Poor memory WEI

[ggadrian]

SOme months ago I built an a10-5800k office rig (I know, little overkill for word and chrome) and since then it scores a 5.9 in memory WEI.

I was kinda obsesed, because other computer using an i3 and 2x4GB 1333 memory scores a 7.5

SO I decided to take it home and OC the memory to see what happens, and I have it like that right now:

-2x2GB 1091.4 MHz (2182) 11-12-10-33-43
-NB 2046 MHz

GPU-Z says that y have a bandwidth of 34.8GB/s

And the score still is 5.9.

How is it even possible?

 

[Cerb]

How is it even possible?

By the test scoring about that, doing whatever magic operations it does? WEI has a few hard caps, but it's main purpose is to see that everything is OK.

I don't see why an AMD APU, at least not overclocked by a hefty margin, should score as well as a stock i3, though. Intel's memory and cache performance is superior. There's no amount of non-core overclocking you can do to fix that, and it would be silly to try (you could upgrade to an i5 for the cost of cooling, I'd bet).

The best thing you can do is go have a drink, to take care of those nerves, and stop obsessing over it. Unless a new machine with a $100+ CPU and >4GB RAM gets a score <5, there's nothing to worry about.

 

[KingFatty]

Weren't all hard drives capped to scores of 5.9? Maybe there is a similar hard limit to give you the 5.9 score no matter how much you overclock the memory. Perhaps it could be the fact that you are under 1333? Or maybe that you aren't a perfect ratio or whatever? Can you set the memory to 1067 and see if that affect the score? Maybe someone else can identify something that is creating the hard limit of 5.9. I dunno, just that number jumped out at me because it reminded me of the arbitrary limit to the storage scores unless you had an SSD.

 

[Cerb]

Weren't all hard drives capped to scores of 5.9? Maybe there is a similar hard limit to give you the 5.9 score no matter how much you overclock the memory. Perhaps it could be the fact that you are under 1333? Or maybe that you aren't a perfect ratio or whatever? Can you set the memory to 1067 and see if that affect the score? Maybe someone else can identify something that is creating the hard limit of 5.9. I dunno, just that number jumped out at me because it reminded me of the arbitrary limit to the storage scores unless you had an SSD.

Could be, given the OP only has 4GB.

http://superuser.com/questions/411872/performance-required-to-improve-windows-experience-index
^ Indeed, 4GB allows a higher score, but 4032MB or less does not.

 

[ggadrian]

Thank you all.

The hard limit explains everything.

I meen, I know that the i3 has a better memory controller, nut the difference between 1333 and 2180 should help to obtains, if not the same score, a similar one.

Anyway, now that I know the reason, I can put it back yo stock and let it browse the internet and write docs.

 

[holden j caufield]

if you have a mechanical 7200rpm drive I'm sure you'll get a 5.9 everything else could be 7.0 but the lowest mark is what your wei will be.

 

[ggadrian]

if you have a mechanical 7200rpm drive I'm sure you'll get a 5.9 everything else could be 7.0 but the lowest mark is what your wei will be.

It was about the RAM subscore.

I have something like a 7.2 for the storage (SSD)