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Windows 7 CPU speed estimation?

topdog@OC

topdog@OC

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Hadn't noticed this before, but is this an estimation of the speed? Because I'm sure I've never run the WEI or been running my system with anything but 3.4GHz base and a turbo multiplier between 42x and 46x to temporarily boost it to 4.6GHz.

Or do all (even non-OC'd) i7 2600K's report this same value in Win7 based off some sort of assumption on what the max turbo could produce in theory (if it wasn't capped in the bios/mobo)?

estimated_performance.gif


Just curious as to why it displays that 5.80 GHz there.
 
topdog@OC said:
Hadn't noticed this before, but is this an estimation of the speed? Because I'm sure I've never run the WEI or been running my system with anything but 3.4GHz base and a turbo multiplier between 42x and 46x to temporarily boost it to 4.6GHz.

Or do all (even non-OC'd) i7 2600K's report this same value in Win7 based off some sort of assumption on what the max turbo could produce in theory (if it wasn't capped in the bios/mobo)?

estimated_performance.gif


Just curious as to why it displays that 5.80 GHz there.
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:)
 
ignore WEI, my Phenom II 955 scores 7.5 at stock 3.2Ghz, guess what it scores wih 4.5Ghz running lol yep you guessed it ;)
 
It's a bug, which seems more frequent after one of the windows updates about a month ago.

Method 4: After you change the computer's hardware configuration
To resolve this issue after you change the computer's hardware configuration, follow these steps:

Click Start, type the following path in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER:
%SYSTEMROOT%\Performance\WinSat\DataStore
Delete all the .xml files in the folder.
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Then refresh.
 
My CPU and RAM get a 7.8 by the way; the 7.7 is from the graphics (Gigabyte 460 SOC). I'm aware the scoring is a bit bat*** crazy, for example you could have a 10GHz CPU and it still wouldn't score max unless you had a specific number of cores/threads available as it just reserves some of the score for things like that.

I was just wondering if it was normal for it to display what it was displaying, but if it's a bug I'll likely leave it. I hadn't changed the hardware either by the way, that was what I had in there when it was installed but perhaps any overclocking can also confuse it.

Cheers for the replies.
 
Changing hardware does jack. It's broken like this when you install windows, clear it out and it'll be accurate, although I'm not sure what use it really is.
 
I think most people are missing the point - the question isn't about the WEI score, it's about the erroneous display of 5.8GHz next to his CPU name
 
Antelopethy said:
I think most people are missing the point - the question isn't about the WEI score, it's about the erroneous display of 5.8GHz next to his CPU name
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follow these steps:

Click Start, type the following path in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER:
%SYSTEMROOT%\Performance\WinSat\DataStore
Delete all the .xml files in the folder.
Click to expand...

I've found it best to simply delete the lot although I also found it better to disable the weekly task that set off the wie during my tf2 sessions.
 
SeeKified said:
I hope WEI is gone in Windows 8, causes so much confusion and frustration.
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But to be fair, its only for a basic, comparison between friends and others who arnt really botered about benchmarking, quite useful if your just comparing two pc's instore, cant download and run benchmarks in currys can you, you would look a bit wierd
 
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