Show Us Your WEI [4]

[crankypenguin]

With my new motherboard and cpu, No overclock.

Pretty good, Cranky! Can't get much better than that!

Yeah I know right, I don't even see a reason to OC my current rig. It's already almost at the highest WEI. And I am staying with WIN7 so...I am happy.

 

[Britton30]

With my new motherboard and cpu, No overclock.

Nice Ralph, good job buddy!

 

[crankypenguin]

With my new motherboard and cpu, No overclock.

Nice Ralph, good job buddy!

Thanks man

 

[paulpicks21]

Very nice Ralph, I am real pleased you finally got your new parts and you are happy with them.
Nice one mate

 

[A Guy]

With my new motherboard and cpu, No overclock.

Great numbers Ralph

A Guy

 

[essenbe]

With my new motherboard and cpu, No overclock.

Nice job, Ralph. Very well done.

 

[Kyle Marks]

WEI Help.

This is my WEI as of now. Any tips on how to improve it? Or is it at its best?

 

[Britton30]

Welcome to Seven Forums Kyle Marks.

With a laptop you can install an SSD, it wouldn't change the score much, up to 5.6, but you would notice a big overall improvement, a real big one.

 

[Solarstarshines]

This is my WEI as of now. Any tips on how to improve it? Or is it at its best?

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There is not much you can do for the Graphics part of it unless you have a lot of memory to shift to it that would bring it up some with a little IGPU overclock

It won't be massive but it will be above 4.7 a good SSD as Britton mentioned would bring the Hard disk score up but the wei will likely be the same due to graphics

 

[Kyle Marks]

I'm not really familiar with SSD, and what it does, can someone enlighten me? And how can that improve my system? I know this is far from a gaming setup, but I just want the games I play to run smoothly. So I want to tweak my laptop a bit.

 

[Britton30]

A SSD, Solid State Drive, has no moving parts, uses very little power, generates no heat, operates about 50 times faster than a hard drive with spinning disks.

Here's one article for more info.

Advantages/Disadvantages - SSD vs HDD: What's the Difference? | PCMag.com

 

[Kyle Marks]

Wow, that's awesome. Never knew about this one 'till now. Thanks for the link as well!

 

[essenbe]

Welcome to the forums, Kyle Marks. You have some decent scores for a laptop and as Britton30 said, an SSD will make you think you have a new laptop. It won't help the rest of your scores, but it will drastically increase your hard disk score.

 

[A Guy]

His HDD shows it has 479GB used! He'd need a BIG SSD

A Guy

 

[Britton30]

His HDD shows it has 479GB used! He'd need a BIG SSD

A Guy

Yeah, this one would do the job.
Amazon.com: Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 750GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE750BW: Computers & Accessories

 

[Kyle Marks]

Ohh, thanks for that link. Will try to check out a few more to compare before buying.

 

[user31]

Rest is stock except for Crucial M4SSD. Gonna see about upgrading things soon. 7.8 on primary hard disk.

 

[whs]

All my laptops came with large HDDs - none survived the first day because I always replace them with SSDs. My largest laptop SSD is 90GB. I keep all the data on large sticks and back those up to external disks. My latest aquisition (Asus Transformer) has only a 30GB SSD. Here I use a 64GB MicroSD card for the data and a 60GB SSD that I had lying around for backup.

I just wanted to make the point that a laptop does not necessarily need a large expensive SSD. A 120GB model for $80 or a 256GB model for $130 is ample in my book. And the data on the sticks has the advantage that I don't need a cloud. I can carry my data with me.

Example: sold for $69 with promo code - Newegg.com - Mushkin Enhanced Ventura Ultra 120GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Model MKNUFDVU120GB - check the R/W speeds.

 

[user31]

All my laptops came with large HDDs - none survived the first day because I always replace them with SSDs. My largest laptop SSD is 90GB. I keep all the data on large sticks and back those up to external disks. My latest aquisition (Asus Transformer) has only a 30GB SSD. Here I use a 64GB MicroSD card for the data and a 60GB SSD that I had lying around for backup.

I just wanted to make the point that a laptop does not necessarily need a large expensive SSD. A 120GB model for $80 or a 256GB model for $130 is ample in my book. And the data on the sticks has the advantage that I don't need a cloud. I can carry my data with me.

Example: sold for $60 with promo code - Newegg.com - Mushkin Enhanced Ventura Ultra 120GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Model MKNUFDVU120GB - check the R/W speeds.

Those are excellent points. My original HD was around 220 GB. I swapped it with a 128 GB Crucial M4 SSD. What I did, was I kept the original HD for image backup. When you think about it, you don't really need a whole bunch hard disk space. All I need to work on is RAM and graphics.

 

[wpeacock2007]

My second custom built PC. pretty proud of it myself