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    Better performance with less memory?!?!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jhenson, Feb 17, 2009.

  1. jhenson

    jhenson Newbie

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    In my windows experience score, I had a 4.9 for memory processes. One stick of memory then went bad so now I am running just one of the two original sticks. I refreshed the score and it got a 5.1! Can someone please explain this to me. I have a t61p notebook
     
    jhenson, Feb 17, 2009
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  2. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Dont worry about the WEI. It is a terrible benchmarking utility.
    If you want to see the actual memory performance download SIS Sandra. You can run the memory bandwidth test and it will tell you exactly how fast your memory is running.
    You can run the test with your original memory, and the replacement memory and you can tell if their is a difference by comparing the numbers.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Feb 17, 2009
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  3. fluffboy

    fluffboy Notebook Evangelist

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    wei is garbage enough said. Use Sis sanda as k-tron said.
     
    fluffboy, Feb 17, 2009
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    Tolkannn Notebook Evangelist

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    WEI sucks duude you should use stuff like PCMark, 3DMark, HDTune..etc
     
    Tolkannn, Feb 17, 2009
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  5. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    As above, WEI is a random number generator.
     
    flipfire, Feb 17, 2009
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    scott.ager Notebook Evangelist

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    Less memory would seem to use less CPU housekeeping clock cycles doing all that bank switching and RAM refreshing at least on the surface to me...........
     
    scott.ager, Feb 18, 2009
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  7. Tippey764

    Tippey764 Notebook Deity

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    the WEI in windows 7 isnt that bad.
     
    Tippey764, Feb 18, 2009
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    MadBoris Notebook Consultant

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    But it will never be as good as third party tests, so what's the use in defending it really.

    Microsoft uses the minimalistic approach.
     
    MadBoris, Feb 18, 2009
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  9. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    Its not really a random number generator, and its a lot better at a basic benchmark than people give it credit for.

    I can probably explain the differences in score - which you, in fact, almost said yourself. You said one stick went faulty, which would likely mean that it was slightly faulty before. This slightly faulty stick could have been providing the system with enough errors that it continually needed to relocate those blocks of data that it had sent to be stored on the bad stick. This would lower the ram score because it would make storing and retrieving data from them slower than if you had just removed it. Ram is more so based on how fast over how much (after you have a certain amount.)
     
    nizzy1115, Feb 18, 2009
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  10. anothergeek

    anothergeek Equivocally Nerdy

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    WEI isn't a bad idea for the lesser computer minded though. Consumer gets number, consumer looks at software, does consumer meet the minimum? Ding! But for anyone who's made it this "far" (a computer site) it's probably useless for them :p
     
    anothergeek, Feb 18, 2009
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