Windows Experience Index

[dangel]

Can we get a WEI for your "portable starcraft" machine, please?

p.s. I'm only jealous because I *don't * have a portable starcraft machine

lol - sure i'll grab one from it over the w/e

It was utterly vital on a 13 hour flight over xmas!

[Fraz]

Shouldn't it be easier and all that on a mac

Err, it's pretty hard to get a screenshot of my Windows Experience Index when I'm using OS X. My PC is in another building several miles from my current location and it's switched off.

[GheeTsar]

Pretty balanced system even if I do say so myself:

[.walls]

Processor: 6.9
Memory: 5.9
Graphics: 1.0
Gaming graphics: 1.0
Primary hard disk: 5.9




(It is in a VM though!)

[scaryjim]

Can't remember the exact figures on my HTPC at home (I can check it later) but it has a bizzarrely lower score for desktop graphics than gaming graphics - something like 3.1 instead of 3.9! ...

It's actually an awful lot worse than I remembered...



SPECS: AMD Sempron 140 @ 2.7GHz, ASUS 785G EVO w. 128MB sideport, 2GB DDR3 RAM (single channel), 500GB Seagate SATA HDD,

2.0 for desktop graphics, 4.6 for gaming graphics. What?!? Otherwise it's a reasonably balanced system for a low power HTPC (if I say so myself )

Gaming rig scores to follow...

[matty-hodgson]

All at stock.

[Terbinator]

Why does Lego Batmans 4870 have a higher rating than Matty's GTX 275 Q.Q

[matty-hodgson]

Why does Lego Batmans 4870 have a higher rating than Matty's GTX 275 Q.Q

Or a more pressing issue, why does Ulti's 4770 have a higher rating? .
Maybe NVIDIA cards just aren't as good in this test?

[scaryjim]

I did wonder if the test doesn't stress some cards enough to bring them up to full clock speeds, given that my HD4200 with 128MB DDR3 on a 32bit interface manages 4.6 for gaming...

I wonder if that might also be the cause of my unusually low desktop score (although I suppose that might also be to do with amount of video RAM - perhaps I should try dedicating some system RAM to my IGP and see if improves things... ).

[Ulti]

It's actually an awful lot worse than I remembered...



SPECS: AMD Sempron 140 @ 2.7GHz, ASUS 785G EVO w. 128MB sideport, 2GB DDR3 RAM (single channel), 500GB Seagate SATA HDD,

2.0 for desktop graphics, 4.6 for gaming graphics. What?!? Otherwise it's a reasonably balanced system for a low power HTPC (if I say so myself )

Gaming rig scores to follow...

Just for a bit of comparison, his is almost the same as this build, except I've overclocked a few things.
AMD Sempron 140 unlocked and overclocked to 3.6Ghz
MSI 785GM-E51 with HD4200 OCed to 700Mhz Core
4GB OCZ Platinum clocked at 1424mhz CL4.
Some really old crappy 40GB WD SATA Drive.

Processor: 6.7
RAM: 5.9
Graphics: 4.2
Gaming Graphics: 5.5
HD: 5.4

[scaryjim]

Intriguing - do you have sideport or are you running with 256MB shared memory? I'm running my HD4200 on *just* the 128MB sideport, which I think is the main factor in bringing down my Aero score (do you really need 256MB to get reasonable Aero performance? It seems to run smoothly enough for me...)

[Ulti]

The MSI 785GM-E51 doesn't have sideport memory, I always thought it was an advantage though from what I've read in reviews.

[scaryjim]

It may be if you're sensible and use both sideport *and* shared memory But since that's my HTPC and rarely used for gaming I originally figured I'd see how it ran if I *only* used the sideport to run the graphics. As it turned out, it ran pretty well, so I stuck with just using sideport. As you can see from the gaming score it's pretty good - apparently Aero doesn't like the lack of memory though!

[Ulti]

Both the points you made are probably true. Shame I don't have the board anymore as I could have seen the difference between it being on stock and not overclocked/unlocked.

Will be building an AM3 system in the next week so I'll post an update next week with the "new" system.

[Terbinator]

I think it depends on which type of SidePort you use as well doesn't it as some boards use DDR2 while some use DDR3 ?

[scaryjim]

I think it depends on which type of SidePort you use as well doesn't it as some boards use DDR2 while some use DDR3 ?

I think you're right, yes. Mine has DDR3 running at 1333MHz effective (iirc), but there are BIOS options to overclock it to some ridiculous speed like 1780MHz effective. That'd give it higher memory bandwidth than a stock HD3450!

tbh, every time I go into the BIOS on that rig my fingers are itching to unlock the extra core, ramp up the clock speeds on everything and see how fast I can make it go. Then I remember that 90% of its work load is playing SD DVDs and figure it's better to leave it undervolted, saving energy and keeping temps down (the CPU doesn't go above 30degrees at the minute!)