Show Us Your WEI

[Dave76]

Actually the hdd subtest is the only part of wei that IS worth anything imho.
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SSD is still the biggest "actually feel it" performance boost to your computer, watch newegg for x25-v to dip below 100$ and get one (or 2!).

I really can't complain but the current HDD is pulling my score down and I honestly do not have much faith in Microsoft's assessment of systems.

... I don't take their WEI rating system too seriously either, but like anything in computers, if it gives a number, people want that number to be higher, so it creates competition and boosts hardware sales... It's just another one of the contributing factors to helping computer technology move along.
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... I do agree with you on they play the game to boost sales and people do like the NUMBERS.
For the rest of us, if your computer does what you want and whenever you want it to then be happy. If you wish to race and get the newest toys then do so, what ever makes you happy! I just wish there was some true and blue HDD or SSD that would fill the numbers game.

Agree, it's not a real benchmark.
WEI came out after Vista did, to help people check if Vista could run effectively on their current hardware, which was a major issue at the time.

The WEI was introduced in Windows Vista to provide one means across PCs to measure the relative performance of key hardware components. Like any index or benchmark, it is best used as a relative measure and should not be used to compare one measure to another. Unlike many other measures, the WEI merely measures the relative capability of components. The WEI only runs for a short time and does not measure the interactions of components under a software load, but rather characteristics or your hardware. As such it does not (nor cannot) measure how a system will perform under the your own usage scenarios. Thus the WEI does not measure performance of a system, but merely the relative hardware capabilities when running Windows 7.

More from... Engineering Windows 7

Sorry,

Forgot to post my updated WEI score from the old WEI score for the new system. Same old bottleneck.

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Nice scores

There are a lot of us waiting for the SSDs to improve and the prices to drop.
As mentioned above, you can find ~40GB SSDs for sub $100, getting into the possibly acceptable range (for me anyway), should be enough space for a boot drive. You can always load some of your programs on the old spinner.

Let's see what the $/GB is after the 25nm flash comes out later this year.

Have read the X25-V will get you a 7.4 - 7.6, and two in RAID 0 will get you 7.9
That is if your looking at the WEI score.

As mbreslin said, this upgrade is one you can actually feel.

Still waiting for that feeling, hopefully not for long

 

[Techymike]

Has anyone run the older IDE drives to see what score they get?

 

[Snakeyeskm]

Here's mine

 

[Dave76]

Welcome to Seven Forums Snakeyeskm,

Nice rig and really nice scores.

 

[Snakeyeskm]

Thanks for the welcome Dave76. As a newbie to Win 7 I am really learning from this forum.

 

[celldweller1591]

My Pc is not much powerful though . Heres my WEI :-

 

[weebz]

Well here's mine.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello weebz, welcome to Seven Forums!

 

[derekimo]

Fresh Install.

 

[baarod]

Latest bump. Same low profile Antec case, mobo, CPU, RAM, etc. I just Arctic Silvered the GPU and VRAM to the stock heatsink and bumped both clocks up by 100MHz. This rig has not been fully rebuilt in years as I love to squeeze every last iota of performance out of mostly sub $100 components and stuff from the previous machine that still works. I'd really love to see a "bang for the buck" comparison here. Who gets the highest scores with the cheapest hardware. That's my bag really. I mean, any schmoe can buy a video card that gets upper 7's or the latest i7 or an Intel SSD and buy their way into the big boys club but that really defeats the purpose if money is no object. Why not just go buy the top of the line Alienware box and post your WEI? My money goes to Joe Six-pack who's got a rig he's been running with for some time that doubles as the family computer too.

 

[ZaLiTH]

I am no fan of MS! LMAO...

Sorry for the late reply; I don't have internet access at home, only at work.. I was saying that very jokingly; I still say the only reason I haven't move over to Linux permanently is because I can't run my games on anything other than Windows and that my program licenses are for the Windows versions..

 

[xXSevenXx]

After a couple of upgrades

 

[cabal06ba]

I would use Microsoft's driver. AMD has some pretty bad AHCI/RAID drivers last I heard

Sorry for being a couple of thread-pages behind, are we talking about this driver shown below and can I just update it like any other regular driver or will I have boot issues when updating in Win7 running?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello cabal06ba.



Maybe the tutorial at the link below will be some help; be sure to keep us informed.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/61869-ahci-enable-windows-7-vista.html?ltr=A

 

[cabal06ba]

Thanks for the Link, I know that procedure but in my case AHCI has been enabled already every since I installed the OS so just wanna know if I can simply roll back to Microsoft drivers without any problems.

But before I do that, can anyone confirm that AMD is still having problems with their AHCI drivers or has there been any improvement in recent times?

And just out of interest: How comes Microsoft has decent drivers available for AMD AHCI chipsets and where do these come from if not from AMD themselves?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Thanks for the Link, I know that procedure but in my case AHCI has been enabled already every since I installed the OS so just wanna know if I can simply roll back to Microsoft drivers without any problems.

But before I do that, can anyone confirm that AMD is still having problems with their AHCI drivers or has there been any improvement in recent times?

And just out of interest: How comes Microsoft has decent drivers available for AMD AHCI chipsets and where do these come from if not from AMD themselves?

Hello again.


This tutorial at the link below may also be a help to you so you can see the old drivers in Device Manager.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/77614-device-manager-hidden-devices.html?ltr=D

 

[si8mon]

AHHH I reset my http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/79177-windows-experience-index-reset.html.
When i reran the tests I got a lower score and haven't changed any piece of hardware in my computer.

This is my old one http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/342-show-us-your-wei-280.html

Here is my new one.



I no its only a 0.1 change but i liked it beter when it was higher.

 

[tw33k]

AHHH I reset my http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/79177-windows-experience-index-reset.html.
When i reran the tests I got a lower score and haven't changed any piece of hardware in my computer.

This is my old one http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/342-show-us-your-wei-280.html

Here is my new one.



I no its only a 0.1 change but i liked it beter when it was higher.

The WEI means nothing. As long as the PC performs the way you need it to that's what really matters. My notebook is like 2.0 or something low but it runs really well. WEI SHMEI!

 

[si8mon]

The WEI means nothing. As long as the PC performs the way you need it to that's what really matters. My notebook is like 2.0 or something low but it runs really well. WEI SHMEI!

Yeah my pc is running beater then ever regardless of the stuffed up wei score but i was just wondering why it got lower.:huh:

But i probably was way overreacting.

 

[ZaLiTH]

The WEI means nothing. As long as the PC performs the way you need it to that's what really matters. My notebook is like 2.0 or something low but it runs really well. WEI SHMEI!

Yeah my pc is running beater then ever regardless of the stuffed up wei score but i was just wondering why go it lower.:huh:

But i probably was way overreacting.

I've never had any benchmark software give me the exact same score every time I ran it on my PC... The WEI score seems to stay the same for the most part because it doesn't give exact values. For example: RAM is calculated in MB/s and can be as high as 30 000 mb/s with extreme OC, and is then assigned a 'score' that goes no higher than 7.9.

So, perhaps whichever component was 0.1 points higher was near the bottom of the range that gave it x.1, and due to minor variations in the tests, it was recorded near the top of the x.0 range, but not enough to give that extra 0.1.

And that got way more technical than I thought it would... lol.