Windows 7 Performance Index - Benchmark

Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
edited March 2010 in Hardware
How does your system shape up when running the Windows performance Index tests?

I have done a few more tests and got my system to run the WEI without freezing & it truly increases with the OC of your system.

Looks like my main bottleneck is my HD :(

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So Just ordered a few Raptor drives again... setup a nice raid, which should boost that number :)
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  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited October 2009
    Here's mine:

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  • GooDGooD Quebec (CAN) Member
    edited October 2009
    don't have time to do a screenshot atm but im at 5.9 (7.5/7.5/6.8/6.8/5.9)
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    What hard drives you guys using?
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited October 2009
    Sledgehammer70 wrote:
    What hard drives you guys using?

    Ordinary SATA 3Gb/s drives (Maxtor 250GB) in AHCI mode
  • GooDGooD Quebec (CAN) Member
    edited October 2009
    I have a RAPTOR 150Ggig and a WD 1TB.
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    wait.. your raptor got a score of 5.9?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    I have a Raptor too :-/

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  • GooDGooD Quebec (CAN) Member
    edited October 2009
    Yeah, maybe the score is based with a SSD drive as a maximum score base.

    The raptor is a very good drive, but it's nothing when you compare it to a good SSD drive.
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    /cry...
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    Really, though, what do these performance numbers actually mean :-/

    On a side note, it's good to have Sledge back in the hardware game :D
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    primesuspect wrote:
    Really, though, what do these performance numbers actually mean :-/

    ePeen
  • lordbeanlordbean Ontario, Canada
    edited October 2009
    fatcat wrote:
    ePeen

    ^ This.

    In theory, the windows performance index was supposed to be a way to help you choose software and know it could run on your computer (software was supposed to say requires x graphics score or above, or other such things)... but since Vista flopped, it never really happened.
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    Yes... the Experience Index is suppose to level the field. At any given point in time, a user should be able to refer to the Experience Index to get an idea how their system matches up to another. Is it great? Not quite but it can be useful. I can say that my laptop is nowhere close to the new hot rods but why? I could look at two systems and see that integrated video is rated below my discrete video card.

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  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited October 2009
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    hahaha.... RAID 10 of Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 160GB drives.
    I really need to replace my Windsor core X2 with one of the Propus X4s though =/
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    My home machine rocks a 7.8 on everything except for hard disk which is at 5.9 as well. I think we need Robert to test his SSD.

    I'm running a 640GB Caviar Black drive these days.
  • mas0nmas0n howdy Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    My two Velocirpators in RAID 0 on a dedicated 3Ware controller only get 6.2 as well. I think Microsoft has a few buddies who want to move some SSDs.
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    I am trying to snag a SSD for some testing with this. For some reason I still think it will fall short of anything amazing.

    As for primes comment... it isn't just an epeen race, I think it also (for me anyways), gives me an idea of how Windows rates the pricey hardware I have installed. Do I honestly care what Microsoft's WEI thinks? meh... not really, but it is another benching tool to use that shows us just how their system benchmark thinks/works.

    I should also note, I have noticed the scores I get with the WEI program to bench my system not running W7 seems to give me even lower results.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    It's just an absolute scale, you sillies. If a RAIDed set of Intel X-25s gets a billion more MB of throughput, it deserves the 7.8.
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    But we have not seen what a set of SSD's can really do...
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    But presumably somebody at MS's benchmarking group has. I'm drooling in vicarious anticipation.
  • RyderRyder Kalamazoo, Mi Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    I have someone that can do this.. hmmmmm ;)

    PM45 Chipset (The OCZ 17" DIY with the Dual Radeons)
    Single OCZ Vertex on the new FW with TRIM.
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  • mas0nmas0n howdy Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    Snarkasm wrote:
    It's just an absolute scale, you sillies. If a RAIDed set of Intel X-25s gets a billion more MB of throughput, it deserves the 7.8.

    I'm just assuming that at some point, it begins to weigh access times heavier than bandwidth because there is seriously a wall for mechanical drives on this index. This would makes sense, given the diminishing returns of increased bandwidth for your typical user.

    For example, I have an old 7200RPM SATA drive w/o perp recording that scores ~4.3. A single Raptor which is no more than %50 faster in any regard, scores 5.9. Two VRaptors, which offer 4 times the bandwidth of the single Raptor and even better access times, only score 6.2.

    I'd love to see the scoring methods.
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    Nice Ryder... Very nice.
  • RyderRyder Kalamazoo, Mi Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    Here is another one.

    Dell Inspiron 1720
    965 chipset
    ICH8-M SATA controller
    This controller is locked at SATA1 speeds, which means no more than 150MB/s writes on an SSD drive. We see 225+ on SATAII controllers for single drives.
    OCZ Agility running the TRIM FW.

    So based on my 1st post with a fully open SATA II controller and basically the same drive, we only saw a 0.2 jump in the WEI for the drive.
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited November 2009
    Here is mine.

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    Again the bottleneck is the harddrive.
    And I am running two Seagate Barracuda ES 320 GB in a Raid 0 array.
    I am using the integrated nVidia controller on my Asus Crosshair Formula II.

    Microsoft really wants you to buy SSD. ;D
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited November 2009
    I just swapped my Opteron for Athlon X2 4200+. Swapped the gForce 7800 for the 8800 then used the AI Overclocking for additional 10% OC.

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  • JBHyperlite39JBHyperlite39
    edited November 2009
    Alright I'm baffled guys I got a samsung pm-800 256gm SSD in my laptop and I got a 5.9! The same as my friends 7200rpm. I'm not sure what to think. I'm hoping it's an error but I've ran the damn test 3 times!

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  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited November 2009
    Just a thought, JBHyperlite39... maybe your laptop is not using the 3.0 Gbit/s but the 1.5 Gbit/s instead???
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited November 2009
    Have you run some benchmarks on it to prove that it's actually performing better than your friend's 7200rpm? Not all SSDs are created equal.
  • JBHyperlite39JBHyperlite39
    edited November 2009
    I haven't ran any benchmarks. How would I check to se if it's using 3.0gbits vs 1.5gbit/sec
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