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Windows 8 Users - Post your WEI

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Rvenger

Elite Member <br> Super Moderator <br> Video Cards
I know the WEI can be inaccurate but this is just for fun. I always thought its interesting to see how Microsoft rates hardware - old and new. I am really curious because all of my numbers increased with the same hardware, even my CPU went from a 7.8 to an 8.2 but my SSD went from a 7.9 to an 8.0.

Windows 7

7.8 - CPU
7.9 - Memory
7.9 - Graphics
7.9 - Gaming
7.9 - Hard disk


Windows 8

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Mine and here's why it's stupid and worthless.

8.1 - CPU (having a fast quad gives you 8.1 and HT gives an extra .1? lol)
8.1 - memory (my memory is overclocked to 2133 and I guess an extra 8GB suddenly gives a .1 bonus)
8.1 - graphics (apparently 8.1 isn't the best score you can get and a SLI 670 system is not considered top of the line? let me guess if you had a 4GB card it'd be 8.2?)
8.1 - gaming graphics (same as above...)
8.0 - hard drive (I bet if you had 1TB free space across your SSDs you'd get an 8.2)
 
Here's mine:

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Which is interesting, I seem to score higher in Win7 yet Win8 seems noticeably quicker in all respects.
 
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Handles normal multi-tasking fine, though. I have Firefox open with 14 tabs, Word, Songbird (listening to music), and uTorrent downloading some torrents and CPU usage is at 10-15% with no slowdowns.
 
How did you guys get to this page ?

A new way OR

Did you go to DESKTOP. Also I heard the desktop start menu is faked up and not like vista or 7....... so I mean if your going Windows 8 it better be for their Windows 8 Phone interface....ugly and for blind and retards.

Who cares what windows says with these scores, they are always wrong anyway.

Now they raised the bar it goes to 8.9 lol gl

That's enough, TB
-ViRGE
 
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my laptop is vastly superior to my desktop in all aspects bar the gpu (nvidia vs ati 6970) but classes lower overall due to the low score.

that's why it's pointless, these overall scores mean nothing
 
Component Details Subscore Base score
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz 7.9 7.9
Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB 7.9
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series 7.9
Gaming graphics 11858 MB Total available graphics memory 7.9
Primary hard disk 12GB Free (112GB Total) 7.9
Windows 8 Pro

System
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Manufacturer To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Model To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Total amount of system memory 16.0 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 4

Storage
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Total size of hard disk(s) 2440 GB
Disk partition (C🙂 12 GB Free (112 GB Total)
Disk partition (D🙂 344 GB Free (883 GB Total)
Disk partition (E🙂 176 GB Free (466 GB Total)
Disk partition (F🙂 438 GB Free (980 GB Total)
Media drive (L🙂 CD/DVD

Graphics
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Display adapter type AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
Total available graphics memory 11986 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 4096 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 7890 MB
Display adapter driver version 9.2.0.0
Primary monitor resolution 1920x1200
Secondary monitor resolution 1920x1200
Secondary monitor resolution 1920x1200
DirectX version DirectX 11 or better

Network
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Network Adapter Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet
Network Adapter Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet
Network Adapter Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)
 
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Processor i7 860 7.5
Memory 8GB 1600 7.5
Both Graphics GTX660ti O/C 7.9
Disk Intel X25-M 120GB 7.7

These are the same as produced by Win 7.

I am glad you posted this thread. I thought something was wrong with my graphics scores under Win 8. I understood the 7.9 with Win 7 because this the maximum score. The two GTX670's in this post are rated at 8.1 which makes my 7.9 seem reasonable.

I was expecting a higher score for the GTX660ti because my previous card, a superclocked EVGA GTX460, scored 7.7. WEI obviously measures performance a lot differently than AnandTech and Tom's Hardware.
 
For me everything went up except for the graphics! Running stock speeds with no OC (although tempted to try now)
With Win8 the system feel so much smoother and maybe because of that feels perceptively much much faster

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Just for comparison's sake, here's my scores:

Intel i5-3570k @ 3.6GHz - 7.8
16GB DDR3 1600 - 7.9
Nvidia GTX 275 "Gaming" - 7.2
Nvidia GTX 275 "Gaming Graphics" - 7.2
Crucial m4 128GB - 8.1
 
blurredvision said:
Just for comparison's sake, here's my scores:

Intel i5-3570k @ 3.6GHz - 7.8
16GB DDR3 1600 - 7.9
Nvidia GTX 275 "Gaming" - 7.2
Nvidia GTX 275 "Gaming Graphics" - 7.2
Crucial m4 128GB - 8.1
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Interesting my 128gb Vertex 4 scores an 8.0.
 
7.6 overall (due to my video card)...here's the breakdown:

Processor: 7.9 (2500K @ 4.5GHz)
Ram: 7.9 (16GB Kingston @ stock)
Graphics (both): 7.6 (GTX 460, stock...haven't overclocked it again yet)
Crucial M4 128: 8.1

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not sure why it's only detecting my processor as 3.5ghz (its overclocked to 4.5ghz with corsair H100 cooler), but oh well.. and that's (2) GTX680's in SLI, hence the reason its claiming 4GB of VRAM...

some 8.3's on there, but final score is 8.1 (though it only counts a single GPU, so it's likely 9.9 for GPU factoring in both [this is confirmed on the advanced print/details screen])


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Processor (i7-3770K): 8.0
Memory (RAM) Corsair DDR3 CL9 16GB 1600Mhz: 8.0
Graphics - GTX460 sonic : 7.5
Gaming graphics: 7.5
Primary hard disk 2 x Crucial M4 128GB Raid0: 8.2
 
Rvenger said:
I know the WEI can be inaccurate but this is just for fun. I always thought its interesting to see how Microsoft rates hardware - old and new. I am really curious because all of my numbers increased with the same hardware, even my CPU went from a 7.8 to an 8.2 but my SSD went from a 7.9 to an 8.0.

Windows 7

7.8 - CPU
7.9 - Memory
7.9 - Graphics
7.9 - Gaming
7.9 - Hard disk


Windows 8

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Click to expand...

the reason why it increased is windows 7 used a scale from 1 - 7.9
windows 8 uses a scale from 1 - 9.9
hence the small increase in your score and leaving room for improvement with later improvements in cpu's and gpu's etc
 
cmdrdredd said:
Mine and here's why it's stupid and worthless.

8.1 - CPU (having a fast quad gives you 8.1 and HT gives an extra .1? lol)
8.1 - memory (my memory is overclocked to 2133 and I guess an extra 8GB suddenly gives a .1 bonus)
8.1 - graphics (apparently 8.1 isn't the best score you can get and a SLI 670 system is not considered top of the line? let me guess if you had a 4GB card it'd be 8.2?)
8.1 - gaming graphics (same as above...)
8.0 - hard drive (I bet if you had 1TB free space across your SSDs you'd get an 8.2)
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You think you got it bad I'm running 2x680oc and only hitting the same scores wtf windows something is no on with the graphics score!

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 - 3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz 7.8
7.8
Determined by lowest subscore
Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB 7.8
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 8.1
Gaming graphics 3967 MB Total available graphics memory 8.1
Primary hard disk 60GB Free (111GB Total) 8.1
Windows 8 Pro
System
Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Model To be filled by O.E.M.
Total amount of system memory 16.0 GB RAM
System type 64 - bit operating system
Number of processor cores 4
Storage
Total size of hard disk(s) 6454 GB
Disk partition (C🙂 60 GB Free (111 GB Total)
Disk partition (D🙂 427 GB Free (753 GB Total)
Disk partition (E🙂 258 GB Free (1863 GB Total)
Disk partition (F🙂 578 GB Free (1863 GB Total)
Disk partition (G🙂 1205 GB Free (1863 GB Total)
Media drive (H🙂 CD/DVD
Graphics
Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
Total available graphics memory 4095 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 2048 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 2047 MB
Display adapter driver version 6.2.9200.16384
Primary monitor resolution 1920x1080
Secondary monitor resolution 1680x1050
DirectX version DirectX 11 or better
 
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