Window Experience Index Scores

mmmmm, ok
I'll leave it the way it is now.
Thanx for the response:)
 

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Redviper said:
grimreaper said:
As in RAID 0?
What are the benefits to that setup?
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Well, you get a lot more speed with two controllers responding to a data request. The down side, which I've learned from direct experience recently, is that if something major happens with one drive you're pretty much SOL.
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The speed boost is well worth the risk. if you have important stuff to save, just put it on a separate hard disk that isn't part of the stripe. if its real important, then make a mirror separate from the os drives that are striped
 

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Scramswitch said:
Redviper said:
Well, you get a lot more speed with two controllers responding to a data request. The down side, which I've learned from direct experience recently, is that if something major happens with one drive you're pretty much SOL.
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The speed boost is well worth the risk. if you have important stuff to save, just put it on a separate hard disk that isn't part of the stripe. if its real important, then make a mirror separate from the os drives that are striped
Click to expand...

Remember, the amount of risk that's palatable is a painfully personal thing, and I got burned by a RAID configuration recently. I didn't say that RAID was bad, only that it has its downsides.
 

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z3r010 said:
Just wondering what everbody else is getting and on what hardware, so with the help of my friend the snipping tool, here goes.

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To see what all this means, see:

Windows Vista Blog: Windows Experience Index: An In-Depth Look
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Well, after tweaking my Chipset I got it up to 5.9.
Before it was only around 5.6 due to Ram issues. Once I cleared the Bottleneck up with the Chipset being the problem it went right to 5.9.
Does this mean anything? Not really, it's just a way to get People to upgrade their PC's...
 

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Redviper said:
Scramswitch said:
The speed boost is well worth the risk. if you have important stuff to save, just put it on a separate hard disk that isn't part of the stripe. if its real important, then make a mirror separate from the os drives that are striped
Click to expand...

Remember, the amount of risk that's palatable is a painfully personal thing, and I got burned by a RAID configuration recently. I didn't say that RAID was bad, only that it has its downsides.
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which is why i suggested the mirror array....the raid that people talk about when suggesting performance tweaks isnt truly RAID (as in Redundant Array of Individual Disks) the mirror array is more dependable than a single drive...raid 3 and 5 is even more reliable than a mirror... the failure of a single drive wont cause you to lose data... as I was sayin...for performance, put your os on a stripe, store important data on a mirror or better type raid array
 

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I personally never use raid,i like to use the old copy\paste way.
For me is the safest way.
I have 3 hdds C:\ D:\ E:\ and i allways copy everything from D:\ to E:\
Thats it,i have the same things in 2 hds,if anyone of my hds is broken i buy a new one and i ...COPY\PASTE :)
 

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    Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
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    Gigabyte GA-X38-DS4
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    SAPPHIRE RADEON HD4890 OC 1GB GDDR5
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Scramswitch said:
Redviper said:
Remember, the amount of risk that's palatable is a painfully personal thing, and I got burned by a RAID configuration recently. I didn't say that RAID was bad, only that it has its downsides.
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which is why i suggested the mirror array....the raid that people talk about when suggesting performance tweaks isnt truly RAID (as in Redundant Array of Individual Disks) the mirror array is more dependable than a single drive...raid 3 and 5 is even more reliable than a mirror... the failure of a single drive wont cause you to lose data... as I was sayin...for performance, put your os on a stripe, store important data on a mirror or better type raid array
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The discussion was about performance, not redundancy. Also, I would consider the OS drive to be "important data", be definition. Yes, it is possible to have a RAID 0 mirrored, but that's not a complication >I'm< willing to chance right now. I'm clocking 5.7 for WEI disk right now, which doesn't matter since my games are loaded on 2 RaptorX's, and Vista runs just peachy on a very stable 7200 SATA 2. There is indeed life without RAID.

You seem intent on using my post as a springboard for your views on RAID. Is this approach to "community" really needed?
 

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Sorry to interrupt the RAID discussion and go back on topic :sarc:, but I couldn`t resist joining to show my modest little ongoing HTPC project`s scores. While dedicated graphic cards still smoke integrated ones (as they should), I love the AMD 780G chipset & 3200 HD IGP. Curious to see if Hybrid Crossfire with a little 3470 card improves my WEI any.

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    AMD 8650 X3 Toliman
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    ASUS
    Memory
    2x2GB G. Skill PC2 8500
    Graphics card(s)
    Sapphire HD 3470
    Hard Drives
    A single ExcelStor 160GB SATAII/8MB cache/7200RPM
Here's mine again. My graphics (and thus my score) went up 0,1 by installing uptodate driver for graphic card:p

Amplid

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  • CPU
    Intel Q9550 @ 3.2 GHz (for now)
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    Asus ROG Striker 2 Extreme
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    2 x 2Gb Patriot DDR3
    Graphics card(s)
    XFX GeForce 9800 GTX+
    Sound Card
    Creative Supreme FX 2
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    Neovo F417 17''
    Screen Resolution
    1280x1024
    Hard Drives
    Samsung SP2504C SATA 7200rpm
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    Pc Power & Cooling 750
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    Coolermaster CM 690
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    6 120mm's, Xigmatek HDT 1283 with crossbow backplate
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I've got a 3 year old Dell XPS. Vista runs pretty good on this machine, but I'm in the market for a new one.

Here's my score on my Dell.

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Jello man said:
Sorry to interrupt the RAID discussion and go back on topic :sarc:, but I couldn`t resist joining to show my modest little ongoing HTPC project`s scores. While dedicated graphic cards still smoke integrated ones (as they should), I love the AMD 780G chipset & 3200 HD IGP. Curious to see if Hybrid Crossfire with a little 3470 card improves my WEI any.

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I can`t get crossfire to work, but my little vid card and hd increased my scores a bit. I`m looking forward to posting scores for my "big" machine I`m gonna build this summer :geek:.
 

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    Hard Drives
    A single ExcelStor 160GB SATAII/8MB cache/7200RPM
I noticed my computer has more than one slot for video cards. Can I add additional video cards to these slots? If so, I would easily buy a 512 mb card to add to the crappy 128 I have now.
 

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    8 GBs DDR3, 4 GB DDR2 PC5300 (667 MHZ)
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    nVIDIA GTS 250 (over clocked), nVIDIA 6150SE n430
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KingOfChaos said:
I noticed my computer has more than one slot for video cards. Can I add additional video cards to these slots? If so, I would easily buy a 512 mb card to add to the crappy 128 I have now.
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It depends on what M/Board you have.
Many Boards have multiple Slots like AGP, PCI, PCI express etc... It's not that they're necessarily only for video Cards but are used in a variety of manner for the installation of various hardware components such as Sound Cards & Graphics physic Cards as in the Agia Physix accelerator.
The only way to really use multiple GPU's is with a M/Board set up for either SLI or Crossfire.
You can do it with older Boards but you really need to know your stuff in order to do it and you really won't get the full potential like using a M/Board already set up to handle it.
Another thing to take into consideration is the fact that you MUST use the same GPU's in a multiple GPU configuration. You can't mix and match, unfortunately.
 

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By looking inside your computer, how would you know? I do know I have a ASUS motherboard.
 

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    8 GBs DDR3, 4 GB DDR2 PC5300 (667 MHZ)
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    nVIDIA GTS 250 (over clocked), nVIDIA 6150SE n430
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It would depend on the model Number.
ASUS supports both SLI and Crossfire, it depends on which video Card you have.
Get the model Number and do a search to see if it supports either.
One other thing, the GPU itself has to support multiple GPU configurations as well.
SLI and Crossfire ready GPU's will have a Plug at the Top of the Board and even higher end GPU's will have 2 for 3, 4 way SLI and Crossfire.
If you have an older or lesser GPU without the connector then you cannot run them together.
Doing so will cause all kinds of conflicts to the system.
 

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What if he has an old ATI card? For those, you didn't need an interconnect inside to have Crossfire, just a regular card. But that adds to the equation master cards and slave cards, which is quite a hassle.

Just type in "dxdiag" into the Run Prompt. Without the quotes, of course. Tell us what it says under Device Name via the Display Tab. That will definitely be able to tell us whether you can plop another card in there for a multi-GPU configuration.

You can mix and match cards, to a certain degree. Within a generation is the most that would be theoretically possible, but even that is stretching it. You could SLI an 8800GTS and an 8800GTX, but the GTX would disable its extra shaders and lower its clocks to match the 8800GTS. In all cases, the faster card will force itself to become the speed of the slower one. This is what I've heard, no one has actually done it. Mainly because it is cheaper to buy the card you have and not a better one, which would disable some of its features to match your current card.

Good luck!

~Ibrahim~
 

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    WD 640GB (50GB OS/100GB Programs/490GB TV Recordings) Seagate 320GB
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nVidia GeForce 6150SE n430
DAC Type: Integrated RAMDAC
 

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    Intel 2 Quad Core Q9400, AMD Athlon 64 x2 4400+
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    8 GBs DDR3, 4 GB DDR2 PC5300 (667 MHZ)
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    nVIDIA GTS 250 (over clocked), nVIDIA 6150SE n430
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You can slave a second Card but then all you'd be getting are the resources like the second Cards RAM.
It would help a little but not like SLI or Crossfire.
Of course nVidia has defaulted their SLI settings to single GPU because they can't figure out how to do the other SLI stuff right so I guess my second 8800 Ultra is just being used for its recourses as well, LOL!
Whenever I run it in force alternate frame render or split frame it kinda works but then Windows Media Player goes haywire...
Such is the nature of the Beast.
 

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