WEI went DOWN after installing video card

I'm happy with my computer, as I mostly do email, forums, and the like. I'm curious though, as I was using the onboard graphics (Intel 82945G on an old Dell OptiPlex GX620) but yesterday installed an XFX Radeon HD5450 (Ebay/New) to get an HDMI output allowing me to use my larger TV in my living room as a monitor when desired. I originally had a WEI score of 3.3 and now have a score of 2.9? As stated above, I'm happy with the setup but thought as the graphics score was the low item in the list (all 4 other scores are mid 5s) that a better card would increase the score. I don't need to change anything as it works fine, but don't understand...Is the Radeon card a poorer performer than the onboard? It certainly looks great to me! Anyway, thanks in advance for any thoughts.....Bill

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
Did you update the drivers,
Are connectded to it ?
I'm not a fan of radeon hd cards personally :/
Asus rules

Drivers are latest available (7.12.0.7717 dated 9-17-13) according to device manager. (I just ran it).
Yes, both are connected to it and both screens function well, singly and together.
No other programs were running except a IE browser window.
Yeah, I just bought cheapest with HDMI because of my limited needs.
I am very happy with the results for $30, just thought the score reduction was odd.

Just thinking (very dangerous)....Would anything change if I disabled the on-board graphics? There's nothing connected to that motherboard VGA port but I didn't do anything software-wise.

Hmmm, Just tried......BIOS states that when using a PCI-E graphics card (which this IS and is recognized and running), the internal graphics are auto-disabled- nothing I could change there. So that idea was no help!
Thankfully, this is just curiousity, everything works fine. The score just bugs me!