How to Score A 7.9 for HDD in Windows Experience Index of Windows 7
Windows 7 brings on new definition of excellence, while at the same time leveling up the taste of hardware.
Microsoft provided a scheme for hardware evaluation to predict the machines’ potential performance when running Windows Vista, named Windows Experience Index, ranging from 1.0 to 5.9, measuring against the average performance of hardware back in 2006.
Windows Experience Index got renewed in many ways within Windows 7, the most obvious being the performance score tops at 7.9, increased from 5.9 in Windows Vista. Other improvements include shorter test time and better testing scheme.
I’ve been wondering how to achieve a 7.9, highest score possible, in WEI of Windows 7 since quite a lot of today’s high end components couldn’t even get close to 7 in score of performance.
Well, it’s no secret that equipping with a graphics card like ATI HD 4870 or NVIDIA GTX 280 would definitely get closer to 7.9 in score of graphics, but did you ever see any computer got full mark in HDD performance test?
While surfing the web casually today, I noticed one test review of DELL’s highest end mobile workstation, Precision M6400, on a Chinese website. Packed with Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T9600, 4GB DDR3 Memory, NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M graphics, and two Intel SSD X-25E 32GB in RAID 0, the mobile monster made it to claim two 7.9, highest score possible, one of them HDD!
So what kind of an HDD could be rated as highest speedy in Windows 7?
Check this out, the superb performance of 2 Intel SSD X-25E in RAID 0.
See that HDD score in PCMark Vantage test? Over 30,000…and don’t forget this is a notebook. Incredible Intel!
Two fastest HDDs on this planet run like wind once getting in RAID 0.
Unbelievable.
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March 25th, 2009
Oouch, unbelievable… How much does it cost :p ?
My old Dell 1530 came with a Momentus 7200.3… And it can be ashamed : he’s for away behind =) !
Maybe in 2020, I’ll be able to buy one.
Too expensive, (arch!)
March 25th, 2009
Oh… It’s my birthday
!
January 29th, 2010
1 gtx 295 gets a 7.8 by the way! lol 420 gbp
i7 920 not oced get 7.4 230 gbp
i have 6gb 1600 mhz ocz ram gets 7.9 100 gbp
in win 7 x64 just thought id help out
and ocz ssd 30gb get 6.4 was 70 gbp
March 6th, 2010
yeah the asus n61jq-x1 im getting has a score of 5.9, but i might bump it to a 6+ with some upgrades
its really a high score for a laptop and its only 969 its by far the best laptop for under 1500 i can find anywhere
May 16th, 2010
my lenovo r500 has folowing
processor – 6.4 (t9600)
ram – 6.4 (8gb patriot signature line 1066)
disk – 7.9 (160gb intel x25-m)
graphics are shitty around 5.5
June 26th, 2010
So, I finally got one. No, two
.
A X25-M 80GB G2 and a X25-V 40GB are mine now.
Results : it’s blazing fast, the X25-M gets a 7.7 in WEI and benchmark show a maximum transfer rate of 266.9MB/S (linear read), 255MB/S in average.
June 26th, 2010
@ Mathew :
Only 6.4 for 8GB of RAM ?
I get the same score for my 4GB 1066Mhz…
August 9th, 2010
@ Eyebath:
It’s not fully dependant on the amount of RAM that you have, but rather the speed at which your RAM operates, hence the same score from the 1066Mhz RAM
Silly in a way though
March 6th, 2011
An OCZ RevoDrive will get you a 7.9 on HDD performance all day long. Even a first generation Revo is 16 times faster than an ordinary set of SSDs in Raid 0. The second generation Revo is 20 times faster!
April 28th, 2011
AMD BLACK EDITION 4.2GHz x6 CPU
16DDR3 1600Mhz
5x WD 1TB BLACK HDD, RAID 0
AMD PowerColor HD6970 2GiB OC EDITION, X2 crossfire.
Basescore: 7.9
May 15th, 2011
I don’t know why anyone would want to purchase a SSD X-25E 32GB. Who cares about a score of 7.9! Superb performance my butt, fast yea, but with only 32 GB of storage you aren’t parking much of anything on that disk. $400 for a drive that can’t even store your OS… “So, I can open like 10 games/apps at once in under 3 seconds… oh but, Windows takes like 3 minutes to load cuz all I could afford after the $400 SSD was a big peice of crap HDD to park my OS in”.
November 13th, 2011
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April 23rd, 2012
My new Dell M6600 laptop has achieved a 7.5 index. It has 2 x 512SSD drives and 32gigs of memory not to mention the latest i7-2960XM processor running windows 7 64bit.
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