What your PC Windows Score?
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Yamikotai
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This is my desktop. The SSD benchmarks like a champ - like, pretty much on spec - but for some reason never scores well in the WEI.
http://gyazo.com/11ed4ec8bbed0f1326ab94fd3475ceb3.png
Personally I consider the real score to be 7.5, though it's a pretty meaningless number anyway; very easy to meddle with.
Edit: I was bored and changed the numbers so they'd all be 15.9. Unfortunately it seemingly (and sensibly) refuses to display the numbers if they're above the max. It just looks like this:
http://gyazo.com/de8af81ffe6f5955a0a458057d5cffb4.png
I also tried it with the numbers as 8 rather than 7.9 and it still didn't accept 'em.
http://gyazo.com/11ed4ec8bbed0f1326ab94fd3475ceb3.png
Personally I consider the real score to be 7.5, though it's a pretty meaningless number anyway; very easy to meddle with.
Edit: I was bored and changed the numbers so they'd all be 15.9. Unfortunately it seemingly (and sensibly) refuses to display the numbers if they're above the max. It just looks like this:
http://gyazo.com/de8af81ffe6f5955a0a458057d5cffb4.png
I also tried it with the numbers as 8 rather than 7.9 and it still didn't accept 'em.
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Yamikotai
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Yeah, you'd think it'd be the average of the scores rather than the lowest.
OneZeoN
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Yeah oh well I know its better lol
Do remember that the WEI (Windows Experience Index) picks the lowest score as your score because as it has been quoted in numerous places 'you are only as strong as the weakest link' (or something like that anyways, cant remember the exact wording), so it picks the lowest score as your index, it doesn't know what you PC is going to be used for so just tells you the lowest score.
Also between Win7 and Win8 they changed how it works, on Win7 the score goes upto 7.9, on Win8 it goes upto 9.9, this does not mean on your machine if you get 7.9 on Win7 you will get 9.9 on Win8, in fact I've heard it said that on Win8 your scores will be lower on the exact same machine despite the fact the range goes higher.
But basically the WEI isn't actually a very good scoring system and its best not to dwell on the results.
Also between Win7 and Win8 they changed how it works, on Win7 the score goes upto 7.9, on Win8 it goes upto 9.9, this does not mean on your machine if you get 7.9 on Win7 you will get 9.9 on Win8, in fact I've heard it said that on Win8 your scores will be lower on the exact same machine despite the fact the range goes higher.
But basically the WEI isn't actually a very good scoring system and its best not to dwell on the results.
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Boozad
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Exactly. It had my AMD A10-5800k as 7.9, but my i5-4670k is only 7.7. Same goes for the Kingston HyperX Genesis scoring less than the Samsung (both 1600MHz).
Picking the lowest makes some sense, as computing performance is limited by bottlenecks - e.g., if the CPU is too slow, a faster GPU won't give you any actual benefit. It's better to try to build balanced systems. It's not perfect, but I'd argue using an average would be more flawed. The main problem is that non-gamers would be rated poorly for poor gaming graphics, even though that's something they don't care about.
Biggest problem is that systems using NVIDIA Optimus technology are only tested on the Intel graphics - I'm not aware of a way to fix this(?)
Biggest problem is that systems using NVIDIA Optimus technology are only tested on the Intel graphics - I'm not aware of a way to fix this(?)
Yamikotai
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Why you delete post >.>
