Show Us Your WEI

[ceejay]

Here's my WEI for an old (over 3 years old) Dell Dimension 9150:

Admittedly it's not the original hardware - the motherboard is fairly well maxed out with an upgraded Pentium D processor and 4GB RAM, and the GFX card is now an NVidia 8800GT rather than the original 6600.

Windows 7 is as smooth as silk, and I'm looking forward to a further extension in my desktops usable life as a result (it's running smoother than the original XP SP1 install now I think).

 

[sk8terdudest989]

I think mine is alright.

 

[KMoore4318]

everyone seems to top out at 6.0

My score is 6.0 as well, Dont think I've seen anyone above 6.0

 

[darkassain]

could somebody post their WEI file(.xml) so i could copy it to the DataStore folder...because my system crashes when it calculates the score.....my geforce 2 mx drivers supports windows xp only....that's why it crashes everytime..thanks

umm what you can do is
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Performance Information and Tools\Advanced Tools
go here and then go to
"Clear all WinEI scores and re-rate the system"
if that doesnt work then your system cant run the Wei

 

[Jason]

I'd post mine, but surely you all can picture a vivid "2.0".

WEI keeps rating my disk performance as 2.0, in Vista it's the highest (5.9, right?). My system scores maximum scores on Vista.. yet my system yields a 2.0 for disk performance on W7, I wonder why.

 

[Farrukh]

Here is mine .....

 

[stevecn70]

 

[jtoolman]

I'd post mine, but surely you all can picture a vivid "2.0".

WEI keeps rating my disk performance as 2.0, in Vista it's the highest (5.9, right?). My system scores maximum scores on Vista.. yet my system yields a 2.0 for disk performance on W7, I wonder why.

That's exactly my problem on both of my machines running 64 bit windows 7. The destop has Q9300 quad - 8 gig of ram to 500 gig sata drives and Nvidoa GEFORCE 9800 GT.
It used to run max numbers on Vista 64 bit and now the HD brings it all down to rating of 2.
I am hoping it's bug as the system is running lightning fast and absolutely faster and more stable than Vista ever did.
I don't see other people having this problem ecept a few of us. So I would like to know from those who have had their rating drop what the might think the reasons may be.

Thanks
JR

 

[Jason]

That's exactly my problem on both of my machines running 64 bit windows 7. The destop has Q9300 quad - 8 gig of ram to 500 gig sata drives and Nvidoa GEFORCE 9800 GT.
It used to run max numbers on Vista 64 bit and now the HD brings it all down to rating of 2.
I am hoping it's bug as the system is running lightning fast and absolutely faster and more stable than Vista ever did.
I don't see other people having this problem ecept a few of us. So I would like to know from those who have had their rating drop what the might think the reasons may be.

Thanks
JR

You're the first person I've met that has this issue too :shock:

I'm gonna go ahead and say it's a bug, because my disk drive functions fine under Linux and Vista. Also, my video card scores a lower score on W7 too -- a 5.3, compared to a 5.9 on Vista, I wonder why

 

[stevecn70]

You're the first person I've met that has this issue too :shock:

I'm gonna go ahead and say it's a bug, because my disk drive functions fine under Linux and Vista. Also, my video card scores a lower score on W7 too -- a 5.3, compared to a 5.9 on Vista, I wonder why

How is W7 Installed? Dual boot? Clean disk? new partition? etc.

 

[Jason]

How is W7 Installed? Dual boot? Clean disk? new partition? etc.

I'm dual booting W7 with Vista. I have a single disk, so they are both on it together (no RAID). The partition size is 200GB. Both operating systems are 64-bit

 

[jtoolman]

How is W7 Installed? Dual boot? Clean disk? new partition? etc.

Mine is a clean install on both my tower and laptop. Both of which suffer from the same much lower overall scores due to a much lower HD data transfer rate score.

As I said, I have not experienced slower performance than when they were running Vista or XP. In fact it is the best performance I've ever experienced on any of my machine.

 

[jfar]

There has been a few posts about this prob with hard drives, and some people seem to think that turning off disc write caching, and rerunning the test seems to give them a better score,try it and let us know.

 

[Jason]

Turning off disk write caching worked like a charm!

I wish it was higher though

jtoolman, try turning off the cache:

Right-click on Computer click Manage, go to device manager on the left, select your drive from "disk drives", right click, properties, then go to the policies tab

 

[jfar]

Turning off disk write caching worked like a charm!

I wish it was higher though

jtoolman, try turning off the cache:

Right-click on Computer click Manage, go to device manager on the left, select your drive from "disk drives", right click, properties, then go to the policies tab

Hi glad that helped, Now if I was you I would check around and see if you should be turning it back on or not, because I am not sure about the memory end of things.

 

[Jason]

Hey jfar,

I experimented a little. I turned caching back on, and also disabled the write cache buffer flushing (the option under write cache). This seemed to bring me to a score of 5.9 aswell

 

[jtoolman]

Worked like a charm!
These are my scores not from top to bottom

7.2
7.2
7.9
5.9
5.9

Now I'll have to check if the overall performance will improve even more.
Thanks a million guys. This forum has some pretty damn smart folks. Quite humbling!

JR

 

[Jason]

Worked like a charm!
These are my scores not from top to bottom

7.2
7.2
7.9
5.9
5.9

Now I'll have to check if the overall performance will improve even more.
Thanks a million guys. This forum has some pretty damn smart folks. Quite humbling!

JR

Try running it again, with the buffer flushing disabled. Maybe that'll increase the performance too

 

[jfar]

Worked like a charm!
These are my scores not from top to bottom

7.2
7.2
7.9
5.9
5.9

Now I'll have to check if the overall performance will improve even more.
Thanks a million guys. This forum has some pretty damn smart folks. Quite humbling!

JR

Thanks, its nice to be humbling,

 

[jtoolman]

The lap top also went way up on the Drive Transfer rate category!

Thanks

JR