Hardware Configuration for the Perfect 7.9 Windows 7 Score

wow i'm suprised i get a score of 6 using windows 7 build 7k

6.4 CPU - core 2 duo, e6850 3ghz
6.4 RAM - 800mhz ddr2 -4,4,4,2 * 6gb
Desktop Graphics 7.9
3D Games 6.0 - nvidia 8800 Ultra (nvidia vista drivers)
Hard Drive 6.0 - 2 * 500gb hitatchi, stripe raided

i7 920 @ 3.0Ghz 7.5
4GIG Corsair XMS3 dual channel 1600 stock (i know! but i get awesome performance) 7.5
GTX 280 stock: 6.5 - 6.5
HDD 7200 seagate sata 5.9

CPU :Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 2,66 Ghz
RAM: 4GB DDR2 800Mhz
GPU: Ati Radeon 4850 512MB
HDD: WD 400GB 16MB Cache

7,2 Proccessor
7,2 RAM
7,3 Graphics
7,3 Gaming
5,9 Hard Disc

It's almost the same as newbie

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHZ = 7.1
Memory RAM: Transcend 4x2GB@800Mhz with a Total 8GB = 7.1
Windows Aero = 6.9
Gaming Graphics: Gigabyte nVdia GeForce 8800 GT = 6.9
Primary Disk: Hitachi: Seagate 160Gb (7200rpm) = 5.9

Overall score = 5.9

Who to improve the HDD score... i have a second hard drive iam thinkng on RAID configuratiion for improving the read write time...

agree?

Hey Tosos: snap... well scores anyway

CPU :AMD athlon 2 quad 2.8ghz
RAM: Crucial 4GB DDR2 800Mhz
GPU: Ati Radeon 4850 1GB
HDD: Maxtor 250gb

7,2 Proccessor
7,2 RAM
7,3 Graphics
7,3 Gaming
5,9 Hard Disc

thinking I should of gone for the 4870, but just couldn't stretch that far.

SS hard drive would be nice but at £140~ for 80gb its not really in my price range. though as the OS ad boot drive it would be fine, last pc was on xp with 80gb boot/os + 250gb secondary.

I have the following subscores:
PROCESSOR:7.2[INTEL CORE2QUAD]
RAM:5.9[4gb]
AERO:5.0
GAMING:6.2[NVIDIA9400GToverclocked]
Data transfer rate:5.9

IS THER A WAY TO INCRESE THE SCORE FOR WINDOWS AERO? :-(

just upgraded my comp , still have a second 4870x2 to put in though and cpu is
at stock atm

CPU: 7.3 (QX9650 @ stock)
Memory: 7.3 (stock settings atm)
Graphics: 7.1 (only using single 4870x2 atm)
Hard drive 7.4 (intel mainstream ftw)

System Specs

MBD: ASUS P5Q Pro
RAM: Kingston (2 x 2GB)
CPU: Intel E8500 3.23 6M L2 Cashe
GPU: Inno3D Geforce 9600 GSO 512Ram 256Bit
HD2: Seagate Barracuda 500 GB 32M cashe

Windows Experience Index:

CPU: 7.6
RAM: 7.1
GPU: 7.2
Gaming: 7.2
HDD: 7.0

Quite happy :)

intel core I7 x980 extreme edition overclocked to 4.0 gig 7.8
6 gig ddr3 1600 mhz stock speed 7.8
1 gtx 480 stock speed 7.9 for windows aero and gaming graphics 7.9
primary hard disk, crucial 128 gig ssd and 1tb wd 7200 rpm both running sata 3 6gb/s 7.9


base score 7.8 even though i have the fastest processer available at this time, and even though it's over clocked.

the weird thing is that with all the exact same components, with the processor running at stock speed i still got a 7.8 for the processor score, but my hard drive performance was only listed as 7.4... after i over clocked my processor the processor score didn't change, but my hard drive score went up by .4 points.

7.5 processor
7.5 RAM
7.5 Graphics
7.5 Gaming
7.4 Hard Disc
Overall 7.4

i7 920@ 3.5ghz - 7.6
6gb ram 1664mhz 8-8-8-24 -7.8
xfx black edition 5970 2gb@ 850/1200 - 7.8
Gaming graphics -7.8
Samsung f3 - 5.9

The use of windows benchmarks to show true gaming performance at the top end of the hardware spectrum = 0

Still ssd's are needed in my system i think

Proc = Q9550s (7.2)
Ram = OCZ 8Gb (7.2)
GFX = MSI 460GTX Cyclone (7.5)
HDD = OCZ Agility2 60Gb (7.3)

Overall Score 7.2

Works Real good :)

This is what i got now :)

7,6 Determined by lowest subscore

Component Details Subscore Base score

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz 7,6
Memory (RAM) 12,0 GB 7,9 (Corsair Dominator 1600 MHz 7-7-7-20)
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series 7,7 (Asus HD 5970 2 GB GDDR5)
Gaming graphics 7931 MB Total available graphics memory 7,7
Primary hard disk 40GB Free (149GB Total) 7,9 (2 x Intel SSD X-25 80 GB Raid 0)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit

System
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Manufacturer System manufacturer
Model System Product Name
Total amount of system memory 12,0 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 4

Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 2012 GB
Disk partition (C:) 40 GB Free (149 GB Total)
Disk partition (D:) 244 GB Free (466 GB Total)
Disk partition (E:) 218 GB Free (466 GB Total)
Disk partition (F:) 266 GB Free (932 GB Total)
Media drive (G:) CD/DVD
Media drive (H:) CD/DVD

Graphics
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Display adapter type ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series
Total available graphics memory 7931 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 2048 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 5883 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.831.2.0
Primary monitor resolution 1920x1080
DirectX version DirectX 10

Network
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Network Adapter Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller

Notes
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The gaming graphics score is based on the primary graphics adapter. If this system has linked or multiple graphics adapters, some software applications may see additional performance benefits.

Graphics count only 1 GPU in experience index, on games it's higher with 2 GPUs Xfired.

I call * on Comment #1.7 by: Kriger. This old * did not produce those results. I think I would get better results on the HD without the cumbersome 1.5TB.

Processor: 7.7 Intel i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz

Memory: 7.8 8GB G.Skill Sniper DDR3 1600MHz

Graphics: 7.2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB

Gaming Graphics: 7.2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB

Hard Drive: 5.9 300GB WD VelociRaptor 10000rpm / 1.5TB WD Green 5400-7200rpm

cpu- itel i5 2500k quadcore
Gpu- asus GTX 560ti 1gb ddr5
hdd- 2tb seagate barracuda 6400rpm
ssd - oztec 60gb
mother board- asus p8p67 evo
ram - cosair 8GB 1666mhz 4x2g

cpu - 7.6
ram - 7.8
grapics - 7.8
gaming - 7.8
harddisc - 7.9

This is definitely rigged for processors, 7.8 for 5 GHz. 7.9 for the rest.

My baby:

Processor: Intel Core i7 2600k @ 5.0 GHz - 7.8
RAM: Patriot Xtreme Series RAM, 8 GB @ 1600MHz - 7.9
Gaming Graphics: Sapphire Radeon 6950 2GB Graphics - 7.9
Hard Drive: Crucial 120 GB SSD - 7.9

Really microsoft? 5 GHZ and I can't get even get a top score?

I think the benchmark is bs to get people to buy parts... my computer score is a 4.9 ( my cpu is the lowest score..... AMD 4050e @ 2.10 ghz x2) and i can still run almost all my games on max settings such as GTA4 GTA EFLC, BLACK OPS and much more...... and for other tasks things are almost instant when i click on them....

7.9 straight accross the board, muahaha.

2600k, 4.9ghz: 7.9
sli 590: 7.9
16g ram 2600mhz: 7.9
vertex 3 ssd sata3 6gps: 7.9

The guy Ben is a liar.
The main article says clealry that it takes 8 cores to get a perfect 7.9
Why lie?

7.9 CPU - I5 2500k @ 5.5Ghz
7.9 RAM - Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600Mhz
7.9 Graphics - Overclocked AMD Radeon 6970 in Crossfire
7.9 Gaming
7.9 HDD - OCZ Revo Hybrid Drive

well i think i did good for my first Desktop

7.2 celeron 300 oc to 366mhz
7.2 Corsair 16mb sd-ram
4.8 Graphics
4.5 nvidia tnt 16mb
5.5 WD 12 GB

Personally i think my gaming graphics still isn't really right

7.8 - i5 2500k 4.5 ghz
7.9 - g skill 1600 ram
7.8 desktop graphics xfx radion hd 6870
7.9 3d graphics
7.9 OCZ agility 3 120 gb hard drive

7.8
7.8
7.8
7.8
5.9

Processor: 3.2ghz Quad Core..... Rated 7.3
Memory: 2 x 4gb G-Skills DDR3 PC1333...... Rated 7.3
Graphics: Nvidia GTS250...... Rated 7.0
3d graphics: Nvidia GTS250..... Rated 7.0
Primary Hard Disk: Seagate 750gb Sata 6.0gb/s SSHD..... Rated 5.9

I went from a 80gb SATA 3.0gb/s Hard Drive to a 750gb SATA 6.0gb/s Solid State Hybrid Drive and it made no difference on the rating, Hard Disk rating was 5.9 on old drive and still same on this new drive

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.5ghz........... 7.1
Wintec AmpX DDr2 800 mhz 4gb........ 7.1
Single Xfx 9800gt 512mb............ 6.9 graphics and 6.9 gaming graphics
Western Digital 250gb 7200rpm........... 5.4


Not too bad for an older socket 775 Evga 750i Sli Ftw setup if i do say so myself. :)

Intel Core i5 Cpu 750 Clocked from 2,67 2.93
Ram 4 gigs of randome * .
Grapichs card :Asus Radeon HD 5750
and an shity 500GB HDD x47
7.3 Proccessor
7.5 RAM
7.7 Grapichs
7.7 Gaming
5.9 HDD

i have core 2 quad, 4gb ram, 1tb hard drive, 8800 nvidia card... but...

that's not enough?

i'm disapointed of microsoft's bench mark, and disapointed of my pc...

...I supose I need to buy more and more hardware and trash my actual one

(bad english, but hope you understand)

You people are stupid, Microsoft made this system so people like you would feel like your computer was * and you'd trash it and go out and spend all your money on * you don't really need in the first place just so you can say you have a 7.9....
Think about it, why else would they make the highest score so difficult to attain?!
Yeah that's just another marketing idea from a company that wants you to spend all your money. Be a fool all you want, I get all my college work and even gaming done on an HP laptop with an overall rating of 3.4 which is held back by my intel graphics, bottom line.....if I wanted the egotrip and bragging rights of a higher score I've got to trash my PC and spend * loads of cash on a new PC....I'll keep my money thank you very much.

CPU – i7 Quad core 260 running @ 4094.7 MHZ – This is air cooled
Motherboard - ASUS P6T LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard

Memory – 2x Patriot Viper Xtreme 12GB (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) – Total of 24.576 GB of memory

Graphics – 2x XFX GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 – In SLI mode


My Motherboard info

HDD – 1x OCZ Vertex 3 Series – MAX IOPS Edition 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) – My OS Drive for Windows 7 64bit SP1

SATA III – Rosewill RC-225 PCI-Express 2.0 low profile SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card – Thinking about getting another or switching to ICH10R onboard

Power – KINGWIN Mach 1000W ATX / BTX SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Games – Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB 10000 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive – For Games. This use to be my OS drive


My memory info

Storage – 2x Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s - I set these in RAID 1 for redundancy for my work files.

Backup – 2x Fantom Drives GreenDrive Pro 2TB eSATA External Hard Drive – These are for housing any archive data as well as stored images

cpu - 7.7
ram - 7.9
grapics - 7.9
gaming - 7.9
harddisc - 7.9

I agree with needing an 8 core to acheive the cpu score of 7.9. It doesn't seem like overclocking does the trick. I have an article about the WEI score here at http://a1goodidea.com/2011/07/19/wei-windows-experience-index/, which explains what I did to acheive all 7.9's except for the processor.

looks to be some good scores here...i personally purchased a sony laptop with an amd dual core processor and radeon graphics...I am happy with the scores based on my overall cost...feel that the sony quality is excellent even at this pricepoint...we all want the latest and greatest and fastest...it all depends on what the individual wants...if money were not object sure i'd like an amd 8 core processor amd radeon hd graphics card, etc...or nvidia gt 550 but when you want good performance with an excellent price tag...i always lean towards amd...intel is excellent; however, if i can purchase an amd athlon xp chip for 79 bucks or an intel for 229-339 i am willing to accept performance that is just as good as intel in most cases...

Wierd. you guys refreshed your scores right?

6.9 CPU AMD X3 BE @ 3.4GHz
7.4 MEM 4GB DDR3 OCZ Reaper 1333MHz
6.5 GRA *see below*
6.5 GAM nVidia GTX 260 216c 55nm
6.7 HDD Super Talent 32GB SSD

WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE x64 (Final Build; NOT RC/Beta) EXPERIENCE INDEX:

7.6 Processor
7.9 Memory
7.3 Graphics
7.3 Gaming Graphics
6.1 Primary Hard Disk (Disk Write Caching DISABLED)

FINAL SCORE: 6.1 ; REALISTIC SCORE: 7.3
(HDDs have less effect on real performance; Can not get 3.6TB Capacity using SSDs)



FULL HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS:

1x InWin "BK-623" MicroATX Chassis
1x FSP "FSP300-60GLS" 300W SFF PSU
1x Asus "Rampage II Gene" Motherboard
1x Intel "Core i7 975" CPU (@ 3.8GHz; 7GHz QPI; 1.225V)
1x Kingston HyperX "KHX12800D3LLK3/3GX" 6GB 1600MHz Low Latency XMP Ready Tripple Channel DDR3 Memory Kit (@ 1750MHz; 8-8-8-20-1N; 1.65V)
1x nVIDIA "GeForce GTX285" Graphics AIC
2x WesternDigital Caviar Green "WD20EADS" 2TB 32MB Cache HDDs (RAID0)
1x LG "GGw-H20L" 6x Blu-ray Rewriter ODD

TOTAL COST (INDIA): Approx. $3000 (INR 145,000)

Dude how you running that beasty system with only a 300watts???

seriously

He can do it because in reality you don't need a 500W psu as I've probably posted on 500x sites before. People are retarded and think more power is better when really it's not.

Although a 350W would be the ideal PSU for this system, the 300W runs it fine. FSP PSUs are good quality and actually deliver what they claim. The power is only required when the graphics card is under heavy load. Idle power consumption is just 140W.
Anyhow, I added:

2x Intel X25-E "SSDSA2SH032G101" 32GB SLC SSDs (RAID0)

so the HDD performance is now rated at 7.9 and after some very mild overclocking of the GTX285 Graphics card (RivaTuner). Both desktop and Gaming graphics are now rated at 7.4.

So the FINAL WEI is 7.4

plz do su ! i had gtx260 not the 285 like this guy and my 400psu was restarting every time i use my gpu to the max and i got a c2d atm so inda ppl go shot ur self in cs !

Here's mine:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400@ 3 Ghz: 7.3
Memory: 4 GB PNY XLR Series DDR2-800L 7.3
Graphics: MSi HD4650 5.4
Gaming Graphics: MSi HD4650 5.3
Primary Hard Disk: 500 GB Western Digital 5.8

Total Cost was only $502 though so I think I did pretty good

Core 2 Quad 6600 overclocked to 3.4 GhZ.

MSI GTX 260 896

7 GB DDR2 755 MhZ (had to, refused to run at 801 or above)

Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM 360 GB HD

ASUS P5Q PRO P45

Sony Optiarc optical

Only managed 5.9...Could it be the PSU holding me back, my PSU is a 500 watt Thermaltake Toughpower.

How can it be your PSU when it's not scored! Look at the individual subscores and find which component/s is scoring 5.9 and that is your weak point (not that 5.9 is a bad score).

cpu : core i7 920 - 7.4
motherboard : p6t7 ws supercomputer
gpu : 9800gx2 - aero - 7.3 gaming 7.3
ocz 3x2gb 1600mhz cl7 - 7.8
320gb w.d - 5.9

final score : 5.9

dude,,u have to refresh it,coz i have a core 2 duo and my marks is 5.5 and u have an i7,,,

You must be new... >_> His score is low just because he has hdd not sdd.. google it and don't be such a newb next time.

CPU : Core i7 975 - 7.9
Motherboard : ASROCK X58 Extreme
GPU : 2 HD4890 Sli - aero - 7.9 gaming 7.9
Memory: DDR3 16gb - 7.9
HDD: 128gb SSD - 7.9

final score : 7.9

had to unplug my 1tb normal HDD to get 7.9. My HDD itself drops the score to 6.3

There is no way you got a 7.9 with those cards i have tried or with 1 ssd its not possible i have tried 4 diffrent ssd's from corsair ocz kingston and finally intel to get 7.9 it took me 4 intel 160gb ssd's to reach 7.9 with a raid controller x58 wont cut it tried it actually only thing that cuts a 7.9 as far as all my testing is the new 790FXTA UD5 for amd 6gps transfer rate with the archa raid controller but i7 965 on liquid only ran 4.33 ghz ran 7.7 anymore its unstable on the x58 just wanted to clear that up but if it ran that score send me a screen shot of it and a large reward will be paypal to you a screen shot and hardware monitor on the same screen shot a very large reward will be sent to you we have spent about 9500.00 total in all parts from amd to intel to achieve 7.9 its not as simple as one would think nothing but the most advanced components will cut it we even had to wait for the 5970 in crossfire to try it out nothing NVIDIA sli not triple will cut the 7.9 as of today 2-28-10 the 5970 in crossfire sits dead on 7.9 for both aero and gaming graphics a mere 1400.00 in graphics cards and 16gb trident will cut 7.9 but 4890 his tubo + 965mhz which are rare cards remember its turbo+ not the turbo card it only hit 7.8 fried one of the cards trying to hit 7.9 like i said no easy task

well i think i did good for my first Desktop

7.2 Core 2 Quad 2.66 GHZ
7.2 Corsair DDR2 Dual XMS 2 4gb
4.8 Graphics
4.5 Crossfire Radeon 3650 HD 512x2
5.5 WD 300 GB

Personally i think my gaming graphics still isn't really right

It's definitely not right!
I've got a single ATI x1600 pro and scored 4.4/4.6

Im sorry to say but that score can be possible with 2x 4890s I currently have one and it gives me 7.5 and I would gladly post a screen shot to show anyway heres my scores in full

E8400 overclocked 3.66 ghz =6.9

Memory Corsair Dom Pc8500 4 gigs=7.0

Aero graphics Sapphire 4890 =7.5

Gaming Graphics=7.5

Primary Hard disk Western Dig Raptor 150 gig=5.5 :(

Gutted my raptor seems to drag my score so low

when i had my E8400 OC'd to 3.8 it would reach 7.0 with my ram OCZ platinum at 7.0 also. (6.8 at standard for both) when i upgraded to a quad 2.8 it was default at 7.2 for ram and CPU. when i OC'd to 3.6 it now sits at 7.4 for both.
i noticed the CPU affects your RAM score which seems to be in sync with each other just like the aero and gaming graphics for your graphics card.

GTX 570 - 7.7 for gaming and aero (i had 550ti previously and that was 7.3)
CPU: Q9550 2.8. OC'd to 3.655. - 7.4
OCZ 1333. CL8 DDR3 platinum - 7.4
HDD seagate 500 gig. - an amazing 5.9!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol.

so that leads me to think if my ram is 7.4 what would happen if i paired it with a 2600k? i bet it would rise inline with what ever that score is.

just something to think about

It's all very well people saying what processor they have, but that doesn't really tell us anything! What needs to be detailed is the speed that it is running at and whether it is overclocked, as goes for the other components, memory, graphics etc. in order to obtain their scores.

Phenom X4 955 oc at 3.4Ghz --7.4
Mushkin DDR3 8 Gigs 7-7-6-18 at 1600---7.5
HIS 3870 IceQ 512 mgb---7.0 (Its 7.1 if i overclock it a little)
HD......I have 2 old 7200 WD 250 gig hard drives raid 0....and it gave me 5.9 :(

Phenom x4 940- 3.0 ghz - 7.3
2x2 corsair ddr3 1600mhz - 7.5
Geforce gtx285- 7.3/7.3
Hd 1tb sata II 32mb-5.9

7.3 Proccessor i7 2.67
7.4 RAM crossair 1x6
7.3 Graphics GTX 285
7.3 Gaming
5.9 HDD piece of crap!

Runninng some Win7 x64 build right now not sure which one. Not too bad except for the HDD. Will get a better one when I get a proper version on Win7.
Any comments would be welcome.

Phenom 9850BE X4- 2.5ghz - 7.1
2x2 OCZ DDR2 800mhz - 7.3
ATI radeon 4830- 7.2/7.2
WD hd 320GB SATAII 8MB- 5.7

stock config. running win 7 x64, no OC'ing

build cost- $550 USD tax inclusive

here is mine

7.4 CPU: Q9550 @3.4GHZ
7.4 Memory: Kingston valuRAM PC800 2G x4
6.8 Graphic: Asus EN9800GT
6.8 Gaming
6.2 4xSeagate 250G 7200.10 in Raid0

The reason why u got 5.9 is your hard disk...

the hard disk rating is so bad i don't know why I got 5.8 too because of hard disk..

Seriously? Why is this laptop so good in comparison.. especially when scoring better than a GTX 260 for the graphics, so there's really something wrong.

Processor: 6.1 - Core 2 Duo 2.53 GHz
Memory: 6.1 - 4GB DDR3 1333 MHz
Graphics: 6.7 / Gaming Graphics: 6.7 - ATi Mobility Radeon 4670
Primary Hard Disk: 5.9 - Some 500GB 7200RPM hard disk.

CPU:6.9 (AMD Phenom 9600 BE @ 2.3GHz)
RAM:7.2 (OCZ Platinum DDR2 800MHz 4x1GB)
GPU:7.6 (ATI Radeon 4870 512MB - ASUS TOP Bios - 815MHz Core - 3.7GHz Memory)
GG..:7.6 (Same as above)
HDD:5.9 (1x Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB - 7200RPM - 32MB Cache)

*NOTES*
CPU @ Stock
RAM @ Stock
GPU, Sapphire GPU, flashed with ASUS TOP Bios
HDD, Connected via SATA II connection

*SIDE NOTES*
MOBO: MSI K9A2 Platinum (Chipset 790FX - SB650)
PSU: Corsair TX750W
GPU Drivers: 7.10 (at time of writing, although always upto date)
Cooling: Air cooling (5xCase fans - 2x80mm - 3x120mm)

CPU 7.3 amd phenomII 955 stock @3.2
Memory 7.3 - 8gb ddr2 800 generic
Desktop gfx 7.2 -ati 4770 stock
gaming gfx 7.2 - ati 4770 stock
hdd 5.9 - 2xseagate barracuda raid 0

overall i dont think too bad, this is on win7 home premium retail.

CPU: 7.3 (Q6600@3.0GHz)
MEM: 7.3 (4GB Geil Estoria@667MHz)
GRAPHICS: 7.3 (eVGA Geforce 280 GTX@Stock Speed)
GAMING GRAPHICS: 7.3 (eVGA Geforce 280 GTX@Stock Speed)
HDD: 6.2 (2xWD Velociraptor on Areca 1200 RAID 0)

HDD's have always been the bottleneck in a system...

PC
CPU: 7.7 (core i7@4.1Ghz) ( Note 3.9Ghz to 4.33Ghz(max overclock) also scores 7.7)
MEM: 7.9 (6GB Tr-channel cosair dominator at 1600Mhz speed 7-7-7-20)
GRAPHICS: 7.9 (BFG Geforce 285 Stock SLI)
GAMING GRAPHICS: 7.9 (BFG Geforce 285 Stock SLi mode dosn't affect score Stoopid!)
HDD: 6.2 (2xWD raptor on onboard intel matrix raid-0)
(Note 2 X 1TB samsumg F1 scores 6.0) Conclusion its not transfere rate but latency that gives good scores. So a small 64GB SSD would be fine to get high 7's. I will probably raid-0 3 X 32GB ssd's that u fine in da netbooks :D and see what that scores next.

Why doesnt the gaming score relfect sli? Why does an extra 430Mhz not get the system from 7.7 to 7.8? and how far am i away from it? Probably cud get 4.4 out for benching.

athlon x4 620 (@ 3.6GHz) 7.4
ram 6gb (ddr2 @ just under 800MHz) 7.4
aero / gaming ati hd 4670 both 6.8
disk 3x320GB in raid0 config 5.9 (right...)
overall 5.9

disk gives the same thing whether there is one or three. Three is about 3x the speed in practice. Not sure what's going on with that.

HDD's max throughput is improved by RAID0, however the spin-up and random i/o is pretty much the same if not less, depending on your data separation between the drives.

In my experience with x6 250GB 7200RPM HDDs in RAID0, you can get the same transfer speed (I got 320-520MB/s) as an SF2200 SSD (400-520MB/s), but the spin-up time + the latency were actually much the same as a single drive.

i have seen all system ratings in here and there are great machines above.

here is my system

7.3:intel core 2 quad q8400 2,66GHz (stock)
5.5:2GB team elite 800MHz (stock)
7.2:ati radeon 4850 512mb
7.2 same above
5.9:wester digital caviar 500GB

Alright, so i am a bit confused, and wanted to just ask and see if anyone knew the problem.

So i just built a PC and heres my scores.

Core i5 2.67 ghz - 7.4
4 GB Corsair DDR3 - 7.3
XFX Radeon 4890 Graphics - 1.0
XFX Radeon 4890 Gaming Graphics - 1.0
500GB Western Digital Hard Disc - 5.9

So my question is... Why is my graphics scored so low?
It is a very nice graphics card, as ive seen with benchmarks, reviews, and such.
My guess is because of non updated drivers?
Have not yet been able to hook it up to internet.

Well, If anyone would respond to my E-mail (krazykamper92@yahoo.com) or something, id appreciate it alot

Thanks!

You graphics card has such a low score because you don't have your drivers installed. That's what happens with any card. Go on the card manufacturer's website and download the latest drivers.

Overall Score 7.1
Processor Intel Q9300 @ 2.5Ghz 7.2
Motherboard Asus P5N-D not rated
Memory Patriot PC2-6400 2x2GB 5-5-5-12 2.0v 7.2
Graphics BFG Geforce GTX 260 MaxCore 7.2
Primary HD 2x SuperTalent SSD 32GB HD's Raid 0 7.1

I don't know for the life of me why I have such a high score but Damn I almost say i7's w/ less!@#$

XDragon

Not bad should be better

Overclocked i7 Quad core @ 3.2 ghz -7.4
12 GB DDR3 1067 - 7.6
1 GB ATI Radeon HD 5870 - 7.8
500 Gb 7200rpm - 5.9

Why is that SSDs are the only thing that will get above 5.9

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Comment #27 by: Skippy on 24 Dec 2009, 05:03 GMT reply to this comment

Not bad should be better

Overclocked i7 Quad core @ 3.2 ghz -7.4
12 GB DDR3 1067 - 7.6
1 GB ATI Radeon HD 5870 - 7.8
500 Gb 7200rpm - 5.9

Why is that SSDs are the only thing that will get above 5.9


here's my reply: because they are faster, especially multiple in raid0 (make sure your motherboard has a raid controller before you buy them at 200 euro a piece or more)

don't settle for low budget models, it's better to buy a good pair of samsung hard drives than one (i.e.) ocz solid series ssd.

got 3 vertex ssd's in my rig @ raid0 @ win7 enterprise x64. gives a 7.6 together with 1.41 fw. its mainly because my intel raid controller does not support trim. ocz is working on that with fw 1.5 (yet to be released atm)

I will tell you some secrets.

Lower scores are usually caused by the types of power supply and/or the voltage control.

Most people up there should get higher memory score than what it should be since it is directly communicating with the CPU, you shouldn't get the RAM score lower than the CPU score for sure.

I will tell you mine and you will notice something weird:

First test:
Motherboard: Asus Crosshair II
CPU: Phenom II 940 AM2+ @stock speed 7.3
Ram: Geil Black Dragon PC2 8500 4GB (1GBx4) 7.3
Graphic: Asus GTS250 512mb x2 in SLI 7.5
HDD: Samsung spinpoint SATA II 1TB 5.9
PSU: OCZ silent Xtreme 600watt

Second Test:
Motherboard: Asus crosshair II
CPU: Phenom II 940 AM2+ @3.5Ghz 7.4
Ram: Geil Black Dragon PC2 8500 4Gb 7.8
Graphic: Asus GTS250 512mbx2 SLI 7.5
HDD: same as above 5.9
PSU: OCZ ModXtreme 700Watt

Third Test:
Motherboard:same
CPU: same but @3.6ghz 7.4
Ram: same 5.5
Graphic: Asus GTS250 512mb 3 way SLI 7.8
HDD: same as above 5.9
PSU: OCZ ModXtreme 700watt

Fourth Test:
Motherboard: same but turned off cool and quiet.
CPU: same @3.6 7.4
Ram: Same 7.7
Graphic : Back to 2way SLI 7.7
HDD: same 5.9
PSU: same as above



Now, my question is, how come the last test which remained for the whole time now differ to the second test? I don't know. All i know is that it is something to do with the PSU itself OR windows index programming problem.

also, running Geil 8500 ran at 6400 (800mhz) speed by default and the score doesn't change even it is set to 8500 (1066mhz)

I have also noticed something weird happened to graphic score as well.

Don't you think it is interesting?

*7.3 Processor : Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.00GHz
*7.3 Memory : DDR2 4GB (2GBx2)
*4.5 Graphics : NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT 1GB
*6.2 Gaming : 2431MB
*5.9 HDD : 720GB 7200rpm

My PC runs on a 32-bit system. I often think Graphics, Memory and Processor don't fit each other. Well, maybe that's what to expect for a PC at $750.

My study involves some graphics work and the PC is somewhat slow. I want to improve it for better work. Anyone have any idea I can make it better? I can't afford a new PC!

This goes to jsx.

I think you should check your NVIDIA and take a decision here either you overclock it to get a better speed or you get a new card. Think about GeForce 9600GT or GeForce GT220.

If budget is a problem then look for HD 4670 no overclock needed or a more lower price HD 4550 overclocked can get you a 5.4 for aero and 6.2 for 3D.

Don't forget to plan ahead in your cooling solutions and power comsuption before you buy.

As per your hard drive, don't worry I had only see higher scores with SSD so far no HDD will get higher than 5.9(even though there some here saying more)

First PC

Processor: Intel i5 750 @ 2.66Ghz 7.3
Memory: Kingston Hyper-X 1600 DDR3-4GB 7.1
Graphics: Sapphire HD 4550 512MB 5.2
Gaming: Sapphire HD 4550 512MB 6.2
Hard Disk: Seagate 500GB 7200rpm SATA II 5.9

If it is important to say, I don't think it is, my PSU is 550.

I'm not a gamer but I just built this PC before christmas for CAD$680 (HDD not included).
May change HD 4550 for 4670 for better performance but I'm happy now with these results because I use this one for what I call "basic computing"


Second PC

Processor: Intel i7 860 @ 2.80Ghz 7.5
Memory: Kingston DDR3 1333 8GB 7.3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT220 1GB 6.7
Gaming: NVIDIA GeForce GT220 1GB 7.1
Hard Disk: Seagate 720GB 7200rpm SATA II 5.9


Price: CAD$1300 (ALL)

I built this one for a friend and she is very happy with the results too.

Motherboard: Asus M4A79 Deluxe
CPU: Phenom II X4 940 BE 7.4
Ram: G.Skill PC2 8500 8GB (2GBx4) 7.7
Graphic: Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 2GB 7.6 (Game & Aero)
HDD:Western Digital Velociraptor 320GB 5.9
PSU: OCZ ModXStream Pro - 700W

Processor - i7 920 @ 2.66ghz - 7.5
Memorry - 3 x 1gb DDR3 - 5.9
Graphics/Gaming Graphics - 2 x 9800 GTX+ - 7.3
Primary Hard Disk - Seagate 160GB 7200rpm - 5.3

Asus G2S-B1, Win 7 64 Bit

Processor : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz : 5.9
Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB : 5.9
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT : 5.7
Gaming graphics 2047 MB Total available graphics memory : 6.1
Primary hard disk 74GB Free (100GB Total) : 5.9

Overall, Determined by lowest subscore : 5.7

WIN 7 64 bit
Motherboard Asus M4A79 Deluxe
Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 810 Processor 7.2
Memory G.Skill PC2-6400 2GBx4 8.00 GB 7.5
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 4830 7.2
Gaming graphics 3579 MB Total available graphics memory 7.2
Primary hard disk Seagate ST31000528AS 1TB 7200rpm 7.4

Actually stumbled on something odd when I was swapping my RAM between computers, when I installed these 4 sticks in my PC my HD score when from 5.9 to 7.4. I was installing PC2 8500 sticks but my WEI scores dropped to 5.9 because of the primary disk score. I install the original PC2 6400 and my primary disk score jumped back to 7.4. Actually did not realize 7.4 was a high score for non-SSD drives until I was saw everyone else's scores.

I have tried everything to get above 5.9 drive rating.. No SSD, no joy...

Im done reinstalling my OS, Ill score my rig myself, its an 8.0!

A PC from yesteryear !

Win7 Ultimate 64 bit

Motherboard Asus A8N32SLi Deluxe, Bios 1409
Processor AMD FX-60 @ 2.6Ghz = 5.6
Memory 4Gb, x4 1Gb Corsair 3500LLPRO = 5.6
Graphics x2 Gainward 512Mb 7900GTX SLi (Game & Aero) = 6.0
Primary HardDisk WD Raptor 74Gb 10k (50Gb spare, 16k clusters) = 5.8

Overall Score 5.6

Not too shabby for a PC from June 2006.

The memory score was 0.1 lower with 2Gb, even though the memory is now running at 2T instead of 1T.

Platform: Apple MacBook Pro 15'
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit version.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHZ = 6.2
Memory RAM: 2x2GB@1067Mhz Total 4GB = 5.5
Graphics (Windows Aero) = 6.4
Gaming Graphics: nVdia GeForce 9600 GT = 6.4
Primary Disk: Hitachi 320Gb (5200rpm) = 5.6

Overall score = 5.5

NOTE: Graphics score was 5.3 before new driver update, after factory driver update, it became 6.4 somehow.

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit version

CPU: Intel Dual-Core 2.60 Ghz = 6.1
Memory RAM: 4DDR2x2GB Total 8GB = 6.1
Graphics (Windows Aero) = 6.7
Gaming Graphics: nVidia GeForce 9600 GT= 6.7
Primary hard disk: Hitachi 1TB = 5.9

Overall score = 5.9

NOTE: 2 VGA 9600 GT SLI, 512MB DDR3

Wow. I have a 2 year old computer and mine is a solid 6.9. Only recent upgrade was an update to SSD along with the Win 7 Ultimate.

*7.2 Processor : Intel Extreme Quad QX6700 @ 2.66GHz
*7.2 Memory : DDR2 8GB (2GBx4)
*6.9 Graphics : 2x NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
*6.9 Gaming : memory for graphics: 4095 MB
*6.9 Primary : 60GB OCZ Vertex

I had 2x Velociraptors RAID 0 before, but with a simultaneous switch to Win 7 it is hard to tell if they are what' so much faster or the OS.

I am pleased my system is balanced. People who spend $thousands and use a slow HDD just don't get it. Bigger does not equal Faster. It is like getting a Ferrari with a governor installed. Whats the point? Note that OCZ is supposed to come out with a Vertex 2 that is nearly 4x as fast as the Vertex. When it arrives, it will be a worthwhile upgrade!

Dell Inspiron 1564-B

cpu 6.0

ram 5.5

aero 4.0

gaming 5.2

hard 5.5

CPU:7.3 (intel core i5 750 @ 2.66GHz - intel Turbo Bost enabled)
RAM:7.3 (OCZ Platinum DDR3 1333MHz 2x2GB)
GPU:7.6 (ATI Radeon 4870 512MB - ASUS TOP Bios - 815MHz Core - 3.7GHz Memory)
GG..:7.6 (Same as above)
HDD:7.3 (1x OCZ Agility Series 60GB)

*NOTES*
CPU @ Stock
RAM @ Stock
GPU, Sapphire GPU, flashed with ASUS TOP Bios
HDD, Connected via SATA II connection

*SIDE NOTES*
Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2
PSU: Corsair TX750W
GPU Drivers: 10.2 (at time of writing, although always upto date)
Cooling: Air cooling (5xCase fans - 2x80mm - 3x120mm)

Okay im reading one guy here that says he runs a 7.9 with 4890 in crossfire not sli for one thats NVIDIA and one ssd runs a 7.9 hardly i have tried many many ssd's graphic cards etc here is what gave me a 7.9 finally

x4 965 black water cooled 4.37 ghz 7.9
790 FXTA motherboard the UD5P would get it fried board before even close to 4.2 ghz

2 5970 saphire 2GB cards in crossfire 7.9

16 GB G.skill trident 2000 mhz underclocked to 1866

4 count them FOUR intel x25 160GB ssd's with one ssd now i have tried them all corsair p128 ocz vertex and turbo kingston ssd none of them with just one will even break close to 7.9 spent many many hours and thousands of dollars to find this out


now im running 4 intel x25 ssd in with a archa raid controller with 6gbps transfer rate is the only way i broke into the 7.9 perfect score total price spent way too much but it sure is fun when you read 800's and write in the 600's so whoever says on here 7.9 with one ssd is out of there mind and blowing smoke up your butt Ohh also please note with me running my old cards with were crossfire 4890 HIS turbo + 965 mhz hit 7.8 nothing more so do your studying with what numbers people claim to fame total spent if i were to guess 4500.00 easy thats home built

Componente Detalles Puntuación Puntuación total
Procesador Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz 2,9 1,0
Determinado por la puntuación más baja

Memoria (RAM) 384 MB 2,0
Gráficos 1,9
Gráficos de juego Sin detectar 1,0
Disco duro principal 16GB disponibles (40GB en total) 5,3
Windows 7 Ultimate

Rig i just put together some new bits some old, running windows 7 64bit Ultimate Etd.

cpu 7.5

ram 7.7

aero 7.4

gaming 7.4

hard 5.7

i5 750 @ 3.75ghz / Scythe Mugen rev b Cooler
4gb gskill ripjaws @ 1750mhz
Asus P5P55D Evo
2 X 8800GTS SLI 512MB (VG92)
3 X SATA I HD's Combined total just under 1TB
700w CM Silent Pro PSU
CM Scout Gaming Case

This is my machine at work-wish I had this at home.

Intel BX80613i7980X Core i7 980X Extreme Edition Processor - 3.33GHz {7.9}
OCZ Vertex EX Series Solid State Drive - 120GB, 2.5", SATA II {7.9}
PNY VCQFX5800-PCIE-PB QuadroFX 5800 Workstation Video Card - 4GB GDDR3, {7.9}
Ultra X4 1600-Watt Modular Power Supply - 135mm Fan
Kingston HyperX 24GB (6 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) {7.9}

This computer is used for Engineering purposes/rendering/machining/ there is an additional external hard drive, 4 TB that is detachable. When it is attached, it reads 5.9, I'm thinking it's taking the slower of the two?

My 24/7 Desktop

CPU: 7.7 Phenom II 965 Oc @ 4.0 Ghz
Memory RAM: 7.5 DD2 4x2GB OCZ Reaper 8Gb1066 @800Mhz
Graphics Aero: 7.7
Gaming Graphics: 7.7 2x Ati HD 4890 OC @950Mhz
Primary Disk: 5.9 2x Wester Digital 1tb 7200rpm ->64Mb Cache

Comming Soon SSD...disk will rise 7.0+ ;)

My PC
I have a ACER 22 full HD monitor

Core2Duo E6600 Scores 5.9
Memory 3gig DDR2 800 5.9
GPU ATI 4870 512GDDR5 7.5
GPU Gaming 7.5
HDD 300gig SATA 5.9

It runs very well i can play any game like MW2, Shift, Mass Effect 2 all
at full detail for every setting looks stunning and in 1920 x 1080.

heres mine just started upgrading mine lol before i did my highest score was only 5.9 for my hdd everything else was around 3.5 to 3.1.

core 2 duo e8400=6.5
corsiar ddr2 4gb 800mhz =6.8 got more ram but my motherboard only has 2 ram slots
graphics card sapphire radeon hdd5570=6.8
aero=6.8
hdd sata 320 gig =5,9

I got 6.9

Cpu Score: 7.8
Memory Score: 7.4
Aero Score: 7.8
Game Score: 7.7
Hard Drive Score: 6.9

Its very fast for some reason....

Processor - 7,4
Memory - 7,5
Aero Score - 7,4
Game Score - 7,4
Hard Drive - 5,9


CPU - Phenom II x4 965
Memory - 4 gig at 1600Mhz
Graphics - XFX Radeon HD 5770
HDD - Samsung spinpoint 1TB

Is it possible to get over 5,9 HDD score without using SSD?

Hi Guys,

I recently built a new 'super computer' and it seems that the HDD is the weakest link in the
equasion.
Nixia, I reckon that perhaps a 'veloca-rapter' (10000rpm) type HDD might help the score but dont
know for sure.
Here are my scores and thoughts:

Processor: Intel i7 860 2.8GHz = 7.5
Perhaps a faster i7 or over clocking would help but 7.5 is a fairly good score.

Memory (RAM): 4x2gb G-Skill Ripjaws, 8gb total = 7.5
I think either over clocking or 4x4gb ram should increase the score.

Graphics: ATI Radeon HD5870 card = 7.8
Cant complain about that score! Although, again, overclocking or 2x5870 in crossfireX
should increase the score but 7.8 is awesome.

Gaming Graphics: card as above = 7.8
Again Awesome!

Now the let down
Primary hard drive: 1.5tb WD 7200rpm HDD = 5.9
2 options here, SSD or 10000rpm HDD, Id personaly go with the 10000rpm over SSD purely
for cost. My current HDD is at around 200gb full, I wouldnt feel comfortable with any less
than 300gb for my system drive so SSD is too expensive for this capacity where as a 10000rpm
sata drive is like half the price.

Im not a fan of over clocking so for me I wouldnt bother.
Cost wise, my new computer, including keyboard, mouse and monitor came in at around $2800AUD
if I was to build it with the higher spec components mentioned above, I think I would be adding
another $1500 to the build cost! Thats an expensive PC. In 12 months or so I would be looking to
upgrade the CPU, ram and adding another 5870 in crossfireX but not untill the prices come down a bit.

Regards
Lubie

From what I have read you can only get a 5.9 score for HDD if its a regular hard drive does not matter if you have 10 drives hooked up in raid 0

2 intel ssd in raid 0 can get a 7.9

System: Dell Precision T7500 workstation

Processor - 7.8
Memory - 7.8
Aero Score - 7.8
Game Score - 7.8
Hard Drive - 7.9


CPU - Dual Xeon W5590 @ 3.33 GHz
Memory - 96 GB at 1333Mhz
Graphics - Dual Quadro FX 4800 in SLI - overclocked using driver (197.45)
HDD - 4 Samsung 256GB SSD drives in Raid 0 using Perc 6i Raid Card

Misc:

8GB of 1333 MHz also gave me 7.8. I thought adding more would make it 7.9, but it didn't. I dont know how I can reach 7.9 since I cant overclock the memory.

The W5590 processors were the best until the 5600 series processors were released. I will upgrade to dual hex-core and see if it goes to 7.9. Since it's a Dell, I can't overclock the processors either. These would easily hit 4.5 GHz if overclocked on the stock cooling.

I overclocked the graphics cards untill they started squeeling but still no luck, I guess I need to get dual Quadro FX 5800s.

If you have any suggestions on how I can get the memory to 7.9, please email me at SHNIKU@GMAIL.COM.

96 gig of ram how the hell did you get that!

Hello,

my ratings are:

7.4 - AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE @3,4Ghz (oclock)
7.4 - CORSAIR TWINX XMS2 DOMINATOR DHX 4GB DDR2 800MHz CL5-5-5-18 (stock)
7.3 (performance for aero) - PowerColor Go! Green ATI Radeon HD5750 1GB GDDR5 (stock)
7.3 (3D bussiness and graphics) - PowerColor Go! Green ATI Radeon HD5750 1GB GDDR5 (stock)
5.9 - Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 SATA 500GB

Q6600 @ 3ghz - 7.3
Crucial Ballistix Tracer 800MHz 4GB - 7.3
Zotac Geforce 8800GT Amp - 6.9
Samsung Spinpoint F1 750 GB - 5.9

My Win 7 score is 6.9 on my custom built pc (self taught builder used zipzoomfly and newegg a lot. Used eBay for both gtx295's less than $650 for both cards.

Win7 pro 64bit

Core i7 920 oc'ed to 3.0ghz 7.4

Gskill triple channel ddr3-2000 oc'ed 1800mhz 7.9

Graphics (2)eVga GTX295's 7.9

Gaming (2)eVga GTX295's 7.9

HDD solid state Kingtons 64gb 6.9 crazy that my ssd is only 6.9
Also have a 300gb Velociraptor hdd
Asus Xonar sound card
Thermaltake case and tough power supply 850watts
Asus mobo P6T
Asus combo drive blu-ray

Processor: 3.0 ghz e8400 wolfdale over clocked to 3.8 -- 6.9 --

Memory 2x2 G.Skill 1066 clocked down to 960 or 80 cant remember -- 7.1 --

Graphics ATI XFX 4890 Areo -- 7.6--

Gaming Graphics 3D -- 7.6 --

Primary HDD 250 GB seagate sata -- 5.9 --


my Hdd score really dissapoints me and i dont want to shell out 150-200 dollards for a SSD just yet but it will just have to wait

Processor: intel core 2 duo E8200 2.66 (6.2) overclocked to 3.30 ( 6.6)

Memory: 4 GB Kingmax 800Mhz (6.6)

Graphics: Powercolor Radeon HD 3870 512 mb GDDR4 (7.2/7.2)

HDD: Seagate 160 GB (5.8) :((

Phenom II x4 965 @ 4.0Ghz 7.7

Memory 8gb Ocz Reaper DDr2 1066 7.5

Graphics HD 5870 Sapphire 1gb Oc 960/1295 7.9/7.9

2tb Wester Digital 64mb cache 5.9

Wating for a intel x-25m 160gb ssd

I was a little bit disappointed with my general graphics score - which was 3.7. I'm not sure why, Gaming graphics was 5.8. Everything else is good!
I have noticed in gameplay my graphics have lagged a bit sometimes, maybe a new graphics card is required?

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz = 7.2
Memory: 3GB DDR2 (PC2-6400) 800mhz = 7.2
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4350 512mb = 3.7
Gaming Graphics Score = 5.8
Hard Drive: Seagate 500GB SATA 7200RPM = 5.9

Can anyone reccomend something good, but not too expensive to bring up graphic and hard drive performance?

i recomend u use 4870 ati
i bought one second hand about 120 USD
it give 7.5 aero 7.5 gaming
and thats better than others specialy the expensive ones

Just started to do some upgrading now just started by getting myself a new power supply to be prepered.

Currently running:

Motherboard: Asus P5Q Premium
Power supply: 850W Corsair Modular Power Supply
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650
Memory: Corsair Dominator 2 X 2GB 1066Mhz
Graphics Card: Zotac 9800GT OC AMP Edition 512MB

CPU: 7.5
RAM: 7.5
GPU: 6.9
HDD: 5.9

Pretty out dated is the system now but I am upgrading very soon I hope!

ill gladly take those dominators of your hand>

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P
Power supply: Thermaltake 750W Modular
CPU: AMD Phenom II x2 OC'ed @ 3.7
Memory: one 2 gig stick from PNY, and one 2 gig stick from Kingston at 800
Graphix: ATI Radeon HD 5750 1gb

CPU: 6.7
RAM: 7.2
GPU: 7.3
Gaming: 7.3
HDD: 5.9

Dunno why cpu is 6.7
what do you guys think, good scores?

Toshiba u400 a13 Laptop on Windows 7 Ultimate

Processor C2D T5670 1.8Ghz (4.8)
Ram 2gb DDR2 667 (4.8)
Grafix GMA x3100 (2.9)
Gaming Grafix (3.1)
HDD Hitachi 160GB 5400RPM (5.0)



Ends up on 2.9

NAEEM.PK

MB: MSI P55-GD85
CPU: Intel i5 750 OC'ed @ 3.2 Mhz (Turbo mode @ 3.8 Mhz) watercooled by Corsair H-50
RAM: Corsair XMS3 - 4 x 2 GB - 1600 Mhz (XMP mode)
GPU: Gygabite Radeon HD 4850 1 GB Fanless & OC'ed x 2 (Crossfire mode)
HDD: Intel SSD X-25 80 GB + Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB (AHCI mode)
PSU: Seasonic X-750 80PLUS Gold

CPU: 7.4
RAM: 7.4
GPU: 7.3
Gaming: 7.3
HDD: 7.8

Final score : 7.3

Quite happy :)

After having analysed my results...I've noticed that I had not all my RAM working. Only half was operating. I've reinstalled my memory sticks in their sockets, pushing a lil harder...and now 8183MB are available and it results in a new score for the RAM of 7.7

Final result remains 7.3 due to the graphic cards (higher fanless solution available).

Desktop cpu :Amd phenom 2 955 OC to 3.6 score 7.4
Memory ocz fatality pc 6400 8 gig oc @ 900 mhz score 7.4
Grafic card Asus EA 5870 V2 7.7,7.7
Primary harddisk Kingston Ssd 5:9

Alienware M15x cpu intel I7 620 Dualcore 6.9
memory samsung ddr 3 4 gig 5.9
graphics Ati 5850 7.2 7.2
Harddisk (7200 rpm) 5.9

System Specs
MBD: ASUS M4A79XTD EVO AM3 AMD 790X (Bus: 200, NB: 2200, HT: 2200)
RAM: Kingston KHX1800C9D3K2/4G (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1800 (Freq: 800)
CPU: AMD PII X2 550BE HDZ550WFK2DGI (3.7 Ghz x 2 cores)
GPU: Zotac Geforce 9800 GT 1 GB Eco (630, 950, 1620)
HD1: Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD753LJ 750 GB (System)
HD2: Seagate ST31000333AS 1 TB (Storage)

Windows Experience Index:
CPU: 7.4
RAM: 7.5
Aero: 6.9
Game: 6.9
HD1: 5.9

This build is less than a month old and I haven't had much time to tweak it. I upgraded from an Opteron 180 Dual Core running at 2.6 Ghz and 2 GB of DDR. VERY noticeable difference.

system specs

mb : gigabyte ma785gm-us2h v1.1 updated bios to run new 6cores.
ram : (2x2gb) kingston ddr2 800mhz overclocked to run at 1066mhz.
cpu : Amd phenomII x6 1090t 3.2ghz stock (true six core)
gpu : XFX 5670 512gddr5 clocked at gpu clock - 850mhz and mem clock at 1050mhz.
hdd : wd 250gb partition to 66gb and 166gb found more stable. and a wd 1tb storage.
psu : shaw 860w v8 . cost only $35 over a year ago and its still going strong do not see why people complain about them.

windows Experience index :

cpu : 7.5
ram : 7.5
aero :7.0
game :7.0
hdd : 5.8 on 32bit on 64bit 5.9

for a machine with old and new parts it flys on3d mark 06 i get scores of 12000+ on max settings

i have this machine running 24/7 with just air cooling and each core of my cpu only gets to around 17degrees.

this machine is proof that you do not need to update every piece of your computer when buying the newest cpu just make sure your motherboard can support it.

i am looking at upgrading to a new motherboard and run ddr3 ram set soon for a better overclocking rate. can any help with what you think for a motherboard crossfire would be best bet and the best ddr3 for 1333 or 1600mhz range looking for atlest 4x2gb or even 4x4gb range for amd am3 your help would be much appreciated.

i have 2 intel 80gb ssds in raid0 on the ich10r and i get 7.9

cpu 7.5 - intel i7 860
ram 7.5 - corsair1600C8 4x2GB
aero 7.7 - HD5850
game 7.7 - HD5850
hdd 7.9 - 2x80gb intel ssd in raid0 on ich10r (p55)

Yea I was lying before. I get like 7.1 or something. I just wanted to mess with ppl's head. But you had a damn good reply! Learned a lot. Wish I was there to witness those tests. It would be really cool to actually see 7.9.

i got 4.4 on amd athlon 2.4 ghz single core
5.4 on 3gb ddr2 ram
4.9 on graphics and 6.3 on gaming (geforce 9500 gt)
5.7 on 160 gb hd and i can rn crysis warhead at 20fps on gamer settings

Well, I popped your bubble on that 8 core theory, the Intel i7-980x Extreme Edition CPU will give you a 7.9 rating with the mildest little overclocking, on the other hand I'm running 12GB of Corsair Dominator DDR3 in triple channel configuration (6x2GB) at CAS8 and I get a 7.8, as far as the disk data transfer rating, I'm guessing even a single SSD isnt going to give you a 7.9 you'll probably need 2-4 SSD's in RAID 0, I have 3 HDD's in RAID 0 and I get a 5.9 out of it, and for the graphics I probably went a little overkill....I'm running 2 EVGA GTX 465's in SLi with 8800GT Superclocked dedicated to PhysX and I achieve a 7.9 for both windows aero and gaming graphics.

IBM IntelliStation Z-PRO 9228-82U - Windows 7 Ultimate x64

2 x Intel Xeon DC 2.66ghz
8GB PC2-5300F ECC
nVidia QuadroFX 3500
1 x 73GB SAS 15k

PROC: 7.2
MEM: 7.2
GRAPHICS: 5.9
GAMING: 5.3
HDD: 5.9

WEI: 5.3

I am supprised to see a 15k SAS drive rate at only a 5.9.

Loaded latest nVidia drivers and ratings were the same.

My pc...
MSI 975x Platinum Power up edition
Intel Q6600 go 3.2Ghz(OC)
Kingston DDR2 800mhz 4x1gb
Sapphire 5770 New edition (OC)
SSD Patriot Torqx m28
PSU LC6650gp3 v2.3 650W
Score
CPU 7.3
RAM 7.3
Grafic 7.5
Gaming grafic 7.5
HDD 7.3

Am Happu with this results :) Poz!

Hi, 9.500 GT is a cheap card and 9600 is very similar too. If you got a 9800 GT thinks start changing and you will get an index of 6.0 in Windows 7 (for Aero and Games). Etc (there are a lot of newer cards in nVidea and ATI).
SALUDOS!

PLEASE HELP!.. Im getting tired of going through websites and I want to imporove my video card score (for aero), which is not that bad for 3D and gaming... but it is too low for Aero.. here are my specs:

Running Windows 7 64-bit.

MOBO: Asrock 4core 1333-eSATA2
CPU: Intel COre2 Duo @2.2GHz
RAM: DDR2 800, 1Gb x4 (Total 4 Gb)
VIDEO: nVidia GeForce 9500 GT, 1 Gb
HDD: Plenty

Results:

CPU: 5.3
RAM: 5.3
AERO: 2.9 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GAMING: 5.8
HDD: 5.8

Any suggestions? Overclocking?.. For my video card i woulg guess the score would be a lot higher.. please help me improve that.

Dell XPS M1530
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit

Processor: 6.0 (Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 - 2.40 GHz)
Memory: 5.9 (3 GB)
Graphics: 5.7
Gaming graphics: 6.0 (Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT)
Primary Hard disk: 5.1 (Western Digitial 250 GB - 5400 RPM)

System Specs
MBD: Dell XPS 420
Chipset: Intel Beachwood X38
RAM: Kingston 8 GB DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM (4 x 2GB)
CPU: QuadCore Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 2400 MHz (9 x 267)
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2
HD1: ST3250310AS ATA Device (250 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
HD2: Hitachi HDS721075KLA330 ATA Device (750 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II) *BOOT*
HD3: ST3160023AS ATA Device (160 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA)
HD4: ST3250310AS ATA Device (250 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
Optical Drive : PLDS DVD+-RW DH-16A6S ATA Device (DVD+R9:8x, DVD-R9:8x, DVD+RW:16x/8x, DVD-RW:16x/6x, DVD-RAM:12x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:48x/32x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM)


Windows Experience Index:
CPU: 7.1
RAM: 7.1
Aero: 7.1
Game: 7.1
HD1: 5.9

I think it should be optional to include the hard disk rating as I dont want solid state drives yet. Too expensive and too slow at writing.
Also I had a Sparkle 250GTS 1GB Video card before giving it to my son and going with the Radeon and my score has improved by 0.1. I thought it wouldn't be as good, let alone better (marginally granted) but I wonder if instaling the ATi drivers rather than the Dell or Microsoft ones made a difference?

heres my system:

cpu: intel pentium e2180 (not core 2 duo)@ 2.0ghz: 5.1
memory: generic 2x1gb ddr2667: 5.1
graphics(aero): nvidia geforce 8600gt 256mb vram: 6.4
graphics(gaming): 6.4
primary hard disk: maxtor 160gb 7200 rpm: 5.7

overall: 5.1

looking at my hardware, my score really is not that bad, being as i beat some guy on graphics(gaming and aero) with a lower gfx card.

I've got a 7.4 rating for 12GB of ram... what do you need to get a 7.9???

I have 8GB of G-Skill RipJaws RAM that is running at 2000MHz and I lowerd the latencys from 9-9-9-24-10 to 7-7-7-18-10 and my score is 7.9

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz
Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB 7.9
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 5.9
Gaming graphics 3071 MB Total available graphics memory 6.4
Primary hard disk 73GB Free (119GB Total) 7.9

Amd Athlon 64 x2 4800 - 5.3
4gb ddr2 ram - 7.0
Sapphire toxic hd 4850 - 7.4 - 7.4
Primary hard disk - 5.9

My rig:
Intel i7 860 2.80GHz @ 3.360GHz
4GB G Skill Ripjaw DDR3 @ 1600MHz
EVGA Geforce 470 GTX @ 700MHz
2x Seagate 320GB SATA II in RAID 0
Windows 7 Ultimate x64

My scores:
Processor: 7.5
Memory: 7.7
Graphics: 7.9
Gaming Graphics: 7.9
Primary Hard Disk: 5.9

Looks like it's time to upgrade to an SSD array ...

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz 7.5

Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB 7.9

Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 7.9

Gaming graphics 4095 MB Total available graphics memory 7.9

Primary hard disk 87GB Free (119GB Total) 7.9

CPU-7.2 Q9400 RAM-7.2 8 gigs 1066 Desktop Graphics 7.7 4890 0c 3D Games 7.7 HD-5.9

Intel core 2 quad Q9450 @ 2.66 7.2. @ 3ghz O.c goes to 7.3
4GB adata vitesta DDR2 Ram @ standard 800mhz . 7.2
Gtx260 192 core edition. Standard clocks, 7.1 (dont understand how the 216 version scored under 7?)
160Gb seagate barracuda, 500Gb Western digital Hdd. 5.9
base score 5.9 .. whole system cost around £450 so not bad overall

7.6 AMD X6 1055 4.07 GHZ
7.8 16 GIG Ram OC
7.8/7.8 Graphics 4970 OC and 48 something XFX
7.9 HDD 2X SSD 120GIG raid 0

6.7 Athlon II X2 250(OC 3.450)
7.2 4GB Patriot DDR2 800Mhz
7.0 Desktop
7.0 Gaming Graphics (HD 5670)
5.9 WD 500GB
630 Watt PSU
Less than $500 system. My first build and current PC.

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 4.00GHz 7.7

Memory (RAM) 12.00 GB 7.9

Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 @ 800mhz 7.8

Gaming graphics 7.8

Primary hard disk 2XOCZ vertex2 on Raid 0 7.9

I updated my ATI graphics drivers and my score fell from 3.8 to 1.0.

How accurate is that then?

The WEI has built-in limits. For example, if your new (as in, most recently installed) drivers don't have some part of the DirectX compatibility, your score is automatically capped. I imagine this is what has happened.

Q9550 7.3
4GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM 7.3
ATI HD4870 1GB DDR5 Graphics 7.5/7.5
200GB 7,200 SATA2 HDD 5.8

No overclocking or tweaks on the setup. Surprised I got 7.5 from the HD4870, frankly.

This article is horribly incorrect. Having 8 cores will *not* make you get a 7.9. In fact, one of the components in the CPU scoring only scales to 4 threads, i.e. 8 cores does absolutely nothing for you.

It takes approximately 6GHz to reach a 7.9. This is based off of my calculations OCing my i980x to approximately 5GHz and monitoring the increase in performance at various clock cycle thresholds.

http://dotnetnate.com/2010/07/building-a-7-9-wei-machine-canseco-style/

Processor - AMD Phenom II X6 1090 T
RAM - 6 GB Corsair
GPU - ATI RADEON HD 5770 1 GB
HDD - WD 500 GB

Score -

CPU : 7.5
RAM : 7.5
Graphics : 7.4
Gaming : 7.4
HDD : 5.9

7.6 Processor AMD X6 Oc'ed 4.01 GHZ
7.8 Ram 16 Gigs Of OCZ Gold Oc'ed
7.8/7.8 Graphics 5970 4 Gig Oc'ed 950/1250
7.9 HDD 2 X SSD 120 Gig OCZ Sata 3 Raid

Other Info
5 Monitors 3-1 Eyefinity and 1 and each side in Extend mode
5 Disk Drives (Blu-ray burners/HD-DVD Players)
7 HDDs 10.240TB/10,240 Gigs
Liquid cooling
Lcd screen
51 in 1 card reader with Lcd fan controll

CPU-Core i7 920 at 3.4Ghz (Corsair H50)
RAM- 6GB DDR3 OCZ 1333
GPU-4870 1GB
HDD-64GB crucial SSD (SATA 6gb/s, running at 3gb/s)

CPU-7.4
MEMORY-7.5
GRAPHICS- 7.5
HDD-7.3

Replaced a Seagate Cheetah 15k.5 drive, that only scored 5.9. Im hoping when I get a new MOBO or SATA III Controller disc score will go up.
Also I am going to replace ram with 2000 instead for higher clocks.

AMD 965 x4 @ 3.4Ghz - 7.4
4gb Kingston DDR3 @ 1333Mhz - 7.4
Inno 3d Green Edition GTS 250 512mb Oc'd to 740mhz core - 7.0/7.0
2x 80gb in SATA0 - 5.9

This HDD thing is killing my score - ARGHHH!!

I configured my WEI to the point that it is now at 7.2 WEI. Here's how I did it.

7.5 AMD Phenom X6 1090T 3.20 GHZ
7.5 4 GB RAM
7.2 Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5750
7.2 Gaming
7.5 SSD Hard Drive

If you want to get that 5.9 out of there I recommend a Solid State Hard Drive. I bought the 64 GB that's enough to run Windows 7 and still have enough room for programs to install. Mine was reading 5.9 previously before I decided to purchase a solid state drive. These babies bring performance to the max. Gotta get one

7.5 AMD 1090T
7.5 Wintec DDR3 1333
7.3 Graphics 2xHD5750
7.3 Gaming
7.9 Crucial 128GB SSD C300

7.8 - 4.2ghz I7 980x
7.9 - 6gb Corsair DDR3 - 1800mhz
7.9 - Zotac GTX 480
7.9 - "
7.9 - Crucial C300 SSD

Just need to tweak the overclocking on the CPU to get 7.9 on that too.

what about this:
CPU: i7 980x OCZ @4.2
RAM: 24GB ddr3 tri channel 2000mhz in 6 x 4gb configuration
GPU: Quad Crossfire (4x) ATI Radeon HD 5970
SSD: 4x Samsung SSD 256Gb in RAID 0
HDD: 2x Lenovo 15k RPM 450Gb
all on Windows Ultimate 64-bit
I just biult it so I need to update the Windows Index, but what do you guys think?

7.5 I7 875K
7.5 8 GB Kinston value RAM (KVR1333D3N9K2/8G)
6.9 Graphics POV 8800GTX
6.9 Gaming
6.7 SSD Kingston ssdnow V series 64GB

New SFF PC (but reusing GFX from old rig for now), just intalled - config is a Silverston Sugo SG07 and a Gigabyte H55M-USB3, Running 64bit Win7 Pro.

So far pleased, but fancy a new GFX card....

Mobo - Crosshair formula IV
cpu- AMD Phenom II X6 1090 t @3.2 ghz
Ram- gb skill Flare 1600 mhz
Graphics - Ati 5870 1gb card
display 52' samsung lcd
2 kingston ssd raid 0-1 config

Processor 7.6
Ram 7.6
Graphic 7.8
hardrive 7.3

Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor 7,4
Memory (RAM) 4,00 GB 7,9
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 7,1
Gaming graphics 3323 MB Total available graphics memory 7,1
Primary * disk 80GB Free (186GB Total) 6,4

Funny thing is I am scoring 7.9 with 4Gb DDR2 800MHz CL4 RAM,but its probably because of fast page file being used on 3 Seagates 7200.12 in RAID 0

7.4 - CPU: Q6600 @ 3.6GHz
7.4 - RAM: 4GB @ 800MHz, 5-5-5-15
7.7 - GFX: 1GB ATI 4890 @ 1050MHz / 975Mhz
5.9 - HHD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1

7.5 - i7 930
7.5 - 3 x 2gig Corsair Dominator 1600Mhz
7.4 - 2 x GTX 460 (i dont know if it only uses one card to get this score)
7.4 - Crucial 128GB SSD

Mine sort of:

7.6 - AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
7.8 - Team Ex-Dark PC 12800 8Gb (4x2Gb)
7.9 - Biostar Radeon HD 5770 CrossfireX (windows aero)
7.5 - Biostar Radeon HD 5770 CrossfireX (gaming)

*partial/hdd transfer rate* (most hate work, spend my weekend) :(
7.2 - Team S1 SSD 120Gb (no secondary)
7.0 - Team S1 SSD 120Gb (with WD Raptor)
6.4 - Team S1 SSD 120Gb (with WD Caviar)

6.3 - WD Raptor HDD 300Gb (no secondary)
6.3 - WD Raptor HDD 300Gb (with Team S1)
6.1 - WD Raptor HDD 300Gb (with WD Caviar)

5.9 - WD Caviar HDD 1Tb (no secondary)
5.9 - WD Caviar HDD 1Tb (with Team S1)
5.9 - WD Caviar HDD 1Tb (with WD Raptor)

and...
7.0 - All storage plugged in (Team S1 as primary, WD Raptor and WD Caviar)
6.3 - All storage plugged in (WD Raptor as primary, Team S1 and WD Caviar)
5.9 - All storage plugged in (WD Caviar as primary, Team S1 and WD Raptor)

*others*
- Biostar TA890FXE
- Cooler Master SP 600w
- all drivers at the latest version

WD Raptor isn't make significant improvement in my desktop system based on WEI. But based on MEI (my experience index, lol...) it offer balance power for both gaming and graphic design. When you goes for gaming, SSD is the first choice. But when it goes to graphic design, 10000rpm HDD is the ultimate solution. It's because SSD read speed is higher than HDD (10k rpm) and it is great for gaming, but the write speed is lower than HDD (10k rpm) and it is best for disk write process (photo/video editing or installing application, etc).

I want to make it clear to everyone that WEI on hard drive isn't a true experience. Crysis warhead (1920x1080, enthusiast setting, 4xMSAA) in my system running at 31fps (Team S1), 30fps (WD Raptor) and 28fps (WD Caviar). That makes another $300 isn't worth, right? How about upgrading the GPU that can increase another 15fps?

My best solution are, 7200rpm HDD for gaming and mainstream graphic application, 10000rpm HDD for gaming and more intense graphic application. Instead of using it on desktop, I prefer use the SSD on my notebook since it significantly increase the booting process, faster when running multi applications, more secure protection and less power consumption.

So, never stuck on those WEI. Use your own experience index...

*note:
It isn't Western Digital marketing campaign. LOL...

Average-5.8
Base score-5.0

Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II N620 Dual-Core Processor 6.3
Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB 5.9
Graphics ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 5.0
Gaming graphics 2173 MB Total available graphics memory 6.2
Primary hard disk 218GB Free (277GB Total) 5.6

7.1, Q6600 2.4 Ghz
7.1, 4 Gig DDR2 800 Mhz
6.9, 9800 GTX Evga
5.9 WD SATA HDD 500 Gig

Reading people are having a hard time getting 7.9 on CPU I would try to run W7 professional or higher on OS (anything lower only supports 1 CPU socket) with duel socket CPU mobo that has 2 Xeon 6 core CPU's installed on it with socket 1366 or higher running at 3 Ghz stock. If that doesn't give you 7.9, then I wouldn't know what would.

You cant get decent HDD ratings with a RAID

i7 930 @ 4.1ghz
Corsair dominator-gt 1854mhz 7-8-8-22 6gb
2x gtx 460 SLI 1GB 875mhz
2x 500gb wd black 32mb cash raid 0
rampage 3 extreme

cpu 7.7
ram 7.9
aero 7.9
gaming 7.9
HDD 6.0

Six Core 970 @ 3,2GhZ : 7.9
Vengeance 2x4GB DDR3 : 7.7
nVidia GeForce 450GTS : 7.1
Gaming : 7.1
Revo-Drive RX2 240GB : 7.9

The Revo-Drive is really the fastest I've ever seen!

I'm gettin a score of:
7.8 - AMD 1090T X6 core @ 4.2GHz
7.8 - 4GB G.Skill performance RAM
7.9 - 1GB GTX460(FTW) graphics card(DirectX 11 )
6.0 - 2TB HDD (western digital).

This is not far off what I have but I get 7.5 across the board except for my primary hard drive, which I get an instant 7.9 for.

It is of course a RevoDrive PCIe 120GB read/write - 500mb/s

Maybe it is the motherboard playing it's part, nobody seems to list theirs, but it is what hangs everything together.
this is mine.
Motherboard Asus Crossfire IV
Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor 7.5 think it was running about 3.8
Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB 7.5 - A lot does not help, also G-Skill performance RIPJAWs
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 7.5 - 2GB Gainward Golden Sample
Gaming graphics 4095 MB Total available graphics memory 7.5
Primary hard disk 50GB Free (112GB Total) 7.9 RevoDrive
Windows 7 Ultimate
7.5 Determined by lowest subscore

7.4 - Athlon 640 II X4 3.0GHz stock
5.5 - Corsair gaming PC-800, 400MHz 2GB DDR2 XMS2 ram (I'm gonna upgrade to quailty 8GB DDR3)
7.5 - ASUS HD ATi 5770 512MB
7.5 - ASUS HD ATi 5770 512MB
5.9 - WD caviar blue 500GB 7200RPM 16MB cache.

500W OCZ ModXstream

coolermaster 430

Stupid ram..

Thinking of upgrading my mobo to a crosshair formula IV to oc my cpu without power issues since it's 95W board and to crossfire, will get another hd 5770 for crossfire, maybe water cooling and revo drive XD

My lowest subscore is is 6.2 from my hard drives. I have 2 WD Velociraptors in RAID 0 on a HighPoint RocketRaid 3510 PCI-e 8X hardware controller. I created 2 partitions the RAID, 80G and 200G. My operating system is on the first partition. I'm not sure why my subscore is so low. It seems it would be a lot higher. Is there something that needs to be set up better, like maybe something other than the default stripe size? My next lowest score is CPU of 7.4. AMD Phenom 9950 BE at 3Ghz. Motherboard is a ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe

Can anyone think of anything?

My rig:
Intel i7 920 D0@ 4.2GHz
12GB Corsair Dominator@ 1600MHz
Asus 5870 @ 950MHz
2x OCZ Vertex 2 60GB in RAID 0
Windows 7 Pro x64

My scores:
Processor: 7.7
Memory: 7.9
Graphics: 7.8
Gaming Graphics: 7.8
Primary Hard Disk: 7.7

Processor: 7.9
Memory:7.9
Graphics:7.9
Gaming:7.9
HDD:7.9

I Have 4.8 Good ?????

7.6 - Core i7 940 @ 3.6 ghz HT enabled
7.9 - Mushkin DDR3 1640 mhz 7-7-7-21-1T
7.5 - XFX GTX 295 @ stock (SLI, SinglePCB)
7.5 - "
5.9 - WD HDs Raid 0 (2x 250 GB @7200 rpm)

Mobo: Gigabyte EX-58 Extreme rev 1.0
PSU: 1k Watts Superflower Amptac

an SSD would improve my lowest score drastically

here comes from a vaio laptop:
7.0 - i7 920 -CPU
7.4 - 8gb - RAM
6.4 - Desktop Graphics
6.4 - Nvidia GT 330M - 3D Games
5.9 - 500 gb Samsung 5400 rpm - Hard Disc
Not too bad for a laptop.

I'm kinda lost here, as to what to do. I'm getting a windows score of:

Precessor: Phenom 9950 BE @ 3Ghz - 7.3
RAM 7.4
Graphics 7.6
Gaming Graphics 7.6
Primary hard disk 6.2

Motherboard is an ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe

I'm running a High Point RocketRaid 3510 hardware controller on 2 WD velociraptors in RAID 0. Shouldn't this score better than a 6.2? I have 2 partitions on the RAID. The first is 80G second is 200G, with the operating system on the first partition. I can't remember what the default stripe size is, but could that be the issue? It seems that much less hardware gets almost as good of a score that I do. Something just doesn't seem right. But when I install Windows it screams.

HD Tune Pro on default settings says I have a read of about 225MB/s average for the first 80G portion of the drive. Access Time is 7.3ms. Burst Rate is 809MB/s. Average for the whole drive is 200MB/s. Not sure if this is really good or what?

I'm not worried about any other score except my Hard Drive score. That's where most of my investment is right now for speed. Anyone have any ideas on how to improve things? Or is it the best it's going to be?

I got a score:
CPU - 7.5
RAM - 7.8
Aero - 7.6
Gaming - 7.6
SSD - 7.7

Specs:
i7-950 3.06ghz
3x g.skill. pi 1600mhz (7-8-7-24) XMP
Palit GTX 460 Sonic Platinum
Intel SSD 80gb x25M
ASUS Sabertooth x58

Just built mine

Intel Core i5 760 @ 4.13Ghz OC'd 7.4
Gskill RipJaw 2x4GB 7.5
MSI N460GTX Twin Frozr II 7.4
OCZ Agility 2 60GB SSD 7.1
Total Score 7.1

impossible....only 4GB RAM DDR3 and your rating 7.2 ...impossible.......

i have 4 gb ddr3 1333mhz (2x2gb) and i have 7.2 windows rating :) is not imposibble :D

win 7 64 bit
core i5 2500k o.c. 5 ghz 7.7
memory 8gb ddr3 1600 7.8
graphics radeon 6850 o.c. 7.8 (o.c.920/4650)
gaming radeon 6850 o.c. 7.8
ssd corsair force 60gb 7.7

overall : 7.7

CPU 1090T 4.06gz 7.6
Ram 2000mhz 7,10,7,24 Ht link 3000 7.9
viedo 460 hawk sli =7.9
HD ocz revo 750mb read/ write 7.9

Here's my rig :)

Component Details Subscore Base score
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz 7,6 7,6
Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM) 12,0 GB 7,9
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series 7,7
Gaming graphics 7931 MB Total available graphics memory 7,7
Primary hard disk 40GB Free (149GB Total) 7,9
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

7.5 rating
evga 480- 7.9
OCZ SSD 1tb PCIE- 7.9
4gb ddr3 2133 -7.5
amd 3.3ghz 6 core -7.5

Processor: i7 2600k overclocked to 4.7ghz - 7.8
Memory (RAM) - GSKILL 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 - 7.8
Graphics - 2xgtx460s in SLI, and gt240 PHYSX - 7.8
Gaming Graphics - 7.8
Primary Hard Disk - OCZ VERTEX 2 60GB - 7.6

7.7 CPU - Core i7 2600, 3.4-3.8 Ghz
7.7 RAM - 16GB DDR3 Rip Jaw Quad-Channeled
Zotac Geforce GTX 460 7.5 - 7.5
HDD 250 GB 5.5

processor i7 2600k sandy bridge oc 4.0ghz 7.7
mem 8 gb gskill 2133 7.9
graphics evga gtx 570 7.9
gaming graphics 7.9
1.5 tb seagate 7200 5.9

i have
prossecer - dual core @ 2.5 ghz
ram - 2 gb
graphic card- nvidia ge force 8400 gs

but my score is onlu 4.0. what should i do.

Get a new pc!

very nice suggestion.....! hahaha

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz 7.6 5.9
Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB 7.9
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 7.9
Gaming graphics 3835 MB Total available graphics memory 7.9
Primary hard disk 7GB Free (98GB Total) 5.9

I think the weekest point mostly is HDD.
It is the most cost not efficient thing to change. SSD cost a lot and have quite small capacity. But i must say they are blady hell fast. I didnt expect when i made raid on them.

Intel i7-990X - 7.9
Corsair XMS3-2000 4 x 4GB - 7.9
Sapphire HD6990 - 7.9/7.9
Intel X25-E SSD x2 - 7.9

Had to put out my Segate Barracuda XT 3TB to get that base score.

Processor (i7 960 @ 3.2Ghz) - 7.6 Score
Memory (12Gb DDR3@2000Mhz Corsair Vengeance) - 7.6 Score
Graphics (Gigabyte GTX480) - 7.9 Score
Primary Disk (80Gb PCI-E OCZ Revodrive) - 7.9 Score
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Mobo - Asus Rampage 3 Extreme

Haven't clocked the memory or chip yet but still impressive scores :)
GFX to be swapped for dual GTX590's and another 12Gb kit of ram to go in.

Getting close to a perfect 7.9
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 990 @ 3.47GHz 7.8 7.8
Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM) 18.0 GB 7.8
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 7.9
Gaming graphics 4095 MB Total available graphics memory 7.9
Primary hard disk 21GB Free (149GB Total) 7.9

WINDOWS 7 ENTERPRISE x64 EXPERIENCE INDEX:

7.8 Processor
7.9 Memory
7.9 Graphics
7.9 Gaming Graphics
7.9 Primary Hard Disk

7.8 OVERALL



FULL HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS:

1x SuperMicro "CSE-743TQ-865B-SQ" Case
2x SunnyTek "ST-1040SS" Mobile Racks
2x SuperMicro "FAN-0104L4" Fans
3x Generic 4-Pin Fan Extension Cables
1x SuperMicro "PWS-865-PQ" PSU
2x Generic 6-pin to 8-pin PCI-e Power Cables
1x Asus "Rampage III Extreme" Motherboard
1x Intel "Core i7 990X" CPU (4.05GHz; 7.2GT/s QPI; 1.18125V)
2x Kingston HyperX "KHX2250C9D3T1K3/6GX" Memory Kits (1800MHz; 9-9-9-27-1T; 1.64300V)
1x Kingston "KHX-FAN" Memory Fan Kit
2x ZOTAC GeForce GTX 590 "ZT-50501-10P" Graphics AICs
2x OCZ Vertex 3 240GB "VTX3-25SAT3-240G" SSDs
6x Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB "CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1" SSDs
1x Intel "RS25DB080" RAID CARD
1x Intel "AXXRSBBU9" RAID BBU
8x Hitachi Ultrastar "HUA723030ALA640" HDDs
1x Sony Optiarc "BD-5300S" BD-RW ODD
1x hp "LP3065" Monitor
1x Logitech Media Combo MK200 "920-002693" Keyboard and Mouse Bundle



OTHER DETAILS:

QPI/DRAM Core Voltage: 1.23750v
IOH Voltage: 1.15275v

Processor: Calculations per second 6,3
Memory (RAM): Memory operation per second 6,3
Graphics: Desktop performance for Windows Aero 4,0
Gaming graphics: 3D business and gaming graphics performance 5,9
Primary hard disk: Disk data transfer rate 5,9


I'm gonna cry, my computer is so slow ;(
I'm playing games only on 640x480 :(

cpu 7.4 amd 940be
ram 7.4 8gig ddr2 ozc sli ready pc6400
desktop grap 7.4
game grap 7.4 gtx275 (8800gts physx)
HDD 5.9 500G wd cav blue
MOB Asus M4N82 Deluxe-for info only

I'm thinking not bad for my first build!
cost me less than £240 :-)

I have;
CPU - Core I5 750 (OC to 4.0GHz): 7.5
RAM - 8GB G.Skill RipJaw 2000MHz: 7.9
GPU - 2x ATI HD5770 in CrossFire: 7.4 & 7.4 (Score stays the same with 1 card in)
HDD - Seagate Barracuda 1TB, 1.5TB & 2TB: 5.9

I am considering buying a SSD. SATA 6Gb/s is supported on my MB, so I am looking at the Corsair Force Series 3 120GB and depending on the price I might get 2 and put them in RAID.

So what do you think, please comment.

when i had 2x8800gts's (g80 core) sli my score was 7.1 switch the sli off score dropped to 6.9 so am not sure if this is true?

Just remember that I am running ATI cards and not Nvidia... So SLI vs. CrossfireX

Ok, so I decided to bay the Corser force GT 120GB SSD - 555MB Read & 515MB write.
I cant wate for it to be deliverd!

Ok, so my rig is up and runing. I do not understand what happend to the rest of my scors, but I am in the proses of OC'ing so will se if it helps.
New scors:
CPU - 7.3
RAM - 7.5
GPU - 7.2
GPU - 7.2
HDD - 7.9

Now, to OC the CPU from 2.66GHz to my norm of 4.1GHz - RAM to 2200MHz - GPU I'll have to see what i can do to.

But thanks to my new corsair force GT 120GB my new Base score is now 7.2... Determined by my 2X ATI HD5770 in CrossFire...

CPU - 7.5 OC to 3.8GHz(BCL=200)
RAM - 7.8 8GB OC to 2000MHz
GPU - 7.4 x2 ATI HD5770's
Gaming - 7.4 "
HDD - 7.9 Corsair Force Series GT 120GB

I got my RAM to 7.9.... :)

7.5 AMD x6 1055 2.8ghz
7.5 ATI Radeon 5770 1gb
7.5 8 gb 1333mhz dual channel Ram
7.5 Gaming
5.9 HDD Seagate

asus p7h55-m/usb3 mobo
corsair 650 watt power supply
intel core i5 dual core
gigabyte geforce gtx 460 grapichs card
8 gig of ram corsair 4x 22gb at 1600 mhz 1.5 vper stick
ocz ssd drive vertex 3
lg bluray drive

scores are processer 7.3
memory ram 7.3
grapics aero 7.7
3d gaming grapics 7.7
data transfer 7.9

chuffed to bit with pc and 3d gaming effects on my panosonic 50 inch 3d tv are amazing
with nvidia 3dtv play . playing devil may cry 4 at the mo and its just out of this world

Processor 7.6 AMD Phenom II X6 3.92 Ghz
Memory 7.6 8 GB DDR3
Graphics 7.9 X2 Crossfire HD6970
Gaming Graphics 7.9
Primary Hard Disc 7.9 X2 Raid 0 OCz3 SSD 120 G

I think the windows experience index is cracked
this is my system
windows 7 pro 64x bit
Intel core i7-980 extreme 3.3 ghz and over-clocked 10% to bring it up to 4.2 ghz
liquid cooled
12 gigs of ram a
60 gig corsair ssd and a 2nd 1tb hhd drive.
nvida GTX 460-3D 2 gig dual graphic card pushing 4 gigs of graphic memory
also liquid cooled
DirectX-11
100 watt 3D 5.1 Yamaha Sound blaster sound card

when I first got this machine last year the windows experience index was 7.4
today the windows experience index says its 7.1 after I did a driver upgrade for my samsung 3d monitor.

the windows experience index says I'm running Direct X 10 which clearly wrong.
th e windows experience index and it says my ssd drive is rated at 7.1

how does a rating go from 7.4 to 7.1 with a driver upgrade to a monitor.

I think the whole windows experience index is cracked.. there has to be a better place to get your computer benched mark more accurately.

because windows experience index is not even close to be accurate.

I know what you mean

I7 990X 3.47GHZ

24GB DDR3-1600 GSKILL PC3-12800

OCZ Agility 2 Sata II SSD 240 GB

Radeon HD 6770 1GB GDDR5

Ultra X4 1600Watt PSU

Gigabyte G1 Assassin AKA G1 Killer Motherboard

COOL MASTER HAF XL-ATX


Processor 7.8
Ram 7.8
Graphics 7.4
Gaming Graphics 7.4
Hard drive 7.3


Now I can understand my rating for the graphics card/ gaming b/c i settled with that card to hold me over to the 7990. I can understand the ssd too as that was the oldest or first thing i purchased last year. BUT I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I WOULD GET A 7.8 FOR THE CPU as its the Top of the product line EXTREME SERIES. so My question is what is 7.9? even sandy bridge hasn't released its extreme 7's as least not to my knowledge!

7.8 CPU-Intel i7 2600K @ 4.7 GHZ
7.9 MEMORY- corsair DDR 3 1600 8GIG
7.7 VIDEO- ATI 5970 Radion Black
7.7 Gaming- " "
7.9 Kingston Hyper X 120 SSD Drive

update on my rig
cpu 7.4 amd 940be (7.3 at 3ghz, 7.4 at 3.4ghz still 7.4 at 3.75ghz cant seem to get any higher stable on air i figure 7.5 at 3.8ghz?)
ram 7.4 8gig ddr2 ozc sli ready pc6400
desktop grap 7.8
game grap 7.8 2X gtx275 sli core at 675 (stock 7.7 at 633)
HDD 5.9 500G wd cav blue

psu xfx true 750w core edition
MOB Asus M4N82 Deluxe-for info only.

A SSD is needed my weak point but costing a £1 per gig give or take exspensive as i would want a 320gig at least!!

cpu [Intel i5- 2.5 gHz dual-core] = 7.1 of
7.9

ram [4 gb ddr3] = 5.9 of
7.9

gtaphics [Windows Aero/Intel HD] = 5.6 of
7.9

gaming grphs [Intel HD 3d, etc] = 5.2 of
7.9

primary hdd [250 gb eSATA w/ 7,200 rpm/s] [[data rate per sec] = 5.9 of
7.9

----UPDATE----
clocked my ram to 880 5-4-4-15 so now 7.5

Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD4 mobo
i7 2600k Sandybridge overclocked to 4.9gig
Corsair H80 CPu cooler
8GB corsair vengenance ram
Corsair Force 3 SSD
2 x Gtx 460 SLi OC
XFX Core Pro 650W PSU
WIE 7.9 all around :o)

in my opinion if your scoring 6 or above your good to go mine is
7.5 cpu i5 2500k
7.6 ram gskill ripjaws 8gb 1300mhz
7.3 aero
7.3 graphics radeon 6770
5.9 hd some seagate 1tb junk

processor 7.0 intel core i5-2430--2.4ghz

ram 7.4 8gb not sure of speed

graphics 4.9 intel hd 300

gaming 6.3 ati amd radeon hd 6470m

this is a dell n5110 laptop stock 100% what do you think??? it was free dell sent it as an exchange to a inspiron 1525!!!!!!!

7.4 AMD Phenom II x4 820 OC 3.3GHZ
7.6 Adata XPG DDR3-1600 3x2gb (6gb ram)
3.6 on Aero Integrated HD 3300
5.5 Gaming
5.9 HDD 1.5tb 5400rpm

Just ordered a 4890 for $70, so this whole computer cost me less than $300 to build.

My other desktop scores

7.1 Q6600 2.4ghz
7.1 6GB DDR2 6400
5.1 Aero 7800 GTX
5.8 Gaming
5.9 HDD 250gb 7200rpm

Computer my neighbor threw away.
6.3 E2140 1.6ghz OC to 2.9ghz
6.4 8gb 4x2gb DDR2-800
3.5 Aero PNY Geforce 8400gs
5.3 Gaming
5.3 80gb + 60gb Hard drive

i7 2700K------> 7.8
16GB memory Gskill---> 7.9
MSI 560GTX TI------> 7.9
Crucial M4 SSD 128GB---> 7.9

7.4 i7-2630qm (2.00Ghz)
7.6 8GB 1333Mhz DDR3 Ram
6.7 2GB Nvidia 540M Graphics (Desktop)
6.7 2GB Nvidia GT540M Graphics (Gaming)
5.9 640GB Sata HDD

My rig:

7.4 CPU - QX9650 Extreme OC 3.6Ghz (Air)
7.4 RAM - 1066Mhz Corsair Dominator 8Gb DDR2 5-5-5-12
7.9 for both Desktop Graphics & 3D Games - EVGA GTX570 Superclocked (single)
6.3 Hard Drive - RAID 0 using 4 x Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid 2.5in drives

Base MB - Gigabyte EP45-DQ6
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate

Using WD Caviar Black Drives I was not able to move passed 5.9 on the drive score.

Ati 4200 HD motherboard and MSI R6670 MD1GD5 video card share video support it give windows 7 a 7.1 score but when I engage the MSI software it drops to 5.9 does anyone know why?

i my rating is 7.9

7,6 proccessor (i7 2600k)
7,6 RAM (ddr3 16 gb (4x4))
7,9 graphics (radeon HD 6950 2gb)
7,9 gaming
7,8 ssd (128gb)
that's my score

u lie bro ive got the same specs but cpu 7.8 and hdd 7.4

CPU- AMD Athlon II x3 - 6.8
4gb RAM - 7.2
Power color 6850 - 7.7 on both
HDD WD500AAKS - 5.9

Processor = 7.8
Memory = 7.8
Graphics = 7.9
Hard Drive = 7.8

I7-2600k @ 4.5Ghz, Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz Ram, GTX 580, 120GB OCZ vertex 3.

Windows 7- 64Bit
cpu-7.9 I2500K OC
Ram-7.8 1600mhz ddr3 8G
Graphics-7.5 Evga STX550Ti SC
Hard drive- 7.9 Crucial (2) -128GB SSD with Seagate 7200Rpm 1TB

Amd 8 core 3.6 = 7.8
32 gb ram = 7.8
Graph = 7.3
Gaming graph = 7.3
Hard drive ssd 60gb = 7.9

AMD FX 6100 3.3ghz X6 six core
KINGSTON DDR3 1300MHZ 6gb (1x2 1x4)
ATI HD 4890 VAPOR-X 1gb
HDD SEAGATE 1TB SATA III


CPU:7.3
RAM: 7.4
GRAPHICS: 7.6
GRAPHICS G: 7.6
HDD: 5.9

AMD Phenom II X4 3.0ghz 7.3 OC 3.8ghz 7.5 7.5 3 years old
Corsair Vengeance 8gb 1600 7.5 OC 18-- something 7.6 $60
EVGA Nvidia GTX 560 non ti 810mhz stock 7.7 OC 910mhz 7.8 1010mhz 7.9 $165
Gaming Graphics 4095mb 7.9
Samsung 640gb HD 5.9 3 years old
Cougar full tower case $95
Asus M5A97 AM3+ Mobo $95
Antec Green 500w $60

Just made it wasn't trying to reach 7.9 all around just wanted the GPU to be pretty close. PS3 * the bed and i'm tired of putting time and money into it so i joined the PC gaming world and i'm loving it. I wont buy a SSD till i can get a 512gb one for around $300-$400. Witcher 2 anyone