New system complete maximum windows experience index fail

[Brittas]

I have just finished building my new system. I thought I may have a chance at reaching WEI 7.9.

Spec is..
[FONT=&quot]Antec 1200 case. MSI Z68A-GD80-G3 board . i7 -2700K @4.1 GHZ. GTX 580 OC twin FrozR II 1536 Mb Graphics.Corsair Vengeance 16 GB PC3-12800C9 1600MHz RAM. Cooler Master Hyper 212+ CPU cooler. Crucial SSD M4 128 GB SATA 6Gb/s main Hard drive.Crucial SSD M4 128GB hard drive. 500 GB HDD. Crucial SSD M4 60GB.1200W PSU.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]ASUS Xonar D2X sound card.

Runs good though.


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[badger906]

That's odd! I get 7.9 across the board with my current setup. Admitedly I have my ram running at 2133mhz.

Your 580gtx is more powerful than my 6950 and mine scores 7.9 lol

 

[smarteyeball]

GPU and M4 should be 7.9 :huh:

Are the drives set as AHCI/RAID or IDE? Is your OS drive on the Sata III port?

CPU is normal, so too is the Ram.

 

[Brittas]

All sata drives are in IDE mode. OS is in SATA 1 which is the 6Gbs sata connection. My step son has identical GPU it scores a 7.9

 

[Brittas]

I have manged to get the SSD's in to ACHI. 7.9 score now on the hard drive. AS SSD hard drive bench mark score was 710.

 

[DeaconFrost]

You are new, so you probably haven't seen the countless threads, but you are really only wasting your time by worry about what WEI says. Besides...why stop at 7.9???

 

[Brittas]

no benchmarks are the way to gauge your system. 7.9 is just a bonus on top of good benchmarks results.

 

[smarteyeball]

I have manged to get the SSD's in to ACHI. 7.9 score now on the hard drive.

IDE+WEI has been a common bafflement regarding scores. Good to hear that's now sorted.

That leaves the GPU - are the drivers updated? Preferably from nvidias site.

 

[Brittas]

Yes I have even tried the newest beta drivers.The 7.8 score on the card was with mem clocked to 870 Mhz if I remember correctly.

 

[smarteyeball]

Hmm. My 580 and same drivers at it's 772mhz stock it nets a 7.9


If it's a new build, have you got all the chipset drivers etc installed? No yellow triangles beside any devices in device manager?

Also, do you have the iGPU enabled at all? Installed the Virtu software?

Double check that it's actually using the 580 and not the iGPU (virtu-i mode) when running the test.

ie:

 

[Brittas]

All drivers latest drivers are installed..Not sure about this igpu or where it is lol..I will look into this.Is the virtu software part of the nvidia dowload?

 

[smarteyeball]

No, it's normally on the mobo CD or obtained from the manufacturers site.

The iGPU is actually an intel HD3000 integrated into the CPU (hence, iGPU). I haven't played with enough (ie at all yet) to explain it adequately, so:

While the Z68 Express chipset enables the simultaneous use of both the integrated GPU (iGPU) of Sandy Bridge processors as well as a separate graphics card or cards, all you can do with this capability is run multiple monitors; Virtu gives you more options. Specifically, Virtu supports two different modes:

• Virtu i-Mode allows seamless switching between integrated Intel HD graphics and a separate graphics card, resulting in significant power savings when the power of the graphics card isn't required. In this mode the monitor is plugged into one of the motherboard's video ports.
• Virtu d-Mode enables the use of a separate graphics card while allowing the use of Intel's "Quick Sync" video transcoding technology, which runs on the iGPU. In this mode the monitor must be plugged into the graphics card.

...cont

Even if it turns out to have nothing to do with the WEI, at least you discovered a new toy

 

[AwsedreswA]

Couldn't hit 7.9 with Sandy Bridge

i7-2700K @ 5.2Ghz ~1.5V = 7.8 WEI
2x4GB RAM, off timings for the moment, at 1866Mhz CL-11 = 7.9 WEI
GTX 470 = 7.8/7.8 WEI (no change with adding virtu)
RAID0 2x OCZ Vertex 3 120GB in SATA6Gb/s slots = 7.9 WEI

Do legit WEI #'s matter, no ofcourse not, neither do the numbers on the dyno when test your car's power.