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    L501x vs L502x WEI scores: surprisingly close?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by crystallakegary, Apr 6, 2011.

  1. crystallakegary

    crystallakegary Notebook Consultant

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    Shouldn't the L502x scores be considerably higher?
    The NV 540 score is essentially the same as the NV435 score.


    WEI.........................L502x.......L501x
    Processor....................7.5.........7.1
    RAM...........................7.5.........7.4
    Graphics - Win Aero......6.7.........6.6
    Graphics - 3D, gaming...6.7.........6.6
    HDD...........................7.8.........7.4

    ...............................L502x......L501x
    .............................i7-2820......i7-740
    .........................8gb Crucial.....8gb - factory installed
    .........................OCZ Vertex 3..Sam PM810 256gb SSD - factory
    ..............................GT540......GT435



     
    crystallakegary, Apr 6, 2011
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  2. DakkonA

    DakkonA Notebook Evangelist

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    Essentially: No. WEI isn't intended to be an absolute measure of system performance, just an overall guide. Benchmarking tells you absolute differences on a more or less linear scale.
     
    DakkonA, Apr 6, 2011
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    smokingkid Notebook Guru

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    WEI is worth almost nothing, I still can't believe people are actually still looking at it.
     
    smokingkid, Apr 6, 2011
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  4. NoSlow5oh

    NoSlow5oh Notebook Evangelist

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    I'd like to see you write a program with the functionality of WEI.
     
    NoSlow5oh, Apr 6, 2011
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    Jukkie Notebook Enthusiast

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    Why would he need to? Seeing as there are plenty of benchmarking suites much more accurate than WEI (which I agree, is pretty useless).
    If anyone was to use WEI as their basis for a purchase, I'd have to say they were crazy...

    I built a system last year, on which I overclocked the CPU, memory and GPU by huge amounts. Running WEI before and after the overclocks showed a difference of 0.1 on all three (CPU alone was OC'ed from 2.66Ghz to 4.25Ghz, which is obviously more than a 0.1 increase [WEI went from 7.6 to 7.7]).
     
    Jukkie, Apr 6, 2011
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  6. Sgraffite

    Sgraffite Notebook Guru

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    WEI does scoring logarithmically to some extent to lengthen the lifetime usefulness of it. That means you'd need a huge performance difference to show large score difference.
     
    Sgraffite, Apr 6, 2011
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  7. NoSlow5oh

    NoSlow5oh Notebook Evangelist

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    I build my own too. i7 920 @ 4.2GHz, Mushkin Redline @ 2000MHz, and (2) severely oc'd 4870's in crossfire. My WEI maxed out on all of these three scores. Even though I was running 2 WD Blue 7200RPM HDD's in Raid 0, I still only saw 5.9 in disk rate.

    This new laptop stock showed 5.9 for disk rate, once I upgraded to the C400, my score went to 7.9.

    I'll admit it's not the best by any means, but it is not useless either. It has to constantly evolve to new technology. Your oc'd cpu is no where near the fastest anymore, hence why you may not have gained much.
     
    NoSlow5oh, Apr 7, 2011
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  8. ZippoMan

    ZippoMan Notebook Evangelist

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    WEI doesnt mean much...
     
    ZippoMan, Apr 7, 2011
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  9. Rick 64D

    Rick 64D Notebook Consultant

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    Crystallakegary, where did you get your Vertex 3? (OhTee but Oh Well)
     
    Rick 64D, Apr 7, 2011
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    NewEgg started selling the 120GB version the other day. I'm waiting for a 250GB Vertex 3 or Crucial m4.
     
    ZippoMan, Apr 7, 2011
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    tejagamer Notebook Geek

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    How to force WEI to use nVidia Chipset?
    I have GT420M and got 4.5 for graphics....
     
    tejagamer, Apr 7, 2011
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    smokingkid Notebook Guru

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    Again, why should I? a lot of companies already did that, and their benchmark are much more reliable than the WEI poor algorithm.

    WEI was created only for newbies and beginners, not for comparison charts.
     
    smokingkid, Apr 7, 2011
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  13. NoSlow5oh

    NoSlow5oh Notebook Evangelist

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    I never said it was better than any other benchmark. In fact it's one of the worst for any specific test.

    For you to say it's worthless, is wrong. If you knew anything about computer science and programming, you'd appreciate the time spent developing the program. But you don't, so hate away.
     
    NoSlow5oh, Apr 7, 2011
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  14. crystallakegary

    crystallakegary Notebook Consultant

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    I don't. borse2008 has one.


     
    crystallakegary, Apr 7, 2011
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    How do you get scores of 6.6 and 6.7 for windows aero? I have a L502x with 2630QM and GT 540M but i only get 4.8 for my aero score. Ive tried setting the 540M as the default but it still scores 4.8. Help??
     
    jaisah, Apr 10, 2011
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  16. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    No personal attacks. Consider this a warning.

    WEI is NOT a benchmark, so dont use it to compare. Its just a tool to gauge how well Windows will run on your machine. It tests parameters that Windows will use.
     
    flipfire, Apr 10, 2011
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  17. Salman32000

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    Hey there,
    I have a similar scenario. Upgraded my nVidia driver. Score reduced from 5.8 (Which I found was too low for the Dell XPS 15's performance) to 4.9

    WEI doesn't really matter to me, the laptop is a beast. But it's just a very very annoying itch that I want to get rid of.

    Any pointers?
     
    Salman32000, Nov 22, 2011
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