Show Us Your WEI (2)

[CDM1080]

My WEI for my SSD has improved? It started out at a very respectable 7.6 then it dropped down to 7.4 after loading all my applications and updates but just rerunning my score two months later and it has improved to 7.7 !

7.1
7.3
7.2
7.2
7.7

Sweet !

That's just 1 64 gb Crucial Real C300 SSD drive sata III
Agreed that's a very nice score

 

[djmorgan]

I don't know why the CPU is reported so low

 

[Dave76]

That should be higher, have you changed any settings?

 

[djmorgan]

That should be higher, have you changed any settings?

Nope! and it is reported high in Everest benchmarks, I am running dual monitors and did not stop any services or background sources before I ran the test, I'm not really fussed about it as I don't think it has much relevance to the real world.

UPDATE: I don't know how windows does it's measurements, but just to put my mind at ease I have run 3 different CPU benchmarks, PassMark, CPU Speed and Cinebench, in all cases the i7 950 was up there with it's peers and overall system is very high due to the Corsair memory I run.

David

 

[Dave76]

As long as it's running well and the other benchmarks are in the correct range, I wouldn't worry about it.

WEI seems to give low scores sometimes for no apparent reason.
It's not the most accurate benchmark by any stretch of the imagination.

Enjoy your system, nice rig

 

[LiquidSnak]

Good lord. In the thumbnail of your scores, I could have sworn it said 32 GB of RAM.

 

[djmorgan]

Good lord. In the thumbnail of your scores, I could have sworn it said 32 GB of RAM.

Even 12 Gb is over kill but with these new boards and tri channel memory you have to go up in quantities of 3 or it falls back to dual channel. I started at 6 Gb and found at times I got memory warnings, these were 3 x 2GB and putting in 3 x 1 Gb would have spoilt the equation so went for another 3 x 2 Gb.

So far I have not seen mem usage above 5 Gb! nor any further warnings! I don't run a swap file because I have an SSD as my primary OS.

David

 

[tw33k]

My WEI...



What do you think? 7.4?

 

[linnemeyerhere]

A for distance !

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Ya once you go SSD theres no going back, I wish that I could have afforded a 256gb but people in Hell want ice water and there was just no way to write that check. But when the 64gb went on sale I was all over it. With luck in a year or more the larger drives will be replaced with even larger and they'll fall in price and I'll move the 64 to my laptop. I'm just amazed with it's WEI performance increase.....cool

 

[djmorgan]

Ya once you go SSD theres no going back, I wish that I could have afforded a 256gb but people in Hell want ice water and there was just no way to write that check. But when the 64gb went on sale I was all over it. With luck in a year or more the larger drives will be replaced with even larger and they'll fall in price and I'll move the 64 to my laptop. I'm just amazed with it's WEI performance increase.....cool

This is just my view and what I have read, an SSD is better used for just your OS, let other programs reside on secondary fast HDDs' too much writing to a SSD can with time affect it's performance plus drives that are higher than 80% filled can also suffer performance issues.

Things like TRIM are critical to keep them running fast, and the newer version IIIs' will be even faster.

David

 

[linnemeyerhere]

djmorgan,
While I still have 17+gb free out of 59gb usable it's like anything I wonder at what point with more apps and their updates and such will I get less performance from restrictive space available. Your 100 percent correct on the OS but it's still sweet to have your intensive apps there too.

 

[Dave76]

Ya once you go SSD theres no going back, I wish that I could have afforded a 256gb but people in Hell want ice water and there was just no way to write that check. But when the 64gb went on sale I was all over it. With luck in a year or more the larger drives will be replaced with even larger and they'll fall in price and I'll move the 64 to my laptop. I'm just amazed with it's WEI performance increase.....cool

Great plan, I'm doing the same.

My laptop is begging for the old SSD now, hope the 25nm Gen3s come out soon.
Don't know how long I can hold out

Have been checking the SSD prices biweekly and they have been declining recently, hope this means the 25nm are getting closer.

 

[LiquidSnak]

If they drop significantly more, I'll have to get one. The only thing holding me back is $/GB.

 

[linnemeyerhere]

I can say with 100% satisfaction that the 64gb is more than enough and an excellent starting point. Like I've said once you pull that trigger you won't look back !

 

[madtownidiot]

new workstation:
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[linnemeyerhere]

madtownidiot,
Fantastic scores. That's a flying system !

 

[madtownidiot]

madtownidiot,
Fantastic scores. That's a flying system !

Ought to be. it's got 2 of those xeons in it and 4HDDs in RAID 0. the memory alone cost more than most of the machines that people here use, but it should pay for itself in saved time within a year or so though. Instead of taking a 20 minutes to create a new ISO for a custom install, it takes 2 minutes. As soon as I learn how to do it, I'm was thinking of offering remote management for my more pebkac prone customers who bought laptops with TPMs from me.. they bring in their computer, I hook it up to the network, and a half hour later they walk out with their system in the same state it was the day they bought it except for updates, or if their internet connection is fast enough, I figure I ought to be able to do the same thing without them having to leave home.

 

[noobvious]

new workstation:
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Holy that might be the baddestsystem I've ever seen...

 

[CDM1080]

new workstation:
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:drool:Wow madtownidiot that is stuff
That's the Biggest n Meanest Machine i have seen thus far

Congrats on the build