Show Us Your WEI

new score after reinstall and moving hdd's around: (was 2.0) - a little improved

I just love how my hard drives are 3.0
Rest of the scores are impressive.
Something tells me when I reformat to use all my HD's, score will go up dramatically.

I2aMpAnT said:

My Hard Drive score was 3.0 too. It was 5.9 in Vista...

like everybody it seems(dependent on hardware setup of course)

I2aMpAnT said:

What do you mean dependent on Hardware setup???

Not everybody will score 5.9 in Vista, depending on what CPU, GPU, RAM, etc.. they have.
People can have a score of 4.0 in Vista and still have 3.0 on their HD's in WIn 7.
Remember, Windows 7 is in beta form.:)

I did some serious WEI testing with a brand new from scratch install of Windows 7 build 7000 x64.

Here are my results:

WEI OOB



This happened because OOB my Seagate Barracuda drives have Command Queuing enabled, tremendously slowing the HDs down in terms of performance.

nForce 15.23 drivers, Command Queuing disabled.



nForce 15.23, CQ disabled, SLI



nForce 15.23, ForceWare 181.25 - W7 recognized a new driver and prompted for a new WEI



nForce 15.23, ForceWare 181.25, no SLI



Interestingly enough, enabling SLI cause another prompt that my HW had changed...

nForce 15.23, ForceWare 181.25, SLI, no OC at all



nForce 15.23, ForceWare 181.25, SLI, OC'd GPU, no OC'd CPU



nForce 15.23, ForceWare 181.25, SLI, CPU / GPU OC'd



End result - I get better Desktop WEI scores with the WDDM driver, but that does not include PhysX, AFAICT, and I think that is why the non WDDM drivers seem to drop over the WDDM driver.