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    I5-450m upgraded ram from 4gb to 8gb and my gf WEI is still higher?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by mjnoles1, Apr 2, 2012.

  1. mjnoles1

    mjnoles1 Notebook Consultant

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    I have a I5-450m which originally had 4gb 1066Mhz of ram. I just upgraded to 8gb 1066Mhz of ram. It increased my Memory (Ram) score on the Windows Experience Index from 5.9 (with 4gb of ram) to 6.8 (with 8gb of ram).

    I just looked at my gfs i3-2310m with ONLY 4gb of ram. Yes I know the 2011 processor has a faster ram speed of 1333mhz vs my 1066mhz. But, her Windows Experience Index is 7.5 with ONLY 4gb of ram.

    Even though she has a faster clock speed. I have double the ram. Shouldnt I have the better Windows Experience Index score?
     
    mjnoles1, Apr 2, 2012
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  2. s2odin

    s2odin Merrica!

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    WEI doesn't provide an accurate benchmark. It can help in diagnosing problems with your CPU or GPU but other than that, WEI is useless.
     
    s2odin, Apr 2, 2012
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  3. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    This, primarily.

    But I believe this is true too.
     
    Commander Wolf, Apr 2, 2012
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  4. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

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    WEI has some rather idiotic caps on certain components like HDDs, but yeah, the RAM score is based on speed afterwards. 16GB at 17418.44MB/s results in 7.6 WEI RAM score, while 16GB at 15256.39MB/s gives 7.5. Open the command prompt as an admin and type winsat query, you'll get nice numbers like the file Indrek pointed to, but in an easily readable format. The amount of installed RAM may ahve something to do with it as well, if i recall correctly, my G73 had 7.4 WEI when it was running on 8GB and it was running 1333MHz Kingston CL9 in 4x2GB just like it is running 1333MHz Kingston CL9 4x4GB. Unfortunately, i don't have any bandwidth data from the time it was running 8GB.

    EDIT: 4GB @ 5383.34MB/s gives a 6.0.
     
    tijo, Apr 2, 2012
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  5. Peon

    Peon Notebook Virtuoso

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    WEI is decent for determining the performance of your components relative to each other, but horrible if you want to measure against an absolute baseline.

    I've had situations where a VM had a higher WEI score on a certain component than the host did, which makes absolutely no sense.
     
    Peon, Apr 3, 2012
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