WEI - 2600K Dropped

[Cyanide89]

When I had Windows installed on my regular HDD, my Windows Experience Index rating was a 5.3 due to HDD speeds. EVERY other rating was a 7.9 except my CPU which was at 7.8.

Now, I recently reinstalled windows onto my SSD and now my Windows Experience Index rating changed. Every rating is 7.9 now except CPU which is at 7.5 and Memory which is 7.6!

WHY did they drop so much?!

BEFORE:

Processor - 7.8

Memory (RAM) - 7.9

Graphics - 7.9

Gaming G - 7.9

Primary HDD - 5.3

AFTER:

Processor - 7.5

Memory (RAM) - 7.6

Graphics - 7.9

Gaming G - 7.9

Primary HDD - 7.9

 

[S_I_N]

cause wei is bogus and wont let anything get 7.9 for full score lol I saw similar when i went ssd

Component Details Subscore

Base score Processor Intel® Core™ i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz 7.8

7.8 Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB 7.9

Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 7.9

Gaming graphics 4095 MB Total available graphics memory 7.9

Primary hard disk 82GB Free (119GB Total) 7.9

Windows 7 Professional

I'm thinking its as others things become better it degrades the other scores

 

[Cyanide89]

But my ram is 16Gb Corsair Vengeance... you'd think it would be 7.9.

And I didn't change my CPU at all... not that the WEI matters but I thought I could get it maxed.

For fun.

 

[yassarikhan786]

The release of new hardware is probably the cause of the decrease.

 

[Cyanide89]

The release of new hardware is probably the cause of the decrease.

I don't understand. :s

 

[yassarikhan786]

I don't understand. :s

The new Sandy-Bride E and high end Ivy Bridge CPU's will have the 7.6+ WEI scores because they will most likely be better performers than the 2500k/2600k

 

[Cyanide89]

The new Sandy-Bride E and high end Ivy Bridge CPU's will have the 7.6+ WEI scores because they will most likely be better performers than the 2500k/2600k

I thought that was why the WEI went from 5.9 max to 7.9... I expected the new hardware to raise it to 9.9.

 

[yassarikhan786]

I thought that was why the WEI went from 5.9 max to 7.9... I expected the new hardware to raise it to 9.9.

I'm not too sure, I'm only guessing.

 

[Cyanide89]

Well, I just overclocked it to 5.0ghz and it says 7.8 now. Very disappointed.

 

[Ya93sin]

I changed one number on RAM timing and it went up to 7.9, I think from 7.8, it's misleading anyway.

 

[Cyanide89]

Oh well. Appreciate the info.

 

[Lollipop]

7.9 is the highest for some reason

 

[Cyanide89]

7.9 is the highest for some reason

It's like I posted before, it seems when a new OS or hardware is released, the score maximum is changed rather than having the current hardware scores drop. :s

 

[badtaylorx]

its so we keep pushing the envelope.....7.8= there is allways some/one/thing better!!!