what hardware gets you a 7.9 WEI?

Here's mine, on my last notebook all the scores were about in the same range, but this one just nags at me to click on Newegg:


Anyway what ram/proc/gpu scores 7.9? That's an odd max score also, 7.9. Is there any rational basis behind that, or MS just decided to be hip like that?

 

Well, you would need a SSD hdd... Either way, who cares about that silly score, lol.

 

You'd need to have a top-of-the-line desktop to get close to 7.9 across the board. Even with my SSD, I am around 6.9 across all the scores.

 

Like pitabred said, you would need a highly overclocked cpu(prolly gulftown), quality oc'ing memory, top videocards in sli or xfire, and multiple ssd's in raid to get 7.9 on everything.

 

Bigger is always better. What are you unamerican? Anyway don't stomp my buzz I'm happy because my WEI went up lol, so I want it to be meaningful. I still wonder why it stops at "7.9" though. "11" would have been so much better. But yeah I need an ssd evidently.

Btw, as a complete aside because I don't want to post more stupid q's, but, what does it mean when Windows says "this program may not have installed correctly" and tells you to choose between reinstalling or saying it's fine? Does that mean anything at all if the installer completed successfully?

 

I've seen desktops with a i7-920 (OC'd) and a 5870 (OCd) getting 7.9.

 

One can waste a ton of money trying to chase down a higher WEI score especially in a laptop. In the end, it really doesn't get you much in real life. Most laptops that score in the 6 and 7s run great anyways. Your scores are fine, just relax and enjoy your laptop.

On the install program error, it usually means you need to install the program in administrator mode. To do that, just right click on the install program and select "run as administrator".

 

Lol I'm already enjoying it immensely, best I've owned, one week in. And I'm not looking to up my score other than the hdd, which I knew was choking me before I looked at the WEI. I'm far far away from being a power user so with an ssd I think this will be a screamer/for me.

Thanks! That got rid of the msg. I just installed on top of it though, that's fine right?

Another basic q if you guys don't mind. The "Safely Eject Hardware" thing for external hdds. Necessary, or can I just yank the cord when the copying files window goes away? 9/10 it's immediate if I use that click, but 1/10 it just keeps saying "device in use, close all apps..." over and over for minutes. Nothing is running in task manager or anything but it just chugs like that. Do I have to just let that run its course?

 

I think the easiest thing to do is to wait until the drive light stops flashing when copying files before disconnecting the drive. There is sometimes a lag when the window disappears and when the files are done copying, especially if your drive is a tad slow or the files you're copying are large.

 

Yes... Quite...

 

My Dell M4500 shows 7.2/7.5 for processor/memory (i7-920x), and a 7.8 disk score for my Crucial C300. Of course, the FX1800 graphics card in that little lappie is weak at 6.6 for both graphics scores. The M6500 should score in the low 7s for Graphics, but I think that's about the top of where you'll get with a laptop. Like others have said, to get 7.9, you need a high-powered desktop, with top-of-the-line SLI graphics and six-core i7...

 

my Macbook Pro 17's 6.4 across the board, except the hard drive which is at 5.8.

 

My friend's desktop / gaming machine as 7.9:

Gigabyte X58A-UD9
Intel Core i7 980X @ 4.4 Ghz liquid cooled
6 GB Corsair Dominator memory DDR3-1866
4 X C300 128GB in RAID 0 with some expensive RAID card
Dual GTX 480 in SLI
3 HP dreamcolors

 

Better yet, just go into device manager, find that specific hard drive, right click properties, go to policies and turn off write caching. It won't have pending data to be written.

 

I got a 5.9 on memory with 1333MHZ DDR 4gb...

 

I thought write caching increases performance?

 

i get 7.8 on everything except HDD which gives me 5.9

 

Holy smokes this explains so many things. Thanks. See now this is why I toss out random comments on the webs, you just never know what you might reel in. I mean this began as a nothing question on WEI by me, and look at what happened.

 

Here's my desktop's score. I'm using the Hitachi Deskstar 2TB 7200rpm

 

Spinning disks are limited to 5.9 in WEI, no matter how fast they are.