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Lifer
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I know it's pointless, but I just put together a new rig and ran the WEI. All I got is a measly 4790K. LOL

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VirtualLarry

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Not bad. What GPU do you have? (I find it hard to believe that the IGP in a 4790K would score 7.9 for both gaming and aero.)
 

mnewsham

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The windows experience index was removed from windows 8 so not sure what mine would score, but likely similar everywhere except the CPU, the A10-7850k isn't a very powerful CPU, but it works.
 

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Lifer
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The windows experience index was removed from windows 8 so not sure what mine would score, but likely similar everywhere except the CPU, the A10-7850k isn't a very powerful CPU, but it works.

I like the 7850K. Bought it for my wife. It does everything she needs and more. She doesn't game so the onboard graphics works great for her. I paired it up with 8GB of 1866 memory.
 

Venoom

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The windows experience index was removed from windows 8 so not sure what mine would score, but likely similar everywhere except the CPU, the A10-7850k isn't a very powerful CPU, but it works.

it's still there actually, only the graphical interface is gone, you just have to use cmd and Windows PowerShell to get the results.

Step 1: Open a command prompt as administrator, then type "winsat prepop" and press Enter. This will run the benchmark and store the results on your PC as XML files.

Step 2: type in "Winsat formal -v" and hit Enter.

Step 3: Open the Windows Powershell as administrator, then type "Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_WinSAT" and press Enter. This will analyze the results in the XML files, then present them as scores for each category.


source: http://www.cnet.com/how-to/find-your-windows-experience-index-scores-in-windows-8-1/
 

bunnyfubbles

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The windows experience index was removed from windows 8 so not sure what mine would score, but likely similar everywhere except the CPU, the A10-7850k isn't a very powerful CPU, but it works.

yeah, I have mixed feeling about them removing it from 8 (at least the user friendly version, as I believe its still in there through commands), on the one hand its good because it was mostly useless and a bit too easy for manufacturers to cheat on, on the other it was a quick/rough way to make sure that the computer was set up properly after a first install.

a pretty big problem with the rating system was the arbitrary levels, for instance in order to achieve the maximum 7.9 score for CPU you needed to have at least 8 physical cores, didn't matter if a heavily overclocked 6 core CPU could greatly outperform 8 physical cores in almost any test, you'd still get a 7.8.

and of course GPUs maxed out at 7.9 somewhere back with Fermi/Evergreen, which would get absolutely demolished by today's flagships
 

mnewsham

Lifer
Oct 2, 2010
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it's still there actually, only the graphical interface is gone, you just have to use cmd and Windows PowerShell to get the results.

Step 1: Open a command prompt as administrator, then type "winsat prepop" and press Enter. This will run the benchmark and store the results on your PC as XML files.

Step 2: type in "Winsat formal -v" and hit Enter.

Step 3: Open the Windows Powershell as administrator, then type "Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_WinSAT" and press Enter. This will analyze the results in the XML files, then present them as scores for each category.


source: http://www.cnet.com/how-to/find-your-windows-experience-index-scores-in-windows-8-1/

Here it is, CPU scores much higher than I thought it would.


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Smoblikat

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Here it is, CPU scores much higher than I thought it would.


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You scored an 8.1 out of 7.9 in graphics............thats a fast chip :p

My computer gets a 6.7 WEI because im running a single old SSD, everything else is 7.9.
 

bunnyfubbles

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You scored an 8.1 out of 7.9 in graphics............thats a fast chip :p

My computer gets a 6.7 WEI because im running a single old SSD, everything else is 7.9.

its Windows 8, they bumped the max score ceiling up just like they did with Vista to 7

8 = max of 9.9
7 = max of 7.9
Vista = max of 5.9
 

Venoom

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getting a nice 8.4 accross the board (except the Disk, where it's just 8.0) on my old X58 system.
 

bbhaag

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Here it is, CPU scores much higher than I thought it would.


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Interesting. It looks like your cpu is on par with my 965 running a GTX560 ti.
Of course yours uses a lot less power which is cool.
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mfenn

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its Windows 8, they bumped the max score ceiling up just like they did with Vista to 7

8 = max of 9.9
7 = max of 7.9
Vista = max of 5.9

And of course the scale is different as well, so a 5.9 from Vista isn't the same as a 5.9 from 7 or a 5.9 from 8. Because that would be too simple I suppose.
 

Puffnstuff

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ChrisPC has an app that gives you the graphical interface back. The price is a few ads at the end to help pay for their work. My pc scores 8.1 on it lol.