Show Us Your WEI

[Bare Foot Kid]

Here it is in 7201; geez, I need an SSD.




Later :shock: Ted

 

[bloke]

Here it is in 7201; geez, I need an SSD.

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Later :shock: Ted

one thing i cant understand is why they state total grfx mem is 4gb when you have a 1gb ATI, even if the grx mem is shared with system mem like in x32 it should still only be 2gb. hmmmmmmm. nice score for the 4870 tho. i wonder if i will get close as the 4870 and gx2 were released to battle each other out, then came along the 4870x2 and the gx2 didnt stand a chance.lol

as for ssd's i think most of us here need some. feel free for any donations, just pm me. lmao!

once i have my bandwidth back i will d/l the latest win7 and post up the nu results, i used the last few gb on d/ling 7127, then 2 days after i finished my bandwidth along comes 72xx. so i wont even bother with 7127 now.

 

[Funkyfresh]

I thought i share my wei, as i played around with drivers. I'm running 7201 x64 on a Macbook pro, 2.93 GHZ, 4Gb RAM..(and OCZ SSD Apex drive - they are amzingly different to even a fast SATA drive, in my exprience)


1/ With standard ms NVidia driver & display link USB software (top left)

2/ Now with no display link USB software, but 185.85 NVidia driver..big improvement (top right)

3/With 185 nvidia driver and display link usb..... (the USB display driver doesn’t impact performance) (bottom left)

4/And finally with write back enabled on hard drive...(another big jump!!) (bottom right)

so in essence the latest GPU drivers/enabling write caching boost perfomance a lot

 

[johnwillyums]

Welcome to the forums Funkyfresh.

That sounds like quite a machine.
Can you explain this "write back enabling" or is it Mac only?>

Best wishes, John

 

[KMoore4318]

I am sure my 2 295's would allow my total score to hit 7.4. The above score is with RC1

 

[Vipermk2]

My graphics card is letting mine down

 

[jfar]

Here it is in 7201; geez, I need an SSD.

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Later :shock: Ted

So do I, I think it is time for new graphics card aswell,

 

[Funkyfresh]

Hi John,

Thanks for the welcome, I'm looking fwd to posting some interesting snippets I have picked up along the way...

Anyway, my system is quite fast - for a laptop anyway, and i like to see how it can be tweaked within reason..

When i talk about write cache enabling, the Microsoft terminology is "turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing" –(select properties of your main hard drive in device manager, then policies)
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By ticking the box, you are effectively allowing Windows to hold data in a buffer before writing to disk. This is fine with either a battery backed up RAID controller, or on laptops that have batteries – as if there is a power failure, the data doesn’t get lost, it will get written to disk. On a laptop this is because Windows will continue to run without AC power (i.e. on its battery)

On RAID controllers with a battery backup (typically servers or high end workstations), they will flush their battery backed up RAM buffer to the hard drive when AC power is resumed – ie during the next start up..
[if you ever watch Dell servers boot after a power failure, after the RAID bios starts, there will be a message about it flushing its buffers ...]

Hope that makes sense?

Martin

 

[razy60]

Quick question about graphics.

My WEI shows a score of 3.6, this is due to the Desktop performance for aero, but the gaming score is 5.1.

Why such a difference?

Just curious really as i dont game and the desktop seems to be fine.

cheers

Raz

 

[grimreaper]

Here's my score...not bad...wish my hard drive(s) would have been a little better, and CPU ( I think it's time to OC this baby)

 

[digitalrurouni]

I am not in front of my machine right now but I have 7.4, 7.4 , 6,6, 6,6 and 5.9 IIRC. I am definitely disappointed especially with the video cards but I think it has more to do with the drivers than my hardware. I will post a screenshot as soon as the net at home gets sorted out. I am curious if other 285 gtx owners report a low score as well. I was expecting to get at least a 7.4 if not more.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Here it is in 7201; geez, I need an SSD.

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Cool, my little 4870 is stomping all over GTX 280/285s.













Later Ted

 

[adamsuail]

weird

just changed my processor bus speed and Aero score jumped 5 points to 5.6 !!
whats going on!!

 

[Spredas]

Emm.. I have Acer 7720G laptop, and Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5750 should take more points I think. Say if I am wrong :sarc:

 

[bloke]

I am not in front of my machine right now but I have 7.4, 7.4 , 6,6, 6,6 and 5.9 IIRC. I am definitely disappointed especially with the video cards but I think it has more to do with the drivers than my hardware. I will post a screenshot as soon as the net at home gets sorted out. I am curious if other 285 gtx owners report a low score as well. I was expecting to get at least a 7.4 if not more.

what version of windows 7 are you using? if you are using the rc1 build (7100) then you will have to install the newer 72xx build of win7. everyone's scores for grfx are rising on the newer build.

 

[steelbom]

I'm getting a GTX 285 1GB for Mac soon, I'll post how that goes, when will Microsoft release rc2? (I won't get it from a torrent)

My NVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB get's a 5.9 on both graphics, so I'm hoping for a 7.9

Kind Regards

 

[digitalrurouni]

what version of windows 7 are you using? if you are using the rc1 build (7100) then you will have to install the newer 72xx build of win7. everyone's scores for grfx are rising on the newer build.

Yeah I am running the RC. I was waiting to see what else gets leaked (7230) and then update.

It does not seem like having SLI is going to matter at all since Aero will only make one card do all the work hehe.

I am sure the scores are a bit meaningless but it is nice to have nice numbers and see what sort of an upgrade path I need to take. For example, I see I need to speed up my hard drives and get an SSD setup!

 

[steelbom]

SSD = Solid State Drive? or something else lol

 

[bloke]

SSD = Solid State Drive? or something else lol

correct. solid state storage, no moving parts. like a memory card in a playstation, but a much larger capacity.

 

[bloke]

I'm getting a GTX 285 1GB for Mac soon, I'll post how that goes, when will Microsoft release rc2? (I won't get it from a torrent)

My NVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB get's a 5.9 on both graphics, so I'm hoping for a 7.9

Kind Regards

7.9? bit greedy are we?