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    What's your WEI for Dell xps 16 core i7 ?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by capeta, Feb 17, 2010.

  1. capeta

    capeta Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just for curiousity what's your Windows Experience index (could you please include processor, memory, graphics, hard drive) for those people who own the Dell XPS 16 with core i7.

    Feel free to mention yours regardless of your specs, but if you have these specs below please let me know
    core i7 - 720qm 1.6GHz
    6gb RAM 1333MHz
    ati 4670 graphics card
    640GB hard drive 5400 rpm

    Thanks
     
  2. lesz

    lesz Notebook Consultant

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    I have an i7 720, 8 gb RAM at 1333 GHz, 4670 graphics, and a 500 GB 7200 rpm drive. My scores are
    Processor 7.0
    RAM 7.4
    Graphics 6.7
    Gaming graphics 6.7
    Hard disk 5.9 (which is the highest you can get without a solid state drive)

    Les
     
  3. fred2028

    fred2028 Sexy member

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    Specs in signature. Not sure why my SSD scored the same as my old 500 GB 7200 RPM.
     

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    bulforce Notebook Enthusiast

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    Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 820 @ 1.73GHz 7.1
    Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB 7.4
    Graphics ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 6.7
    Gaming graphics 2810 MB Total available graphics memory 6.7
    Primary hard disk 53GB Free (116GB Total) 5.9

    Only missing 4 gigs of ram and a ssd.
     
  5. malkie0831

    malkie0831 Notebook Enthusiast

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    My spec is as in my sig:

    Processor 6.9
    RAM 7.4
    Graphics 6.7
    Gaming graphics 6.7
    Hard disk 7.0

    I have not updated the score since loading A07 bios.
     
  6. capeta

    capeta Notebook Enthusiast

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    thanks everyone :)
    the reason i asked this question was because I got a HP and ASUS notebook both with similar specs to the Dell XPS 16 I mentioned above. And when I compared the Windows Experience Index for both systems, I got weird results.

    For example:
    1. my HP's hard drive speed is 7200 rpm and my ASUS' is 5400 rpm, but they both get 5.9
    2. both my HP and ASUS ram speed is 1066Mhz, but my HP gets 7.4 whilst the ASUS gets 5.9 . even more surprising is that the Dell's faster 1333Mhz also gets 7.4
    3. A system with 4GB ram or 8GB ram both gets 7.4
    4. the ASUS' graphics card ati 5730 is slightly faster than the Dell's ati 4670, but they both get 6.7

    So i have concluded that the windows experience index is unreliable and useless.
     
  7. lesz

    lesz Notebook Consultant

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    I think your conclusion about the WEI being "unreliable" is pretty accurate.
    The 5.9 hard drive score score is explained by the fact that, without a SSD, the highest you can get is 5.9, and quite a range of drives seem to still qualify for the 5.9. For example, on my desktop, which has a separate 10,000 rpm Velociraptor drive just for the operating system and programs, it ends up with the same 5.9 as my 1645 laptop drive gets.

    With regard to the RAM, I think that, with a Dell 1645, whether you have 4GB, 6 GB, or 8GB of RAM, you are still getting the same 7.4 score. I think that, to get better than 7.4 for RAM, you would need to have a desktop motherboard, which is using 3 channel memory. With the laptop boards and 2 channel memory, I think that 7.4 is the best you can get. Even though 4GB and 8GB get the same score, I know that my system performs better at the memory intensive tasks that I do with the 8GBs. So, yes, the scores have limited meaning.