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    WEI again..

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by larry9898, May 17, 2009.

  1. larry9898

    larry9898 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi again.. recently I did a format with my laptop, Asus G50VT-X6 and after that it felt like booting up and opening programs was a little bit slower than before and I was just wondering what the cause was?

    My other problem is that I checked my WEI score and my primary hard disk score dropped from 5.9 to 5.8 :mad: what did I do to mess that up? Are there drivers I could install or something?
     
    larry9898, May 17, 2009
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    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Don't worry about WEI scores. It's odd that it's slower on a fresh format. Did you measure a time difference or is this subjective? Might want to scan your hard drive for errors or something...
     
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    larry9898 Notebook Enthusiast

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    It's basically subjective I just feel that programs take a bit to start and I've been noticing a few more "Program not responding" type errors for few seconds.

    It just bugs me that the score went down from 5.9 to 5.8 haha, anyway to bring it backup?
     
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  4. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    WEI is a worthless benchmark. Don't even worry about it, just download HDTune and use that to benchmark the hard drive and check it for errors.
     
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    larry9898 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks, I tried the HDTune program and my benchmark seems really messed up, the graph goes up and down.. like very far down and then back up. Min = 0.3MB/s Max = 84.9MB/s
     
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    That's normal for most HDDs. The important number you should be taking into account is the average MB/s.
     
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    larry9898 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Vista is probably busy indexing your files and programs. Try (temporarily) turning off SuperFetch and Indexing services and run the benchmark again.
     
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    Hmm that gave me a slight improvement at first then it went right down to 0.1mb/s
     
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    Those are mainly desktop HDDs I believe, which I expect will behave differently than notebook HDDs.

    Besides the WEI being only slightly more than a marketing tool in Microsoft's hands, a variation of 0.1 in the score is probably below the statistical significance level. In other words, ignore it as it is completely irrelevant.
     
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  11. RainMotorsports

    RainMotorsports Formerly ClutchX2

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    Im the opposite of everyone else, while wei scores should be taken with a grain of salt. More drastic drops after driver updates or wipes can be a good indication of driver's missing or an update screwing with something.

    I will agree there are better ways to bench the system to check its performance against previous but I have had a windows update murder my gpu score and gpu performance on my lat laptop.

    But yeah 0.1 isnt too much to worry over. 0.5 yes.
     
    RainMotorsports, May 17, 2009
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    I disagree on that. A while ago when I was playing around with my notebook and testing newer drivers, WEI would sometimes go up and sometimes go down but GPU performance never dropped despite what WEI said. As others have said, ignore WEI. I don't even bother now and leave it at 1.0 lol.
     
    sgogeta4, May 18, 2009
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    RainMotorsports Formerly ClutchX2

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    What u leave it at generally doesnt matter, you dont have to rerun it. But if it says 1.0 after an update and it was a 5.9 and your games not pulling enough frames to play then you know something is obviously wrong.
     
    RainMotorsports, May 18, 2009
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