Show Us Your WEI (2)

[ColdIce]

I can't see it! I was always at 7.3 and now it says that a new hardware is installed and I need to re run the thingy, and when I do, and it finish, nothing comes up and I have to run it again! And again and again and nothing happens :s Help!

 

[kucing13]

i need more money to increase my WEI. Guess that's gonna wait

 

[Dave76]

Now all i need is a decent SSD
Don't ready now which one to get ! Vertex 2...intel mX25 G2...Crucial c300, or other!

Nice rig

So many choices now.

Can't go wrong with Intel, seems that the WEI and benchmark scores posted on various sites are good.
Both the others you listed are very good as well.

For a good review of benchmarks AnandTech is well respected.

If you check on his SSD forum, he has reviews for the three you mentioned and many more.

Check his site for a nice benchmark comparison tool.

AnandTech SSD Bench

Whichever one you get, you'll be glad you did

 

[adamsuail]

Whichever one you get, you'll be glad you did

Thanks Dave, your rig is also EXECELLENT...i5, usb3.0 & Sata 6 gbit/s..thats amazing, sounds like less than 3 months old...i'm jealous

 

[fastslvblkcar]

new ssd

new vertex ssd

 

[Dave76]

Thanks adamsuail, I've had it for two months now, and am enjoying it immensely

SSD selection is still a bit tricky, I've seen personal WEI and benchmark scores for the Intel SSDs that are very high in comparison to other brands. Yet, many websites rate other brands higher. I think the AnandTech Storage Bench - Light Workload is close to real world usage. The latest versions from OCZ and Crucial are scoring quite high.

Will be watching the SSD reviews and personal scores for the next several months, hope to find something (non-RAID) that passes the 3GB/s 300 MB/s mark by then.

 

[mbreslin]

I think I read that wrong dave did you mean 3 gigabyte/sec for a single drive? Not only is that not going to happen in the next several months that's likely a couple years away. Intel refresh is coming in the next few months and that's just an increase of capacity for g2 drives. Gen3 isn't until next year and those drives are likely 500+mb/sec read/write if we're lucky. Not only is 3GB/s only remotely possible via raid it's relegated to uber raid, somewhere around 12-16 drives.

 

[ZaLiTH]

I can't see it! I was always at 7.3 and now it says that a new hardware is installed and I need to re run the thingy, and when I do, and it finish, nothing comes up and I have to run it again! And again and again and nothing happens :s Help!

I had that as well a while back, it's a stupidly irritating issue.. Open "C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore\" and delete all the xml files. Those are the files that store the scores from every WEI test done, sometimes the folder gets too full and causes issues with running the WEI.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

I can't see it! I was always at 7.3 and now it says that a new hardware is installed and I need to re run the thingy, and when I do, and it finish, nothing comes up and I have to run it again! And again and again and nothing happens :s Help!

I had that as well a while back, it's a stupidly irritating issue.. Open "C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore\" and delete all the xml files. Those are the files that store the scores from every WEI test done, sometimes the folder gets too full and causes issues with running the WEI.

Thanks mate, bookmarked.

 

[ZaLiTH]

I can't see it! I was always at 7.3 and now it says that a new hardware is installed and I need to re run the thingy, and when I do, and it finish, nothing comes up and I have to run it again! And again and again and nothing happens :s Help!

I had that as well a while back, it's a stupidly irritating issue.. Open "C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore\" and delete all the xml files. Those are the files that store the scores from every WEI test done, sometimes the folder gets too full and causes issues with running the WEI.

Thanks mate, bookmarked.

No problem, it took me quite a while (about a week) to figure out exactly why my WEI test was behaving like that.. Lol. Hopefully it saves some other people the headache of finding a solution. :huh:

 

[ColdIce]

I can't see it! I was always at 7.3 and now it says that a new hardware is installed and I need to re run the thingy, and when I do, and it finish, nothing comes up and I have to run it again! And again and again and nothing happens :s Help!

I had that as well a while back, it's a stupidly irritating issue.. Open "C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore\" and delete all the xml files. Those are the files that store the scores from every WEI test done, sometimes the folder gets too full and causes issues with running the WEI.

YAY It worked Thanks man

 

[Dave76]

I think I read that wrong dave did you mean 3 gigabyte/sec for a single drive? Not only is that not going to happen in the next several months that's likely a couple years away. Intel refresh is coming in the next few months and that's just an increase of capacity for g2 drives. Gen3 isn't until next year and those drives are likely 500+mb/sec read/write if we're lucky. Not only is 3GB/s only remotely possible via raid it's relegated to uber raid, somewhere around 12-16 drives.

It was really late last night/this morning when I wrote that.

You didn't read it wrong, I wrote it wrong.

Meant to say past the 300 MB/s mark.
Which I hope will become more common by end of summer and the price relaxed by the end of the year.

Have you seen anything on the Intel Gen3? Haven't came across any info or speculation.


ZaLiTH,

Nice info on the WEI failure, good work

 

[xXSevenXx]

For the record.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

For the record.

Looks good!

 

[adamsuail]

For the record.

Thats a cool rig
but your Radeon HD 5870 should score higher..i think

 

[mbreslin]

5870 is either 7.7 or 7.8 depending on the latest catalyst. Flips back and forth with each new version.

Also, since it's right on the bubble the smallest overclock will give 7.8.

 

[kucing13]

mine..

 

[xXSevenXx]

For the record.

Looks good!

Thanks

For the record.

Thats a cool rig
but your Radeon HD 5870 should score higher..i think

Okay.

5870 is either 7.7 or 7.8 depending on the latest catalyst. Flips back and forth with each new version.

Also, since it's right on the bubble the smallest overclock will give 7.8.

Those figure are for "straight out of the box", as I only finished building it last night, sorry this morning.

 

[Dave76]

Congrats, that's a very nice rig

Great numbers, out of the box or not.

After you get everything running smoothly, you can get info and help with the fine tuning, if you desire

Check the RAM speed in your BIOS, MOBO default may have you running a bit under the manufacturers designed rate.

 

[xXSevenXx]

Congrats, that's a very nice rig

Great numbers, out of the box or not.

After you get everything running smoothly, you can get info and help with the fine tuning, if you desire

Check the RAM speed in your BIOS, MOBO default may have you running a bit under the manufacturers designed rate.

I actually just did that, it's 9-9-9-24, but, I couldn't find where to adjust the volts.