New i7 4790k with prthetic WEI score??

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m0rphs

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Hi guys/gals.

I have just build the below system.

Gigabyte z97-soc Force
i7 4790k
16gb Corsair vengeance pro red
MSI GTX970 Gaming 4G
Corsair H100i
Samsung Evo 120gb SSD
Cosrair CX750
Corsair Carbide 540

Just done a fresh install if windows 7, and run thw WEI, everything is 7.9 apart from the processor which is 5!, this seems a stupidly low score considering the CPU.

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Daz
 
m0rphs said:
Hi guys/gals.

I have just build the below system.

Gigabyte z97-soc Force
i7 4790k
16gb Corsair vengeance pro red
MSI GTX970 Gaming 4G
Corsair H100i
Samsung Evo 120gb SSD
Cosrair CX750
Corsair Carbide 540

Just done a fresh install if windows 7, and run thw WEI, everything is 7.9 apart from the processor which is 5!, this seems a stupidly low score considering the CPU.

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Daz
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Did you tamper with the CPU settings in the BIOS? If so what?

If not:

Make sure Win7 is fully updated.
Then make sure via CPU-z that the CPU is running at peak speed.
Have task manager open to make sure all the threads are running.
 
There is nothing wrong with your CPU, WEI is useless. It serves no real purpose.
If you want to see "proper" benchmark numbers try something like Passmark, 3dmark, aida64 and the likes.
 
Use a different benchmark to make sure the CPU is performing properly but I wouldn't bother looking at WEI to be honest. I've got a 4790k at home so I'll run it when I get back if I can. (I presume windows 8 has WEI? I've never bothered looking lol)
 
Snortan said:
There is nothing wrong with your CPU, WEI is useless. It serves no real purpose.
If you want to see "proper" benchmark numbers try something like Passmark, 3dmark, aida64 and the likes.
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You have to look at differently. If his windows isn't reading something correctly their is either something wrong with Windows or his hardware. It doesn't matter how useless or what purpose the WEI has, it simply the fact that something is NOT working.
 
KING_OF_SAND said:
You have to look at differently. If his windows isn't reading something correctly their is either something wrong with Windows or his hardware. It doesn't matter how useless or what purpose the WEI has, it simply the fact that something is NOT working.
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This is a good point,seeing that it only shows a 5 for his cpu means something is screwed up.
 
Master&Puppet said:
Use a different benchmark to make sure the CPU is performing properly but I wouldn't bother looking at WEI to be honest. I've got a 4790k at home so I'll run it when I get back if I can. (I presume windows 8 has WEI? I've never bothered looking lol)
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WEI is gone in 8.1
 
King of Old School said:
Yeah which is stupid i don't understand why Microsoft got rid of it, i wonder if it has come back with Windows 10
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No it's not there in the preview.

You will find you getting that score because of the Intel Speedstep thing to lower CPU speed when not in use.

Even with that disabled you will still get 7.6 to 7.8 at 4.4GHz you need 4.6GHz on it to get the full 7.9
 
just had a look in my motherboard bios, and that is only reporting 8x as multiplier also?

do I have a faulty component? as all other screen shots show 40+ multiplier even in bios!

really confused, and very tired!
 
King of Old School said:
Yeah which is stupid i don't understand why Microsoft got rid of it, i wonder if it has come back with Windows 10
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I still say it's completely useless but they didn't get rid of it completely, you can view it via the command line. You run winsat prepop in the command prompt and when finished you open powershell and run Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_WinSAT , you get the scores in there.
m0rphs said:
just had a look in my motherboard bios, and that is only reporting 8x as multiplier also?

do I have a faulty component? as all other screen shots show 40+ multiplier even in bios!

really confused, and very tired!
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Download OCCT and turn it on, it will stress your computer to the max. When it's running check in CPU-Z if the multiplier changes http://www.ocbase.com/
 
Windows Experience Index as many have already quite rightly pointed out, is a pointless, useless part of Vista/Seven and the numbers mean nothing. If you want relevant numbers and benches there are many other programs.. Cinebench for instance.
 
Snortan said:
I still say it's completely useless but they didn't get rid of it completely, you can view it via the command line. You run winsat prepop in the command prompt and when finished you open powershell and run Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_WinSAT , you get the scores in there.
Download OCCT and turn it on, it will stress your computer to the max. When it's running check in CPU-Z if the multiplier changes http://www.ocbase.com/
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Ran this and cpu-z still shows 8x and core speed just inder 800mhz rather than 4ghz???????????

stumped, even tried rolling back motherboard bios.

HELP!
 
Open the start menu > Control Panel > Power Options > Edit Plan Settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management.

Set both the minimum and maximum processor state to 100% and then check CPU-Z again.


If that doesn't change anything check your BIOS settings, clock speeds, multipliers, turbo, speedstep... if that doesn't help I guess you've got to try and test the hardware.

JR
 
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