Show Us Your WEI [4]

[Lady Fitzgerald]

WEI score

After seeing yours I would NEVER show mine.

Beautiful rating!

While I would never say getting a perfect WEI score is nothing to crow about, not having one is nothing to be ashamed of, either. The purpose of the WEI is to establish a baseline to compare to later on to determine if hardware performance is staying up to snuff or not. If you have, say an inexpensive notebook that has a WEI score of only, say, 5.3 but it meets your needs, it's all good since it is to be expected that low end hardware would have less performance than higher end hardware. The only time to be concerned is if, later down the road, it comes up as, say 4.7. Then you would need to be concerned because it would indicate that either your system has gone wonky or something in your hardware is failing.

My notebooks test low because of the graphics cards in them. I don't care about that because they are only 15" screens and they meet my needs just fine. But, if my desktop rig (definitely a high end machine despite its age) was to throw a WEI less than 7.8, I would be concerned.

 

[justinmccurdy25]

WEI score

After seeing yours I would NEVER show mine.

Beautiful rating!

thanks man, Ive heard in order to get a 7.9 on processor you have to have your cpu overclocked to like 4.8 or something like that.

 

[justinmccurdy25]

WEI score

After seeing yours I would NEVER show mine.

Beautiful rating!

While I would never say getting a perfect WEI score is nothing to crow about, not having one is nothing to be ashamed of, either. The purpose of the WEI is to establish a baseline to compare to later on to determine if hardware performance is staying up to snuff or not. If you have, say an inexpensive notebook that has a WEI score of only, say, 5.3 but it meets your needs, it's all good since it is to be expected that low end hardware would have less performance than higher end hardware. The only time to be concerned is if, later down the road, it comes up as, say 4.7. Then you would need to be concerned because it would indicate that either your system has gone wonky or something in your hardware is failing.

My notebooks test low because of the graphics cards in them. I don't care about that because they are only 15" screens and they meet my needs just fine. But, if my desktop rig (definitely a high end machine despite its age) was to throw a WEI less than 7.8, I would be concerned.

agreed!!

 

[jadinolf]

WEI score

After seeing yours I would NEVER show mine.

Beautiful rating!

thanks man, Ive heard in order to get a 7.9 on processor you have to have your cpu overclocked to like 4.8 or something like that.

Well, I'm still impressed.

Hi everyone. I am glad to see you.

 

[soomer]

WEI score.

 

[A Guy]

Welcome to Seven Forums soomer. Awesome score

A Guy

 

[gldndragn]

New to me laptop....Dell XPS 14Z L412Z. The fastest lappy I have EVER used.
WEI NOT fudged either.

 

[joedaman633]

Time to get yourself an SSD in that beaut

 

[gldndragn]

Time to get yourself an SSD in that beaut

No kidding.......but not in the budget just yet......also need to replace the LCD.
I done cracked the screen.....DOH

 

[cooltouch]

I have an 8yo laptop with an upgraded dual core processor running Win7 64-bit -- 2.8 GHz. It also has 8 Gb ram and a recent HD upgrade (1 Tb). I guess this score isn't bad. I've seen much lower.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
It would be a lot better with an ssd

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Hi,
It would be a lot better with an ssd

Not really. While replacing the HDD with an SSD would be well worth doing since it would dramatically reduce boot and program loading times, the WEI would still be limited to no more than 6.4.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Reduced heat along would make it worth it though

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Hi,
Reduced heat along would make it worth it though

True that, not to mention some increased battery life. Still, the biggest gain would be decreased boot and program loading times. there is no way I will ever have another computer with an HDD boot drive (actually, I won't have a computer with HDDs, period, anymore).

 

[Layback Bear]

Please notice the arrow. Using a ssd.






Jack

 

[ThrashZone]

I have an 8yo laptop with an upgraded dual core processor running Win7 64-bit -- 2.8 GHz. It also has 8 Gb ram and a recent HD upgrade (1 Tb). I guess this score isn't bad. I've seen much lower.

Hi cooltouch
Your score is about 2-1/2 years old
Use re-run assessment it may or may not increase

 

[A Guy]

Please notice the arrow. Using a ssd.


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Jack

Unicorn

A Guy

 

[Layback Bear]

Bill I'm not really sure what your post #1897 is indicating.
The picture I posted was not/is not altered in any fashion.

Jack

 

[A Guy]

That a 7.9 sighting for a drive is like seeing a unicorn. Wasn't implying anything. A Guy

 

[Mellon Head]

That a 7.9 sighting for a drive is like seeing a unicorn. Wasn't implying anything. A Guy

Not that rare. I found a unicorn too.