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    Laughable: Windows Experience Index

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by BMWBig6, Aug 11, 2011.

  1. BMWBig6

    BMWBig6 Notebook Guru

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    I applied Microsoft's 12 monthly updates this morning to Win7 on my Asus notebook (with Intel Core i3-370M 2.4 GHz Processor), re-ran my Windows Experience Index and my score for "Processor: Calculations per second" dropped from the mid 5's to 3.8. Rebooted a 2nd time and then it rose to 3.9. Exciting! :D
     
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  2. anseio

    anseio All ways are my ways.

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    Agreed. Mine ran a full core (14%) for a little while, as well. I doubt that my WEI has gone down as a result of the update, but am happy to compare when I get home and have my power plugged in.
     
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    Gracy123 Agrees to disagree

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    I didn't notice any additional load after updating. Didn't pay attention to be honest but obviously nothing to catch it either.

    But what I recently found out is that the memory score increases by upgrading from 4 to 6 GB RAM, but not any further when upgrading from 6 to 8 GB :)

    WEI is strange all the way, but we should not forget it is just a classification, not really benchmarking...
     
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  4. anseio

    anseio All ways are my ways.

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    Before I updated to 8GB, my Windows 7 x64 RAM subscore was 7.4
     
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    Well, just ran the sucker again and nothing changed.

    In any case, i don't find WEI to be accurate, not bad as a baseline but still inaccurate given the way it is presented.
     
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    anseio All ways are my ways.

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  7. anseio

    anseio All ways are my ways.

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    Shall I change back to 4GB, run the test and confirm?

    7.4 is the score I got when running WEI just before I swapped to 8GB.
    It's DDR3 1333 10600. That was the OEM RAM.
     
    anseio, Aug 12, 2011
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    Zapperpower Notebook Evangelist

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    On my desktop, with 4 GB of DDR2 I got 7.1.
    7.4 with 6GB
    on my acer, 4GB DDR3 and 5.9
     
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  10. tijo

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    I'll check on my N50 when i get back home from university, but i'm pretty sure the WEI is at 6.0 for DDR2-800 RAM. Do you guys think it might have to do with dual channel configs vs single channel.

    I read the thread about WinSAT before and eyah there's a lot of info to be had if you look deep enough. The WEI scale is in need of a refresh though, a GTX570 (desktop) gives 7.9 while there is more powerful hardware available.
     
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    yep, FWIW on my desktop W7SP1 x64 I just checked and it's 7.9. 4GB DDR3 2133MHz CAS7.
     
    Dufus, Aug 12, 2011
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    slowdive Notebook Consultant

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    Guess it's not that well documented. :)
    Using Windows 7 Home Edition x64 + 4GB Ram i have 7.2.
     
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  13. coolguy

    coolguy Notebook Prophet

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    I get only 4.9 with Win 7 64-bit and 4 GB DDR2-667 RAM.
     
    coolguy, Aug 12, 2011
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