169 Nvidia Driver Install- Windows Experience Score Drops?

Hi All,

Thanks for the help with my 101 level questions.

I just installed the 169.09 b/c it seemed people had the most experience with this edition on the x205-sli1.

All went well and did not really have any problems that I am aware of. I rebooted, enable SLI, changed single gpu mode to force alt frame..., rebooted again and ran the Windows experience benchmark and both of my graphics scores dropped!! I went from (from what I remember) 5.5/5 and 5.9 for the gaming graphics and windows aero score down to 4.2 and 5.4!

Also, as for process I uninstalled the toshiba driver, rand driver sweeper and updated driver from disk like you guys suggested. I may download a benchmark and see what I get aside from Windows rating.

Any suggestions? Let me know if you need more info.

 

dont worry,WEI is meaning less

 

cool. just for piece of mind I am downloading 3DMark to benchmark. I should have done a baseline but you guys probably have one I could reference to make sure 169.09 is delivering.

As an aside, I wonder if the whole WEI is a marketing tool as much as a diagnostic tool. Specifically, Toshiba releases their driver to perform well on this benchmark as priority to help with laptop sales vs. focusing on absolute performance and NOT WEI. If I was running Toshiba's marketing department I sure would be using WEI as a way to bump sales vs. other vendors...kind of like 0-60 performance numbers auto makers use in magazine advetisements.

 

Another wierd update- I went back and set the SLI configuration to single gpu (sli still enabled) vs split frame rendering and the score went back up to normal? I thought split frame rendering was the way to go? Which setting do you all use?

 

Okay must be maybe I was mistaken about the best SLI settings.

(SLi Enable - Single GPU mode) Windows gave a 5.5/5.9 for aero/gaming graphics = 7258 Benchmark

(SLi Enable - Force Alt Frame) Windows gave a 4.2/5.5 for aero/gaming graphics = 7236 Benchmark

Is this consistent with everyone elses results? Any suggestions on SLI/graphics settings that will optimize settings?

 

Ummm... I started out with a gaming WEI of 5.4 with stock drivers when I first got my sli1, that bumped up to 5.5 with the 169.09 drivers, then it increased when I defragged and went to 5.8 the first time I overclocked the GPU. For this topic I tested it at stock clocks and it was still 5.8. Then with a overclock of 650/1300/849 and it was still 5.8

The WEI is not the best measure of performance.

 

So I guess 5.9 without overclocking is pretty good - albeit for a meaningless value

I tried Ntune and with a very -very mild overclock on the GPU (800/600) and got over 8,000 on 3DMark06. I turned it back to stock b/c I believe a processor swap might be the next upgrade for this rig. Now to figure out which chip is best. I wish the quad cores or Extreme editions fit!

Cheers