WEI Visita vs Win 7

Curious as to why the major differences between WEI in Vista and Win 7 on the 7811 and if anyone else is seeing this. Vista on the right Win 7 on the left. I am using 2 identical seagate drives one with vista the other with win 7. Also using the BIOS boot option F10 to boot into either os.

 

Pretty funny. Maybe one of the drives is malfunctioning? Also, are both drives in there at the same time?
Oh yeah, What is this score even used for? I've never seen it referenced outside of WEI window.

 

Yeah pretty weird. Both drives are present in the machine, both are identical (200gb seagates). Have run diagnostics on both drives and everything comes back normal. I had intended to raid vista but the win 7 beta became available and decided to try it, so it was installed on the second drive.
The gpu score difference is odd also. Win 7 runs great though. Thinking maybe WEI still needs some tweaking in win 7.

 

What graphics card/driver/settings do you have? I only got a 5.9 in gaming graphics...

 

you just need to update the intel chipset/matrix storage manager to the current version.. no biggy.

 

AGlobal not sure what drivers I loaded, will have to get back with you on that. I want to say it was one of the Dox drivers.

E-Wrecked, thanks, will give that a try.

Time to hang it up for the night.

 

No that won't change the score.

Windows 7 grades the hard drive much harder, most HDs should decrease in score compared to Vista. It is normal, there is nothing wrong with your Hard Drives or drivers.

 

I dual boot Windows 7 and Vista with a raid 0 config on my P7805 and get a HD WEI of 5.9 on both. 2.9 seems pretty low. I only get 5.9 on my 3D graphics score though, but only using stock Nvidia drivers right now.

As far as what WEI is used for, I believe that it is used by Windows to determine what software can run on the pc/laptop at least that is what happened to me for Aero. When I uninstalled Nvidia drivers on Vista to install Dox drivers; after reboot Aero was turned off and I received a message that my WEI score wasn't high enough to run it. Has anyone else noticed this? If uninstalled the graphics drivers several times before settling on Dox 181.20 but I only received this message once, kind of weird.

 

Honestly the WEI of Windows 7 is definitely BETA. No one (and by no one I mean SLI GTX295s, 4870x2s etc) has managed over a 6.0 gaming graphics score that I've seen, and people with beastly raid arrays are getting unusually low HD scores as well. I wouldn't put a lot of stock in the WEI as long as the system is functioning normally and other benchmarks don't show problems.

 

I'm with E-wrecked on this one...

Are you using the most current Intel chipset and storage drivers? Without these, the other chipset dependent hardware won't work to it's fullest potential. Granted, I'm not familiar with Win7, but each version before it required the Intel basic chipset drivers to be installed when installing the OS from scratch. The HD system would work, but not to it's full potential.

Just my $0.02, YMMV

 

That won't change the score. I already had both installed.

I will be ghosting over to a SSD (probably tonight) and will post with results of the updated WEI score.

I still want to know how andy A got a 6.0 in gaming. Did you choose Performance for the Dox drivers? What version drivers & what gpu do you have?

 

I switched to a Patriot 32 GB SSD and my Hard Disk score has gone up to 6.3

Previous 320gb 7200rpm sata scored a 2.9

 

AGlobal, I was mistaken on the Dox drivers, I am using the 179.28 drivers. I do not recall setting anything special when I installed them just default.

Wow interesting the variance between the ssd drive and regular hd. Almost like WEI relies more on speed/transfer rates etc.. vs gb size.

I kind of think WEI in win 7 needs a few tweaks, but it is still a beta.


Have not got around to checking/updating the chipset/matrix drivers yet but will, I'm just a slow one

 

You're using the regular Nvidia Vista 179.28 drivers???

WEI does rely more on speed, it couldn't care less about capacity.

The chipset and matrix drivers will not change the score, I noticed no difference when I installed both.