Show Us Your WEI (2)

[Dave76]

My new computer:

UEFI + GPT + AHCI

Intel Core i7 860
AMD Radeon 5750
2x2 GB DDR3-1333
Intel DP55WB
Intel X25-V (I'm going to use this until Intel's 25nm drives come out)

Nice new computer, very nice scores

We have the same SSD and the same SSD plan, my -V is going to the second HD bay on my laptop hopefully by the end of the year.

Hey, new here

Hi hi87, Welcome to Seven Forums.

Nice rig and very nice scores

 

[blackroseMD1]

The GeForce 257.29 drivers gave me a little (0.1) bump in graphics, and turning off turbo in my bios bumped up my processor score from 7.3 to 7.4. Not huge jumps, admittedly, but still an improvement. Gonna OC my video card once I get a better cooling system, and bump the processor up a little more. Should probably look at getting an SSD sometime soon.

 

[Dave76]

Any increase, is a good increase.

That Primary hard disk score is kinda low for those two HDDs.
Are you using AHCI settings?
Somethings not right there.

You will be very happy with a SSD.

If you put all of your personal data, files, pics, music, etc. on your HDD you can use a small SSD.
This is what I've been doing for years, data in another partition, so using a small 40GB SSD is easy for me.
OS and all programs are 15.2GB used and 21.9GB free.

It's a noticeable performance increase , I'll never go back to a HDD for my main OS.

 

[blackroseMD1]

Any increase, is a good increase.

You will be very happy with a SSD.

If you put all of your personal data, files, pics, music, etc. on your HDD you can use a small SSD.
This is what I've been doing for years, data in another partition, so using a small 40GB SSD is easy for me.
OS and all programs are 15.2GB used and 21.9GB free.

It's a noticeable performance increase , I'll never go back to a HDD for my main OS.

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking about doing. I would have 1 SSD and 3 HDD in my machine. SSD for the OS and programs, 2 1TB disks...one for file backup and one for system backup, and then a spare 350GB for whatever.

 

[Chase]

Here's mine:

 

[noobvious]

Here's mine:

Looks like a solid system to me!

 

[Chase]

Here's mine:

Looks like a solid system to me!

Thanks.

I've been considering whether upgrading to a SSD drive would be worth the investment?

Is it really that much of an increase in performance?

 

[noobvious]

Here's mine:

Looks like a solid system to me!

Thanks.

I've been considering whether upgrading to a SSD drive would be worth the investment?

Is it really that much of an increase in performance?

From what I hear, yes.....everything opens almost instantly. But I haven't ever had the chance to try one myself.

 

[smarteyeball]

I've been considering whether upgrading to a SSD drive would be worth the investment?

Is it really that much of an increase in performance?

The amount of happy campers would tend to suggest it is

 

[Chase]

Alright, thanks for the feedback.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

I just did 2 new "clean all" installs and here are the differences.

AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista

Show your SSD ~ Post #538

Installed as PATA/IDE




Installed as AHCI


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[noobvious]

I just did 2 new "clean all" installs and here are the differences.

AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista

Installed as PATA/IDE

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Installed as AHCI

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Looks impressive, Ted!

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Thanks Randy!

 

[A Guy]

I just did 2 new "clean all" installs and here are the differences.

AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista

Show your SSD ~ Post #538

Installed as PATA/IDE

View attachment 78915


Installed as AHCI

View attachment 78916
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Quite an improvement Ted, I haven't read up, is AHCI a SSD only thing?

A Guy

 

[Airbot]

No.

 

[tw33k]

Nice numbers Ted

 

[A Guy]

What would be the advantage of enabling AHCI beyond better WEI numbers? I'm not going to something just so my #'s look better (Hey look, I'm ASKING questions on Seven Forums ).

A Guy

 

[Airbot]

Why don't you ask that here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/61869-ahci-enable-windows-7-vista.html?ltr=A

This thread is really just for showing off scores.

 

[dja2k]

Hi guys, I wonder what you all think about my score. Its nothing special, just a Core 2 Duo E8400 overclocked. I was looking around on why my physical disk score is always the lowest and came across this forum.

dja2k

 

[A Guy]

Hi guys, I wonder what you all think about my score. Its nothing special, just a Core 2 Duo E8400 overclocked. I was looking around on why my physical disk score is always the lowest and came across this forum.

dja2k

Welcome to Seven Forums dja2k, good numbers you have there. If you can eke out more performance, the guys here can help you

A Guy