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Windows Experience Index

It is good for your specs.

But WEI is not a totally awesome metric, since it favors SSDs (HDDs limited to 5.9), and if you didn't have 4GB or more of memory you'd also be limited to 5.9 regardless if you had the fastest memory in the world.

In short, it's good.
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OK cool. I was overclocked to 3.6 Ghz, but had hardware issues so I'm back to stock for now. I'll see if I can get back to a stable 3.6.

reply to Wily_One
To help with perspective.... 7.9 on Win7's WEI is basically a cutoff. There's a lot of hardware that buries the needle and, if the scale were extended further, could easily score much higher. So, my overclocked i5-2500 scores 7.9 and my stock q6600 scores 7.1 (iirc)... that doesn't mean my i5 is only 11% better.

IOW, WEI doesn't really help you see how good a system is, especially when compared to newer hardware. WEI is most useful in quickly assessing how bad a system is.

Yours, at a glance, is not so bad. I think your CPU and chipset are on the cusp of being issues for you for gaming and other intensive tasks. But for general computing, you could run this system happily for a few more years easily.
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reply to Wily_One
I'd have a 7.5 if I didn't have a 2 year old video card lowering me to 6.8.

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I wonder if they'll ever update the weighting system of WEI. I know it changed between Vista and Win7.

I get a 7.8 on my older Corsair Force SSD drive. My OCZ Vertex 3 which is much MUCH faster scores a 7.9.

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I am not a nub, I do not need to "feel" better.

The point here is, the CPU is overclocked *not stock* also those benches your linked are not stock benches...

and you ignore the fact that the CPU is very close to top end, and with that overclock... even closer to top end...

Then you have a 470, mid top range when it came out... we already went to 5xx the 560 ti trades blows with the 470, the 580 eats it... the 590 omg wut... yet it gets a 7.9

If anything the CPU/ram in this system should get the 7.9 and the GPU the 7.6.

and the ram... a 7.6... yes it is not 2100 ram but I have 16 gigs of it... however almost nothing needs that sort of ram bandwidth... but the 470 got a 7.9

Going off my scores you would say the system could use a better cpu/ram... when infact it needs a better GPU over either of those...

Point is they are a very bad measure of performance as the OP used it... "good or bad" does not matter with WEI. Point here is the OP should not worry about the WEI... lol OP's 560ti SC scored lower than my 470.

IMO the WEI should not be something to even look at, if the OP has a problem, or wants to know how good his system will play a game, we should get that info, not the WEI.

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reply to matt5
your opinion on what WEI scores your system *should* have are based on speculation as to what microsoft intended with WEI. you cannot compare CPU results with GPU results since each of these have incomparable jobs. most likely, GPU results are skewed higher because gaming cards are disproportionately powerful, even ones that are a generation or two out of date.

Your 470 was never a mediocre card and compared to even the best onboard solution, even sandy bridge, it kicks ass. It ought to. I just rebuilt an old computer for a friend. Its onboard 6150SE scores 3.3 (iirc). Your 470 is orders of magnitude better. However, it's clear that 7.9 is a cutoff. Newer, better cards like the 590 perform FAR better. If MS extended the limit out to 8.9 or 9.9, I'd expect to see the 590 score at or near those limits while your 470 wouldn't. FWIW, I have a 450 in one system and it scores 7.2.

Yes, WEI is very limited in what info it provides. I said that from the beginning. It doesn't mean it shouldn't be glanced at. the world is not as black or white as you seem to think.

edit: should also add that it appears that WEI scores are logarithmic in nature... not sure what the base is but it really does not behave linearly.
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Haha - didn't mean to start a contentious issue guys. I'd heard of WEI but before now was running WinXP. The only reason I noticed it is because it pops up on the Computer Properties screen on Win7.

My system is 4-5 years old, but the 560Ti is from last year and the SSD is new. My mobo only supports SATA-II, so the Plus was good enough for me and the price was right.

For CPU I could upgrade to a quad core since prices have come down, but with the age of this mobo I dunno if I want to screw with that since it'll be replaced sooner rather than later.

Pointless to go quad IMO on 775 unless you do encoding and more cores is more useful (despite the lower clock).
I'd still not care about WEI, your 560ti is over all = to... if not better than my 470 yet you score lower...

Everyone I know of says lol WEI, I guess some people go by it... did not even cross my mind, me, I can't see a use for it aside from... xyz is faster than zyx... if I did not know a 6850 was not as good as a 875k... WEI has helped me... past that... ???

No review anywhere that benches anything uses WEI as a measure. To each his own.

While kinda being OT lol, I had the 6850 to 3.5 on the stock HS, "getto rigged" fan lol... no issue (cept heat) so if you want to try to push her again overclocking forum

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reply to Wily_One
Yes it's good for your setup. My machine is limited to 5.9 because it does not have an SSD. Otherwise, my Q9300 + GTX460 OC would be in the 6.2-6.3 range.

Free performance boost FTW!

Exactly.