How does one get a perfect WEI score?

[Karl Agathon]

Got my PC last Firday and one of the first things I did was run the WEI. My question is, how does one exactly get a perfect 7.9 rating? I dont intend on buying new hardware just to do that. I was just curious is all. Thanks for any info.

 

[GaryJohnson]

how does one exactly get a perfect 7.9 rating?

The easiest way is to edit the files in Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore

I'm not sure it's actually possible to get a 7.9. And because you can "hack" the scores so easily it's really hard to track down if anyone has actually done it. Most serious benchmarking sites don't seem to hold the WEI in high regard, so they don't bother with it.

There appears to be some artificial limits that seem to inconsistently cap some scores and not others. I don't believe that the exact methodology for WEI is documented anywhere.

 

[ViRGE]

Short of a human sacrifice there's no easy way. Even with a Vertex 2 SSD, I only get 7.6 on the storage score.

 

[Karl Agathon]

Thanks for responding. I got a 7.6 base score (my Samsung SSD getting a 7.6 on the storage score too) so im more then happy with the score. I very recently started using Windows 7 aftter many good years of Win XP use, so im still getting used to the tools.

 

[Diogenes2]

For some strange reason, I have a 7.9 with my M4 128..

You only have my word I didn't hack it, so putting up a screen shot wouldn't really help ..

 

[Karl Agathon]

Well I take you at your word then. im actually a little suprised mine scored so high, being that its only SATA II and not III

 

[MehmetN]

@Karl Agathon

Actually, I think the bottleneck could be your SSD itself rather than SATA 3GB/s (around 350 MB/sec) bandwidth.

I seem to have an unusable system (BSOD every couple of days with lost Bootmgr) with a beautiful 7.6 on CPU and 7.9 on everything else. I have a friend whose scores are much, much lower but aside from the "snappiness" courtesy of my SSD disk, I don't see much difference there.

Moral of the story, WEI is not really a good indicator so I wouldn't bother (even though I do understand the appeal of seeing all 7.9s there ).

Cheers...