Show Us Your WEI [3]

[Trev0r09]

Aren't we all?
I'm itching to do a new build but kinda waiting to see a better "step up" in the hardware arena. I haven't been impressed except with the Vertex-4. I'll take a look again in a few months.

"haven't been impressed"?

My Sandy Bridge laptop (i5-2410M CPU) with a Vertex3 SATA3 120 GB SSD on a 6 Mbps port gets 515 MB/s writes, and 552 MB/s reads, which almost saturates it.

 

[carwiz]

Aren't we all?
I'm itching to do a new build but kinda waiting to see a better "step up" in the hardware arena. I haven't been impressed except with the Vertex-4. I'll take a look again in a few months.

"haven't been impressed"?

My Sandy Bridge laptop (i5-2410M CPU) with a Vertex3 SATA3 120 GB SSD on a 6 Mbps port gets 515 MB/s writes, and 552 MB/s reads, which almost saturates it.

Good numbers indeed! What I mean is the current motherboards, memory, processors and SSDs just don't impress me enough to abandon what I have now. I do more than just run benchmarks and the real-life (to me) activity doesn't justify 100Mhz more of processor power for the cost. That's where the real work happens.

 

[Dave76]

Good point, there is no reason to move from a i7-2600 to any Ivy Bridge CPU, unless you have to have the latest or a couple points on a bench mark matter to you.
Real life performance wouldn't be noticeable.

First gen i5/i7 will see improvements but not huge, any previous gen then yes.

 

[Trev0r09]

Aren't we all?
I'm itching to do a new build but kinda waiting to see a better "step up" in the hardware arena. I haven't been impressed except with the Vertex-4. I'll take a look again in a few months.

"haven't been impressed"?

My Sandy Bridge laptop (i5-2410M CPU) with a Vertex3 SATA3 120 GB SSD on a 6 Mbps port gets 515 MB/s writes, and 552 MB/s reads, which almost saturates it.

Good numbers indeed! What I mean is the current motherboards, memory, processors and SSDs just don't impress me enough to abandon what I have now. I do more than just run benchmarks and the real-life (to me) activity doesn't justify 100Mhz more of processor power for the cost. That's where the real work happens.

Hey carwiz

Howzabout this, then?

The previous-mentioned laptop with the OCZ Vertex3 boots to a usable Windows 7 desktop in 14 seconds, vs about 40 seconds with a fast 7200 rpm HDD.

Right after a boot, it launches any LibreOffice app in the blink of an eye (spreadsheet, db, writer), Firefox, IE or Chrome also launch instantaneously.

Copying multi-gigabyte files is also nearly instantaneous. Warcraft Cataclysm and Eve Online Inferno both launch in about 8 seconds (as opposed to 40 seconds). I honestly couldn't ask for more, as far as "real world" is concerned.

Even the "fast" 7200 RPM Samsung 320 GB spinner drive (with 16 MB cache) that was in here feels like rowing a kayak through molasses now, by comparison. As most SSD users have experienced, it was a revelation for me. I'll never look back to the old HDD spinner drive technology.

 

[carwiz]

Been there. If you look at my system specs, I'm happy, for the time being, with this system's production. I was getting 18 second boots before adding a TV card. Now, at 38-40 seconds, It's still faster than my XP machine and blows the doors off anything it can do. I'm not against ANY of the current offerings. I'm just saying for me, the marginal gain isn't worth the bucks. At least not yet.

 

[Trev0r09]

Been there. If you look at my system specs, I'm happy, for the time being, with this system's production. I was getting 18 second boots before adding a TV card. Now, at 38-40 seconds, It's still faster than my XP machine and blows the doors off anything it can do. I'm not against ANY of the current offerings. I'm just saying for me, the marginal gain isn't worth the bucks. At least not yet.

I bought my 128 GB OCZ Vertex3 SATA3 SSD for $159 bucks at MicroCenter back in December, 2011. That was $1.24 per gigabyte, about what a new 120 GB spinner hard drive from Seagate, Western Digital or Maxtor cost when they came out way back in 2003. Even given the radically new technology, the cost/storage density price-point is scaling linearly.

The prices will only drop further, especially since OCZ (for example) has just introduced their Vertex4 line, with its new controller from newly-acquired Indilinx (it appears that the Sandforce party is over: mediocre performance with incompressible data).

Get 'em while they're hot!

 

[tw33k]

Not sure why CPU is only 7.7. It's @ 4.6GHz not 3.5GHz

 

[paulpicks21]

Nice results. Yeah it should be 7.8. Have you got hyperthreading on?

 

[Dave76]

Not sure why CPU is only 7.7. It's @ 4.6GHz not 3.5GHz

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Nice new rig, when did you get that?

Edit: Just saw your OC post, looks very nice.

 

[tw33k]

Nice results. Yeah it should be 7.8. Have you got hyperthreading on?

NO..I turned HT off when I OC'd. My FX-8150 @4.5GHz scors 7.8 so the 3770k @ 4.6GHz should as well.

 

[essenbe]

Turn hyperthreading on and it should get 7.8. it should get 7.8 @ 4.4

 

[JerometheGiraff]

WEI in your Laptop

What is your Laptops (if you have one) WEI ? I know the WEI is not a good measurement for your computer, but it tells a little bit on the power within your computer without explaining, this this is especially good for people who have no clue the difference between HDD and RAM.

 

[tw33k]

Turn hyperthreading on and it should get 7.8. it should get 7.8 @ 4.4

I get an error running WEI with HT on

 

[armyslowrdr]

7.8 with new graphics card

Installed this to go from 7.4 to 7.8. Guess the 500$ cpu instead of the 1,000$$ one prevents the .1

 

[A Guy]

Installed this to go from 7.4 to 7.8. Guess the 500$ cpu instead of the 1,000$$ one prevents the .1

You won't get the .1 with the $1000 CPU either, unless you add liquid nitrogen cooling to the mix. You have the best WEI possible without extreme measures.

A Guy

 

[tw33k]

Looks like it fixed itself..

 

[A Guy]

Looks like it fixed itself..

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There you go!

A Guy

 

[Dave76]

Looks like it fixed itself..

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Congrats

That's more like it, looks like a great machine

 

[tw33k]

It's great. Now I've just got to get my OC stable. It was fine @ 4.6GHz until yesterday. For some reason it started crashing. Gone back to stock until I get time to make adjustments

 

[essenbe]

Good job, tw33k. Well done.