Show Us Your WEI

[Jig Saw]

Here's mine from an old test laptop I have:

 

[ikilledkenny]

Here's mine from an old test laptop I have:

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I have that exact same chip and mine scores a 3.2. Have you installed the drivers?

 

[steelbom]

I'm running Mac OSX w/ Parallels 4.0, and I have this WEI, the graphics score is pretty bad, but everything else is ok..I think... can't wait till Windows Aero is supported =)

 

[ikilledkenny]

I'm running Mac OSX w/ Parallels 4.0

Buy a PC. Dump your overpriced piece of crap for something that works.


/Don't like macs as much as I used to. Saw some stupid ads...

 

[bloke]

Buy a PC. Dump your overpriced piece of crap for something that works.


/Don't like macs as much as I used to. Saw some stupid ads...

With ya on that 1. I prefere to build than buy, they make 2much profit on pre built systems that u can use to upgrade stuff urself

 

[steelbom]

Man, some windows people are so angry at Mac =)

I'd never change BACK to a windows computer, my Mac isn't that expensive, if you know where to buy stuff from.
The equiv. Windows PC would be more expensive I'd bet (unless building yourself), and the features, benefits, stability, ease of use, and the support of Mac outway even Windows 7.

Only thing I use Windows for, is to develop Windows applications, and for gaming =)

(Ponders, if he can get in trouble for saying this on the windows forums )

EDIT: -> I liked the ads =)

 

[KMoore4318]

Man, some windows people are so angry at Mac =)

I'd never change BACK to a windows computer, my Mac isn't that expensive, if you know where to buy stuff from.
The equiv. Windows PC would be more expensive I'd bet (unless building yourself), and the features, benefits, stability, ease of use, and the support of Mac outway even Windows 7.

Only thing I use Windows for, is to develop Windows applications, and for gaming =)

(Ponders, if he can get in trouble for saying this on the windows forums )

EDIT: -> I liked the ads =)

As far as expense goes, if you have your old builds around, and can use old hard drives, memory, keybord mouse,graphics card, and case, my last I-7 build was under $500, not bad for a 4 GHZ 8 core build. Microcenter had 920D0 chips for $199.99 and you can find X58 motherboards for $200, another $100 for a good cooler, My score on my new build is only 5.9 because of hard drive,but I'm still impresed with it Try to find a MAC that can do what this can do for $500



If I add a ssd to this build I think I can match the score on my 965 build

 

[steelbom]

Unfortunately, unless your tech guru, most people can't build their own computer, despite how easy it is, they either don't have time, think it's too hard, or can't be bothered.

$500 to upgrade it, but what was the cost of your previous build,
I highly doubt it you got it for free.

Still a very cheap for an 8-core i7 though, you won't find a Mac for that,
but if you work all day, based on the time it will take you to: learn how to build a computer, order the parts, put the parts in, fix any problems you will likely encounter if your learning, then it's a bit more than $500.

I can upgrade my Mac Pro easily, graphics card, (although only a few to choose from unfortunately), HDD's, RAM, if you get them from the right place it's incredibly cheap.

Mac & Windows each have their own benefits, IMO windows for games, and Mac for everything else, particularly work.

 

[bloke]

ive never understood y mac has to have its own line of hardware, is it a driver thing or hard related?they would b better off being universal. Imagine the sales increase.

 

[steelbom]

There may be more behind it than this, but because it's all made by apple, it is all compatible with each other, you'll never have hardware problems with Mac, well, at least I haven't.

I do KNOW graphics cards (for pcs) have to be flashed, to be compatible with Mac, and that means they're unstable and can stop working at any moment, so I prefer to stick with apple qualified graphics cards, and the apple ram has something different about it that makes it stay cooler, so the fan is pretty much non-existant, if you were to put normal ram into a mac (that didn't wasn't apple qualified ram), it would overheat, I'm not sure about any other hardware.

Sales might not increase in the regard, that Mac users like the stability, knowing everything, including the OS, is built by Apple.

 

[SmurfLogic]

My new DeskTop
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[steveej]

help, my wei i think is wrong!

hi guys my score has some problems(im on vista) what should i do? i already tried to redo the test(did not work) it used to be a 5.0! must be from my vista 32bit, gonna go upgrade to 64 bit and get some more ram and larger hdd! w00t!

 

[ikilledkenny]

hi guys my score has some problems(im on vista) what should i do? i already tried to redo the test(did not work) it used to be a 5.0! must be from my vista 32bit, gonna go upgrade to 64 bit and get some more ram and larger hdd! w00t!

Post this on the Vista forums. This forum is specifically for Windows 7.

But while you're here, you could have a look at the Microsoft Website and email their support if you're that concerned with it.

 

[adamsuail]

WEI score 5

Score = 5

i7 920 @ 3.92 = 7.7
RAM = 7.9 OCZ 6 GB DDR3 1600 MHZ runing @ 1560 MHZ (triple chanel)
Graphics = 5.1 GeForce 8600 GT O.C. mem @ 460 GPU @ 601 Shader @ 1210
Gaming graphics = 5
HD = 5.9 RAID0 two maxters 160 GB, 125 read 122 write

 

[Andy Carr]

Happy with this

 

[conoflex]

Happy with this

I would be too what spec is your comp I'm curious cos of your 6.8 on hard drive, can't get my raid (2x150gb raptor's) set up above 6.2

 

[Andy Carr]

It's a Core i7 920 with OCZ Vertex 60gb as my OS drive

Thanks to kensiko I upgraded my firmware and trimmed it which pushed the score up from around 6.0.

When you build a new system it's always hard to judge whether the money is well spent, I think this time it was well worth it.

 

[John Henry]

I'm curious tu see a 7.9 point system.

 

[adamsuail]

Kooool

Happy with this

Kool score buddyy, but why not O.C the 920?....you can get 7.7 like mine.
*would appreciate if u tell me which graphic card and what O.C is it running at

*ignore the question please, its all in your profile

 

[Andy Carr]

Kool score buddyy, but why not O.C the 920?....you can get 7.7 like mine.
*would appreciate if u tell me which graphic card and what O.C is it running at

*ignore the question please, its all in your profile

Have overclocked it a little and was @ 3.0GHz with my RAM upto 1800 with slightly lower timings. don't need the power at the moment so will run it at stock for now