-Microsoft programs as possible, then rebooting, letting the computer sit idle for 5 mins, then retesting WEI.

I think too much emphasis is put on WEI in the first place. Sure it's a good way to measure some basic hardware strengths and weaknesses but I think doing day to day tasks and seeing if you're satisfied with your computer is what counts the most. My 2 cents.

crankypenguin said:

I think too much emphasis is put on WEI in the first place. Sure it's a good way to measure some basic hardware strengths and weaknesses but I think doing day to day tasks and seeing if you're satisfied with your computer is what counts the most. My 2 cents.

Exactly! Although mostly good for bragging rights, WEI is (actually, was with Win 8.1) a useful tool for benchmarking performance. A change in the WEI score can indicate if new hardware or software was an improvement or not or if existing hardware or software is going south. However, as long as the computer does what you want, the WEI is just a figure.

I wonder how WEI determines it's scores exactly....more of a rhetorical question than a real one. I am going to search for the answer on Google and sure I will find it :) It probably does a preset type of calculations for each parameter specified and scores your PC, I wonder if it compares to other scores, given the hardware is an exact match :P