Show Us Your WEI (2)

mbreslin said:

Lastly, enter your system at http://www.weishare.net/!

Hey, I finally got around to visiting that site. I went ahead and uploaded my score and compared it to all the others.

Mine was the only one that only had one 7.8 (CPU), with all the other sub-scores 7.9. There were a few others with overall 7.8, but they not only had 7.8 in CPU, but also had 7.8s in either memory or graphics.

I figured there were a whole lot of systems like that... with all 7.9s except for the CPU score at 7.8. But it looks like mine is the only one like that at that site.

So considering that... I think I got the best WEI score! What do I win?

Here's a link to a screen shot with some other benchmarks from my system: http://home.comcast.net/~enegus/pwpi...dsktop2980.jpg

This machine was completely bogged down, running vista ultimate when I got it. Replaced the HDD and quadrupled the memory and now it even plays COD 4 MW at minimal graphics with no lag

@ErnieN: https://www.sevenforums.com/723410-post2985.html (this is an old post showing my 7.8 with all 7.9's except cpu) This is with a slighly overclocked 5870. When I moved to 5970+5870 graphics dropped to 7.8 though this is a limitation of wei.

Since your post a q9650 on ln2 has been added to wei share (overall 7.9) so I guess that's that. Extreme cooling is hard to beat. Great machine you have though.

mbreslin said:

@ErnieN: https://www.sevenforums.com/723410-post2985.html (this is an old post showing my 7.8 with all 7.9's except cpu) This is with a slighly overclocked 5870. When I moved to 5970+5870 graphics dropped to 7.8 though this is a limitation of wei.

Since your post a q9650 on ln2 has been added to wei share (overall 7.9) so I guess that's that. Extreme cooling is hard to beat. Great machine you have though.

Yeah, I saw the Q9650 score but dismissed it as either a fluke or a cheat. My friend Jerry, who is an Intel employee who works full time in the Microsoft lab in Bellevue told me that to get to 7.9 requires an eight core CPU... and even two quad core Xeons or NHM-DPs won't get there. It doesn't matter how overclocked it is.

There are exceptions though... for example you can get to 7.9 using a i7 core 920 if you run Winsat from a beta version (build 7077) of Windows 7. This doesn't work for i7 980X though (I tried it!). It doesn't work because the beta versions don't know about the 980X CPU and can't complete the assessment.

So I maintain that my score is the best legitimate score at that site...

Not too shabby for an OEM that was purchased on 4/24/2008. Taken today on 6/26/2010:

If you shrink your windows partition to about 100 GB, it would bring that HDD score up a tenth or 2