Show Us Your WEI

gastonia2695 said:

I am trying to improve my score. I am rather surprised by the score that I received given the system that I am running Windows 7 on; Latittude E6500 with 4 Gigs of memory. Any suggestions?

Unfortunately with a laptop, especially a non-gaming system like the XPS line, you're stuck with the graphics processor you have (ie: probably not upgradable).

Since you have a Dell Latitude, those are business-oriented PCs, and therefore they keep the same form factor across various models. Unfortunately, the motherboard and video card (if it's separate and not soldered to the motherboard) are proprietary. So you might be able to get a better video card for it, but it would be expensive, available only through Dell, and probably no guarantee on it working perfectly with your motherboard. In short, probably not upgradable.

I got a new Mobo and Graphics card so mine has gone up from 5.8 to 6.9

I tell you what, this is a load of horse hockey; the CPU and RAM went from 7.3 in 7201 to 7.1 in 7264




Later Ted

Vipermk2 said:

I got a new Mobo and Graphics card so mine has gone up from 5.8 to 6.9

Your WEI score is way off base. A GTS 250 is not going to outperform a GTX 280, GTX 285, or GTX 295, which all get 6.8 and lower (my GTX 285 SC 2GB card gets 6.6, and many GTX 295 cards get 6.5 because Windows 7/Vista does not make use of the SLI). And this is independent of overclocking the card, as 648MHz core vs. 750MHz core makes no difference in the WEI score.

So either yours is fudged or your Windows 7 is scoring way off. Your WEI score for a GTS 250 should be around 5.9.