Windows 7 WEI Scores

[powerarmour]

Just a thread for our Windows 7 WEI scores, especially as the hardware points go up to 7.9 now instead of 5.9.

Here's mine on build 7057 x64, with nothing overclocked/as is :-

[jpr]

[I don't know why I was unable to upload a screen shot to imageshack or other image hosts, so no pic.]

Windows 7 build 7000, under VirtualBox (only one CPU core, 1.5GB of RAM) yields the following:

Processor: 3.5
Memory: 4.2
Graphics: 1.0
G.Graphics: 1.0
HDD: 5.9

Not too bad, I'd say, especially the HDD score . The system is actually quite usable, screen redraws and other "graphically intensive" operations (moving/resizing/minimzing windows, for example) are the only (obvious) issues.

[powerarmour]

Just chucked it on my old Laptop also :-

[powerarmour]

Zotac ION N330 :-

[Seawolf]

Amusingly, clocking the Q6600@3Ghz makes hardly any difference, and it even drops the Gaming Graphics score :-

If your vidcard and proc automatically adjust for heat that would explain that.

[daglesj]

I've never felt these scores are of any practical value whatsoever.

I'm sure a better benchmarking tool would be more useful.....err for something?

[Seawolf]

I've never felt these scores are of any practical value whatsoever.

I'm sure a better benchmarking tool would be more useful.....err for something?

They are if apps actually check them for their autoadjusting, but I haven't seen any that do.

I have apps on my laptop adjust to Very High Texture Detail or sommat on a machine with 128 megs video RAM...which is just mind bogglingly stupid when the apps 'require' 256 megs.

[powerarmour]

I've never felt these scores are of any practical value whatsoever.

I'm sure a better benchmarking tool would be more useful.....err for something?

As Seawolf said they are there so apps can automatically adjust if they support the feature. Plus it's a set of numbers for idiots to understand when it comes to buying software/games that need higher minimum requirements than a WEI score of 3.0 or something to run adequately.

But apart from that I think they a fairly decent reference figures (the WEI in Windows 7 is anyway...) so you can gauge roughly what kind of performance you are likely to see in the OS itself, in many ways this is a benchmark of the 'OS' rather than any app that runs on it.

[duc25]

Currently toying with:
Tyan Thunder S2927
1x Opteron 8347 HE 55W 1.9GHz
2GB ECC DDR2 PC5300
Samsung HDD
Onboard XGI Volari Z7 (pitiful)

This is probably my first build in the last 3-4 years that actually uses an Nvidia chipset, a welcome return to nforcershq.

[powerarmour]

ASRock ION 330 @ 2Ghz OC on Win7 x64 and OCZ Vertex 60GB :-