Show Us Your WEI

03hdfatboy said:

Here is mine..thought it would be better

Hello 03, welcome to Se7en Forums; that's odd, my single 4870 gets a 7.3 with no oc.

nate42nd said:

I know the 9500GT is not the greatest thing ever but is this normal? A 4.2 on Aero and desktop and 6.3 on gaming graphics? Most I see here seem to be a lot closer.....Is this even correct?

Hello Nate, they have lowered the scores for some of the older cards but that seems too low.

Hey BFK, you think so too....

I guess it does not matter too much but those two scores have been closer in the past. Ah well...what can I do.... (besides buy a new 300 series GTX) haha

nate42nd said:

Hey BFK, you think so too....

I guess it does not matter too much but those two scores have been closer in the past. Ah well...what can I do.... (besides buy a new 300 series GTX) haha

Yes, that's as good a reason as any to buy a new card.

03hdfatboy said:

Here is mine..thought it would be better

The CPU, RAM and HDD are right, but the card should be scoring higher. Have you installed cat 9.8 yet? (it doesn't count dual/crossfire in the score either)

Thought i'd show you the improvement to my WEI caused by the installation of a new Intel X-25M Gen 2 SSD as my Windows 7 System Partition.

Before - Running off a 7200rpm Western Digital drive


After - Running off the SSD


As you can see, an incredible increase in WEI from 5.7 to 7.7 for Hard Drive performance, and for some reason my RAM performance has leapt from 5.4 to 5.9.

I am still however bottlenecking on my processor for my overall WEI performance. This is because my Intel 945 Express chipset will not cope with anything more modern than a Pentium D. I cannot overclock mine either due to a Dell motherboard.

However, I am pleased to report than Windows 7 performance on my Dell XPS400 is amazing with the SSD - boot time is exteremely fast, and applications installed on the SSD open very quickly even compared with my previous Win 7 RC install. This SSD has given the Desktop a further lease of life which will easily see it through the next three years or so (as I am not a bleeding edge gamer).

As the sticker in the SSD box states, 'My SSD Rocks!'