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gotta agree with you there.
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I don't trust the WEI. It's based on your lowest score. Why not average the score?
Actually this is not at all a rating of your true Windows Experience, but rather a rating of your combined hardware specs. They don't take into account fighting with windows UI like the Metro or whatever they are calling it now. They forced you ( out the box) to hit many more buttons to do the same things you can do in Win 7 for fewer buttons. This ruins the Windows Experience for me.
I'm going to do everything I can to make Windows 8, work like Windows 7. I may be resigned to deleting this partition and installing Windows 7 instead if I cant get this thing to take all my tweaks the way I need it to.
Therefore the WEI is a sham and not ever to be trusted. We need a better rating system, one that takes real time user experience into account that also includes ease of use and operating system design. The WEI I believe was designed on a faulty benchmark scheme more for bragging rights than any real tally of user experience. They don't even detail how they arrive at those numbers for each area.
As shown in z3r010's post, Microsoft assumes incorrectly that if you have better hardware with higher specs you will have a better Windows Experience. This is BS and doesn't take the faulty design/ease of use of the operating system into account at all. The WEI is nothing more than psychological manipulation to try to get more people to buy more expensive hardware IMO. Certainly looks that way to me.
I have high 6's and 7's with one 5.9 and my lowest 4.6 for desktop graphics - Are you freaking kidding me? My AMD A-8 quad core with 8 gigs of ram coupled with my discrete ATI Radeon 7640G with 2 gigs of video ram makes this puppy sing and dance. Desktop Graphics low score? I can play FarCry3 on high settings, do video editing, and have Firefox open with 300 active tabs and no slow downs at the same time. This is out the box, I have yet to make major tweaks like permanently disabling tons of unneeded Microsoft services - I'd give my rig a solid 8.0 for user experience and I'd be Right. ( I auto logon and bypass the lock screen/start screen/ metro screen with Classic Shell) - The WEI Is a Lie.
Actually this is not at all a rating of your true Windows Experience, but rather a rating of your combined hardware specs. They don't take into account fighting with windows UI like the Metro or whatever they are calling it now. They forced you ( out the box) to hit many more buttons to do the same things you can do in Win 7 for fewer buttons. This ruins the Windows Experience for me.
I'm going to do everything I can to make Windows 8, work like Windows 7. I may be resigned to deleting this partition and installing Windows 7 instead if I cant get this thing to take all my tweaks the way I need it to.
Therefore the WEI is a sham and not ever to be trusted. We need a better rating system, one that takes real time user experience into account that also includes ease of use and operating system design. The WEI I believe was designed on a faulty benchmark scheme more for bragging rights than any real tally of user experience. They don't even detail how they arrive at those numbers for each area.
As shown in z3r010's post, Microsoft assumes incorrectly that if you have better hardware with higher specs you will have a better Windows Experience. This is BS and doesn't take the faulty design/ease of use of the operating system into account at all. The WEI is nothing more than psychological manipulation to try to get more people to buy more expensive hardware IMO. Certainly looks that way to me.
I have high 6's and 7's with one 5.9 and my lowest 4.6 for desktop graphics - Are you freaking kidding me? My AMD A-8 quad core with 8 gigs of ram coupled with my discrete ATI Radeon 7640G with 2 gigs of video ram makes this puppy sing and dance. Desktop Graphics low score? I can play FarCry3 on high settings, do video editing, and have Firefox open with 300 active tabs and no slow downs at the same time. This is out the box, I have yet to make major tweaks like permanently disabling tons of unneeded Microsoft services - I'd give my rig a solid 8.0 for user experience and I'd be Right. ( I auto logon and bypass the lock screen/start screen/ metro screen with Classic Shell) - The WEI Is a Lie.
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I think I win. This is like golf right. You want a low score here it is.:shock:
Here is my other it didn't do as well.
I just noticed it says memory = 15.9 gb. What is that about should be 16 gb?
Here is my other it didn't do as well.
I just noticed it says memory = 15.9 gb. What is that about should be 16 gb?
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I think I win. This is like golf right. You want a low score here it is.:shock:
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Here is my other it didn't do as well.
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I just noticed it says memory = 15.9 gb. What is that about should be 16 gb?
Don't worry, your Graphics is still higher than mine (2nd photo), but the 1st photo is just awful!
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I wasn't even planning to post in this thread, but out of curiosity I decided to run the WEI tests. My system freezes solid at the "Direct3D 9 Desktop Assessment." No keyboard or mouse. Not even the hardware reset button on the computer case would work. Had to press the power button until power was cut to the motherboard.
Rebooted, and it repeated. Not really interested in trying a third time, but curious why it causes my system to freeze.
Wonderful. (not)
Rebooted, and it repeated. Not really interested in trying a third time, but curious why it causes my system to freeze.
Wonderful. (not)
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Nice scores, great rig 
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Here is my Win 8 WEI (its 7.6 in Win 7 for the same hardware). The Video card is a Sapphire HD7770.
MB purchase date 6/1/2010, old hardware
Evga SR-2
Two 6 core XEON CPUs Overclocked to 4446MHz, HT off, stopped here because WEI score was not increasing.
Memory 12 Gigs OCZ Gold 2000 10 10 10 30
Two Evga 680 4GB in SLI
Latest EVGA Video Card Drivers 310.61
3D settings at Maximum Performance
Using Precision X, set power target to 124%
Windows 8 Optimized for performance
Corsair SSD 180 GIG Force GT, Optimized
SSD using old Windows 7 driver, no Windows 8 Controller driver yet, so should go up to about 8.2.
Power Supply BFG 1200
Air Cooled with two Noctua D-14s
Home Made Lexan Tech Station
I got the same score with one 680 Video card as I did with two 680s in sli, no change in score
I got the same score at 12 x 4446 MHz as I did with about 12 x 4100 MHz, no change in score as I went up in overclock
Lots of nice rigs posted here.
I have YouTube videos with this system, they are running chess programs, old.
I am ready for another build.
Maybe 2 x 10 overclocked or 2 x 8 overclocked.
Windows 8 runs fine for me, no bugs so far.
Merry Christmas to all my Computer Geek friends and as for the normal people here---you have a good day too.
kgburcham
Unfortunately, I'm under the impression that anyone with higher than an 8.3 for graphics has hacked their WEI (considering the 7970 Matrix Platinum only gets an 8.3 and it is the fastest single GPU card on the market).
I guess in theory it's plausible that someone might have more than a 9.0 with processor, considering the Xeon and Extreme editions.
Moving my RAM from 1600MHz to 2400MHz only increased the score from 7.8 to 8.1.
My i5-3570K is overclocked to 4.4GHz and manages an 8.0, barely (4.2 is only a 7.9).
My Solid-State Drive was only getting 7.9s until I used the Samsung Magician to optimize it, at which point it got an 8.0 also.
My graphics card is a Radeon HD 7950, which achieves 8.1 in both graphics categories -- I'm under the impression that MOST high-end graphics cards will only achieve an 8.1.
A GTX690 WILL NOT ACHIEVE HIGHER THAN 8.1 (due to GTX680 lightning edition only getting an 8.1 and the WEI running only off single GPUs).
Anyway, here are my results. I am very pleased with them and, to be honest, I think anyone with a 9.0 or above in the graphics card area is just being stupid (unless perhaps Quadro's get higher performance? I'm not sure). You would need a HELL of an SSD to get above 8.5. You would need an incredible CPU (such as dual six-cores overclocked at 4.1GHz) to even get a 9.1.
RAM is a bit tricky; I think Microsoft leans more toward certain makes and models of RAM rather than the actual RAM speeds -- Some RAM models at 2000MHz achieve the same or better than some RAM at 2400MHz.
I guess in theory it's plausible that someone might have more than a 9.0 with processor, considering the Xeon and Extreme editions.
Moving my RAM from 1600MHz to 2400MHz only increased the score from 7.8 to 8.1.
My i5-3570K is overclocked to 4.4GHz and manages an 8.0, barely (4.2 is only a 7.9).
My Solid-State Drive was only getting 7.9s until I used the Samsung Magician to optimize it, at which point it got an 8.0 also.
My graphics card is a Radeon HD 7950, which achieves 8.1 in both graphics categories -- I'm under the impression that MOST high-end graphics cards will only achieve an 8.1.
A GTX690 WILL NOT ACHIEVE HIGHER THAN 8.1 (due to GTX680 lightning edition only getting an 8.1 and the WEI running only off single GPUs).
Anyway, here are my results. I am very pleased with them and, to be honest, I think anyone with a 9.0 or above in the graphics card area is just being stupid (unless perhaps Quadro's get higher performance? I'm not sure). You would need a HELL of an SSD to get above 8.5. You would need an incredible CPU (such as dual six-cores overclocked at 4.1GHz) to even get a 9.1.
RAM is a bit tricky; I think Microsoft leans more toward certain makes and models of RAM rather than the actual RAM speeds -- Some RAM models at 2000MHz achieve the same or better than some RAM at 2400MHz.
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All are nice scores and great rigs.
Welcome to Eight Forums kgburcham and Dimitri.
Welcome to Eight Forums kgburcham and Dimitri.
Ok, I'm not very computer savvy compared to everyone in here, but I thought my brand new computer would score a bit better than it did and the Display Adapter Type listed says Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000, but I know there's a NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M 2GB GDDR5 as well. It's the first time I bought something more than a crappy E Machine on my own and frankly I thought for what I spent it would score a bit better. Is there a way to improve the scores? Did the 32GB SSD help this score at all?
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Hi, gang- 1st post & new to Win8. Got a new Dell 17R with the i73630QM, 8GB 5400 DDR3 & an Nvidia 650M 2GB DDR5. The HDD seems to be the weak point, & I may look into an SSD to tune it up a bit. Still going through a few growing pains with this new OS, and look forward to getting tips from all of you.
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Hey, I just noticed the WEI didn't notice the Nvidia card & instead graded the intregrated HD 4000. :huh:
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