WEI says memory the bottleneck?

I was thinking should upgrade my CPU, WEI reports memory as the weakest component. Still going to upgrade my CPU first, 8gb kit 1066 pc3 8500 is around $700. Can get a QX9300 for $502.

 

I think you already have a smoking fast machine. Unless you have applications that use it, you’ll likely see little to no performance boost from another 4GB RAM.

 

WEI is useless; it reports different scores across identical components. At present, the P8400 is more than sufficient for gaming unless you require something far more robust for other purposes (ex, virtualization, multimedia editing, etc).

 

Why do people even care about WEI?

 

Vanity.


10char

 

Trying to boost my flagging epeen eh? Should I go to NBR purgatory or straight to hell?

 

Looking at your score and comparing it to mine, it shows clearly that WEI is useless.

1. My CPU is supposed to be faster than yours, and I got 6.1 against 6.2 you got.

2. You have DDR3 RAM and got 5.9 for it and I have DDR2 RAM and got 6.1.

3. Your graphics chipset is newer than mine and got 6.0 while mine got 5,9 which seems to be fine.

4. Whatever drive you have the difference between mine (WD Scorpio Blue 500GBx2) the difference between the scores is veeeery big 7.4 yours and 5.8 mine.

Does not seem right to me and I believe WEI has nothing to do with performance and actual benchmarks.

 

My CPU was oc'd to 2.545 when I ran the asessment,gets 5.9 @stock 2.26. I also have noticed that ddr2 ram has been outperforming ddr3 in benchmarks. Maybe my Hynix ram modules are inferior quality? My disk score was 5.9 with 320gb 7200rpm hitachi. The 7.4 is with ocz 60gb SSD.

 

Now this is a useless benchmark...

 

Haha,

I just installed Win 7 Pro x64 RTM and the scores are even funnier:

Processor: 6.1
RAM: 6.1
Graphics: 6.6
Gaming graphics: 6.6
Primary HDD: 5.8

Haha, according to MS my single 8800M GTS is better than your dual 9800M GTS