in order to achieve a perfect 7.9 Windows 7 score, users will have to buy a computer powered by at least an 8 core processor!

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I've been watching the Windows seven Show us your WEI site , Show Us Your WEI - Windows 7 Forums since the 980X came out, and actualy since Windows 7 beta came out, and no one has peged a 7.9 yet, so far the higest I've heard of is a 7.8 with a 980X OCed to 4.5 with Raid 0 SSD's and 2 ( 295's ) Highest I could get is 7.7,( with a 920), 2( 295's) 2( intel X25M-G ssd's, and a 4.3 OC ; and I can't justify $1000 to watch my WEI go up 1/10 of a point,or even 2/10, but would still like to see someone peg it, just because M$ says it can't be done. 

Yeah I have no idea whether it was through a Windows Update install, but one day my Primary Hard Disk score went from 7.8 to 7.9 without me changing a thing.
It's completely fickle, and I think they're trying to make it sound more scientific than it actually is.

i think its safe to say we stand a better chance of catching the "roadrunner!, that pesky "wabbit" than getting the infamous 7.9 windows score!

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Just do the registry hack if it bothers you that much, lol.

LOL, how did u get that 7.9??

What is this registry hack you speak of?

all of it is a hack, you can tell by the greyed area on the score numbers. the Real WEI doesn't have the grey background.

KMoore4318

I've been watching the Windows seven Show us your WEI site , Show Us Your WEI - Windows 7 Forums since the 980X came out, and actualy since Windows 7 beta came out, and no one has peged a 7.9 yet, so far the higest I've heard of is a 7.8 with a 980X OCed to 4.5 with Raid 0 SSD's and 2 ( 295's ) Highest I could get is 7.7,( with a 920), 2( 295's) 2( intel X25M-G ssd's, and a 4.3 OC ; and I can't justify $1000 to watch my WEI go up 1/10 of a point,or even 2/10, but would still like to see someone peg it, just because M$ says it can't be done. 

Sounds like FSX(Flight Simulator X). Microsoft said the same thing about it when it came out. That it would be a couple of years until a PC was built that could max out the game because they designed it on purpose that way so that as new hardware came out you would be able to up the game settings to maximum. AFAIK it's still true because last time Tom's hardware did some benchmarks with  FSX and a core i7 extreme it didn't get that much better framerates than my quadcore from what I remeber LOL!
I even recall someone running FSX on a highly overclocked 6GHZ Intel cpu and it still only gained like 10fps so it's seriously cpu bound!!!
So if WEI is the same we'll have to wait for 7GHZ Intel cpu to come out to get a 7.9 or something!

Liderc

Windows Experience Index is probably the dumbest benchmark ever made. 

+100%.  I used to think more highly of it, but my 2 x 5870s only get 7.7.  I have come to realize someone somewhere decided certain things are measured and certain are not.  I expect the system is really only measuring one of the cards.  I have seen the number be 7.8 and 7.6 as well for the same two cards depending on the drivers.  I have also seen my score for ram drop because my overclock for my processor was not as high.  The WEI is far more important to people that do not have very much computer knowledge.  Just my opinion.

kmconstable

Liderc

Windows Experience Index is probably the dumbest benchmark ever made. 

+100%.  I used to think more highly of it, but my 2 x 5870s only get 7.7.  I have come to realize someone somewhere decided certain things are measured and certain are not.  I expect the system is really only measuring one of the cards.  I have seen the number be 7.8 and 7.6 as well for the same two cards depending on the drivers.  I have also seen my score for ram drop because my overclock for my processor was not as high.  The WEI is far more important to people that do not have very much computer knowledge.  Just my opinion.

What clocks are you running with these? With my 5970 @ 925/1200, up from a default of 725/1000 I get a 7.8.

Agree, this so called "index" is a waste of time.

Cheers!

IC

Yeah I don't put much stock in the WEI either.  All my scores sit at 7.8 except my stupid 300+ dollar HD that only scores 7.2?  I guess I need to buy 3 more and run them in RAID 0 so that I can boost my 7.2 up to 7.9 right? I think not :)  Maybe when they get the RAID and SSD's all figured out I will buy one more and RAID them but for now I like having TRIM and all the goodies work correctly without having to put much effort into it.