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[Marinoprpic]

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]

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]

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

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

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

 

[KMoore4318]

I have a new WEI to share, Asus 900 Eee-PC Netbook. boy is windows 7 versatil, 1.0 on netbook and 7.7 on EVGA 760 classified.

 

[smarteyeball]

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 "")

I struggle to differentiate at times as well...

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.

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If it does what you need and you are happy with it, that's all that counts

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 weakness 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.

I'm sure you'll take your time though. Enjoy your new toy

 

[derekimo]

Graphics went up .1 with todays new driver, nothing noticable though.

 

[Seven Eleven]

this is what WEI looks like when on board HD 4200 is disabled and HD 5770 with 1GB is installed into PCI-E slot. very interesting memory score difference. disabled igp freed up 256MB. now it is full 4096MB.

i know hdd needs upgrade to ssd. well... maybe next year

 

[CarlTR6]

Nice improvement. I would be happy with your first score. LOL

 

[Paxnominus]

a little bit of concern

I don't know if this is the right spot for my post, so I'll apologize to the moderators in advance... Anyway, when I first installed my Windows 7 after upgrading it from Vista, my WEI was 3.4 (subscore was 3D and gaming graphics). I repair-installed my OS and after reassessing it, it went down to 3.0 (subscore of my processor), and now I've just installed a new driver for my vidcard, it went down again to 2.9 (still my processor's subscore).

My processor subscore used to be 4.5. Would anyone know why it's trending down? I don't feel/see any effects of the slope, but I'm just worried that it may have any issues in the future. And sometimes some of my games would react by saying that my computer might slow down because of incompatibility issues, but I know that's not the case.

BTW, my processor is Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo in a Toshiba laptop. If anyone can help me out to fix this it'd be awesome!

Thanks.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Paxnominus, welcome to Seven Forums!




Reset and re-run the WEI.


click this image to enlarge

 

[not so gray matter]

Can't remember if I've posted this or not...

WEI From a Macbook Pro Unibody 17" (Check System Specs for more details)



The only thing I can do to improve the score is more ram and an ssd. Though I'd have to purchase 2x 4GB sticks which would run $600 and atleast a 128GB SSD unless I purchased an 48GB ExpressCard SSD in additon to an 96GB regular. They haven't come out with Express Card video cards yet, but maybe just maybe they'll actually release an XG Station w/ a GTX 260.

 

[Paxnominus]

Hi BareFoot Kid,

Thanks for the prompt reply. I cannot find the Advanced Tools in my Performance and Information Tools, however, I've re-run the assessment multiple times already.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hi BareFoot Kid,

Thanks for the prompt reply. I cannot find the Advanced Tools in my Performance and Information Tools, however, I've re-run the assessment multiple times already.

Hello again.


Control Panel, Action Center, upper left pane View Performance Info, upper left pane Advanced Tools.