Windows Performance Rating - 2 machines identical

Jokester said:
Does just go to show that WEI purely is just arbitary nonsense.
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It's not though, it runs real, valid benchmarks, it's just people's interpretations of them that is usually flawed. The problem here wasn't the benchmark, it was the fact that under 4GB there is a cap of 5.9.
 
Broken Hope said:
It's not though, it runs real, valid benchmarks, it's just people's interpretations of them that is usually flawed. The problem here wasn't the benchmark, it was the fact that under 4GB there is a cap of 5.9.
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Do you not think that limiting one score to 5.9 when if he was using 32bit windows it would get more is arbitary? The performance is identical!
 
WEI is not allways spot on for a synthetic benchmark test. microsoft say If your computer has a 64-bit central processing unit (CPU) and 4 gigabytes (GB) or less random access memory (RAM), then the Memory (RAM) subscore for your computer will have a maximum of 5.9.

What is the Windows Experience Index?

Anyway lol :D, the AMD Sata was @ Sata 3 6GB/s, Intel was @ Sata 2 3GB/s, and HyperThreading was disabled in the last WEI test.



 
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Good example of why it is a flawed 'benchmark', what I'd find interesting would be a comparison of say a 3.9GB 64bit OS with 3.0GB 32bit OS, i.e. would it score the 3.0GB system higher than 5.9 on a 32bit OS?

Arbitrary limitations are inherently bad, I've got a feeling (don't quote me) it does something similar with the number of cores on the processor i.e. a quad core would be capped to a certain limit even if it was running at over 5ghz compared to a slower hex-core cpu at only 3ghz.
 
HangTime said:
Good example of why it is a flawed 'benchmark', what I'd find interesting would be a comparison of say a 3.9GB 64bit OS with 3.0GB 32bit OS, i.e. would it score the 3.0GB system higher than 5.9 on a 32bit OS?

Arbitrary limitations are inherently bad, I've got a feeling (don't quote me) it does something similar with the number of cores on the processor i.e. a quad core would be capped to a certain limit even if it was running at over 5ghz compared to a slower hex-core cpu at only 3ghz.
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^ This would be an interesting test because 64-bit programs in general use more RAM than their 32-bit counterparts, which makes the extra .9 GB quite valuable to even out the test. This is all completely ignoring the fact that WEI should give some bonus to the processor score for running 64 bit...

On my desktop with 4G ram and 64-bit the memory gets 7.1, is it just laptops which run into this arbitrary rating limit?
 
Does your desktop have a discrete GPU? The reason these laptops are scoring 5.9 is I think because they have less than 4GB usable RAM i.e. the laptop is 'stealing' some for the GPU meaning it drops under 4GB, whereas your desktop may have the full 4GB available (therefore this arbitrary limit doesn't apply).
 
That sounds plausible :) That score is with a discrete GPU yeah, is it true a lot of even the dedicated graphics in laptops feast on a bit of extra ram?
 
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