Show Us Your WEI

Marinoprpic · 11 Apr 2010

ferjero989 said:

any1 knows how can i get more than 5.9 on my hard drive?
i got 2x Western Digital 80g running on raid zero... just for windows..
i got another 250gb hdd for downloads and data and another 500gb for videos and music and movies and stuff

you have to buy an SSD(solid state drive)

mbreslin · 11 Apr 2010

Intel x25-v can be found for under 100$ just keep an eye out, get 2 for raid 0 if you can afford it! Forget about what they will do for your wei hdd score, ssd is easily the best upgrade you can make as far as a performance boost you will actually notice. You'll never go back to mechanical drives for the OS.

Seven Eleven · 12 Apr 2010

DarkNovaGamer said:

Nothing major, but compared to my laptops WEI scores, this is earth shattering.

Attachment 66564

my 4200 is overclocked by 225Mhz and score is
Aero: 4.7
Gaming: 5.6

tomorrow i'm getting 5770. gonna see how much higher video scores will get

Dark Nova Gamer · 12 Apr 2010

Seven Eleven said:

DarkNovaGamer said:

Nothing major, but compared to my laptops WEI scores, this is earth shattering.

Attachment 66564

my 4200 is overclocked by 225Mhz and score is
Aero: 4.7
Gaming: 5.6

tomorrow i'm getting 5770. gonna see how much higher video scores will get

Do you mean OC'd via BIOS or something else? Whenever I tried setting a clock via BIOS it either became unstable or didn't improve the scores one bit.

Seven Eleven · 12 Apr 2010

DarkNovaGamer said:

Do you mean OC'd via BIOS or something else? Whenever I tried setting a clock via BIOS it either became unstable or didn't improve the scores one bit.

well at first it was overclocked with ASUS GPU NOS software (under XP x64).
when i upgraded to 7 i decided not to use NOS software and instead overclocked it in BIOS.

works rock solid @ 725mhz for little over a month now (games, benchmarks etc). no glitches no crashes. stock cooling aka heatsink.

@ 750 display starts to turn off so i lowered OC a little bit and it works like a charm.

Dark Nova Gamer · 12 Apr 2010

Seven Eleven said:

DarkNovaGamer said:

Do you mean OC'd via BIOS or something else? Whenever I tried setting a clock via BIOS it either became unstable or didn't improve the scores one bit.

well at first it was overclocked with ASUS GPU NOS software (under XP x64).
when i upgraded to 7 i decided not to use NOS software and instead overclocked it in BIOS.

works rock solid @ 725mhz for little over a month now (games, benchmarks etc). no glitches no crashes. stock cooling aka heatsink.

@ 750 display starts to turn off so i lowered OC a little bit and it works like a charm.

Hmm I had no problems with 750, though I saw no improvement. Will look into it further, thanks.

Did you leave the memory size (how much RAM it uses) set to Auto?

Seven Eleven · 12 Apr 2010

DarkNovaGamer said:

Hmm I had no problems with 750, though I saw no improvement. Will look into it further, thanks.

Did you leave the memory size (how much RAM it uses) set to Auto?

you're welcome. sideport memory is 128MB. and i set UMA to 256MB. so together it is 384MB.

tw33k · 12 Apr 2010

smarteyeball said:

tw33k said:

I love being able to buy what I "need"

Buying what you want is even better

I don't differentiate between needs and wants when it comes to tech gear

(hence need being in "")

Joan Archer · 12 Apr 2010

I've just refreshed my score, I'll never get a good one because I don't have a dedicated graphics card, just the built in chip, and I'm not a gamer so having a low score there isn't something that worries me.

mbreslin · 13 Apr 2010

Finally installed my 980x, still have much to do so just threw it together quickly to make sure it wasn't doa. This is 980x stock+5870 stock, hd is a spare x25-v. This should be a good example for people wishing to go the ssd route, x25-v can be found for under 100$ and gets you instant 7.3. Nevermind the number though you actually notice the upgrade, ssds give a 'snappy' feeling that's pretty awesome.

Anyway if you saw my other score my only weekness was processor, a stock 980x gives you 7.8. True 7.9 will wind up much easier than I thought. Then I can stop messing with this silly thing. :)