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Subject: Windows Experience Score
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banbury 4.08.12 - 03:40pm
I think iam speaking for most members when I say iam very sceptical over microsofts wei. one indication to make you a sceptic over this tools accuracy is that it scores the majority of standard hard drives as 5.9. ok so in some isolated cases you may get a figure of 5.7 but 5.9 seems to be an allmost default score regardless of the spec of the hd, and surprisingly even regardless of if its a laptop or desktop hd. * +

banbury 4.08.12 - 03:45pm
this seems crazy especially when laptop drives normally rotate at a much slower speed of 5,400rpm compared to the desktops 7,200rpm. and high performance drives like wd scorpip black also give the same 5.9 score in my experiance. anyway I would like to share a comparison with you that may or may not reinforce the theory of wei being inaccurate depending on your opinion. * +

banbury 4.08.12 - 03:49pm
2 laptops: the first is a sony vaio. specs: sandy bridge core i3 with standard intel hd3000 graphics, 4gb ram, 320gb hard drive. the second laptop is an acer aspire 5750 and its specs are: sandy bridge core i5, standard intel hd3000 graphics, 8gb ram, 1tb hard drive. firstly, despite the larger hd, faster cpu and 8gb of ram in the acer, the sony boots up just as fast as the acer does that surprise you? infact both are around the same boot up time and both are running windows 7 home premuim 64 bit * +

spartan2 4.08.12 - 03:50pm
WEs is meaningless and not a good measure of performance. One of the reasons being the problem you cite. Mechanical hard drives are all limited to a maximum score of 5.9 once they reach a certain performance level. Beyond that you can have RAID 0 which i did for a couple years and despite it being at least 3 times faster than a laptop mechanical drive it is still mechanical and therefore can only get 5.9. Only SSDs can be higher * +

banbury 4.08.12 - 03:56pm
despite the difference in boot up time the acer still gets a higher overall score of 5.9 when compared to the sony vaios overall of 4.7 which may or may not point to a better performing hd in the vaio. but what surprised me was the individual scores relating to aero and gaming graphics. both laptops have the same intergrated hd3000 graphics solution yet the acer scores much higher than the sony vaio on the graphics and aero scores why? I expected the cpu in the acer to get a slightly higher score than the vaio and it did but I didnt expect to see a difference in graphics. * +

spartan2 4.08.12 - 04:03pm
Does it matter? Its just not important. WES is pointless and nobody cares about it. It isn't remotely considered when it comes to benchmarks or measuring performance * +

banbury 4.08.12 - 04:04pm
both laptops rely entirely on intergrated intel hd3000 graphics having no seperate graphics card so shouldnt the scores be the same if they both share the same graphics? Iam aware the core i5 has turbo boost but that only kicks in at demand and its not related to graphics * +

banbury 4.08.12 - 04:08pm
spartan2 I dont mean no disrespect but we all know ssd is faster than mechanical drives and this wasnt a comparison for that and in case the majority of laptops have mechanical hard drives as obvious as that may sound. the wei score matters to me in that iam very curious about its results however meaningless they may appear lol. but yes ssd is no doubt the only type of drive that will get a higher score. I know wei is cr*p but maybe I just get a kick out of continually proving it is lol. but can any bright spark out there tell my the same graphics solution would give different scores in the tw * +

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