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Phaelax
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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 06:06 Edited at: 28th Feb 2013 06:06
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Just curious here, what's everyone's WEI? (Does Win8 still do this?)



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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 07:36 Edited at: 28th Feb 2013 07:37
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I guess it's time to up my RAM, still running only 4gb



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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 07:39
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The Experience Index on my virtual PC's Windows 7 install is a blazing 1.0! I'll post my gaming PC's EI when I get it.
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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 08:14
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Where is that?
I wonder if ubuntu has something similar. Probably not.


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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 14:27 Edited at: 28th Feb 2013 14:28
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Not too shabby. I'll upgrade my CPU at some point in the future, but that won't be for a long while. I also plan on adding more RAM (currently at 8GB, I'll add another 8GB when I feel like it).

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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 22:41
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Obese, it's in the system properties. (right-click on My Computer)

I doubt any other OS has this. I think it started with Vista. To be honest, the score are rather meaningless I think. 7.9 is the max score I think.

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Mines 4.8, alright for a $560 budget laptop with integrated graphics
There are other benchmark programs for Windows and Mac, and there are probably one's for Linux as well (just google benchmark ubuntu, or search benchmark in the app store)

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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 03:47 Edited at: 1st Mar 2013 04:05
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I think a 7.9 is a pretty unreachable goal! I've heard it gets exponentially harder the higher rating it is.

Quote: "Does Win8 still do this?"


I think it does, but goes up to 9.9 rather than 7.9!

Its a pretty meaningless rating, but this is mine:


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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 05:03 Edited at: 1st Mar 2013 05:06
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@BiggAdd
*drools*


Anyways, I managed to get most of mine up pretty high(finally overclocked my i3 to 3.5GHz), but my disk drive seems to be pretty slow.


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They limit HDD's to 5.9, the only way to get higher is to go SSD or RAID. I'm using a SATAII 7200RPM samsung eco edition, I get 5.9, my friend uses a SATAIII 7200RPM Caviar Black harddrive, he also gets 5,9 xD
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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 12:10 Edited at: 1st Mar 2013 12:11
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BigAdd, is yours overclocked? Cause you got a higher score on the exact same CPU I have.

Isocadia, if you're looking for an SSD, I use a Mushkin and it's been great.

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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 13:02
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I have an SSD an still only get 5.9
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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 13:41 Edited at: 1st Mar 2013 13:44
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Quote: "BigAdd, is yours overclocked? Cause you got a higher score on the exact same CPU I have."


I use the CPU level up feature on my Asus motherboard, so it the clock goes up to 4.6GHz when under load, so it could be the case!

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*drools*"


Indeed! Its the first time I've built myself a proper gaming PC, the last PC I built was more of a workstation, with a low-midrange graphics card. This time I just thought, to hell with it! I'm going for something high end!

I managed to cram it all in the Silverstone FT03 case, so I was pretty chuffed! Much better size than my old E-ATX Tower case!

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Quote: "Indeed! Its the first time I've built myself a proper gaming PC, the last PC I built was more of a workstation, with a low-midrange graphics card. This time I just thought, to hell with it! I'm going for something high end!"

It truly is a beast, that's for sure. I can't imagine using 32 GB of RAM for anything.

Btw, how much did it end up costing you? (Ballpark, I would guess around $2000ish?) Also, have you tried running Crysis on Ultra settings yet?

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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 16:39 Edited at: 1st Mar 2013 16:40
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Quote: "Also, have you tried running Crysis on Ultra settings yet?"


Is that still a benchmark?

@ BiggAdd

That is an awesome rig. It'd be interesting to see what score you get with this: http://unigine.com/products/heaven/

I might actually open a thread about that.

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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 16:39 Edited at: 2nd Mar 2013 02:17
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Quote: "Its a pretty meaningless rating"

Well I assume it's just an indication of how optimally your system can run the OS isn't it?


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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 17:52 Edited at: 1st Mar 2013 17:52
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Well, this is for my 4 year old gaming laptop on Windows 8


However, in a proper benchmark I'm sure it'd do worse on account of the graphics card not functioning to its full capacity.

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"3D Business Graphics" - come again?


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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 23:24 Edited at: 1st Mar 2013 23:25
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I was at MicroCenter today and I looked at a laptop that scored 7.9 for it's CPU. It was only an i7-2.2GHz, how is that beating my i7-3770k @3.5GHz?! I seriously doubt that laptop model cpu is overclocked to outperform my desktop.


Quote: ""3D Business Graphics" - come again? "

I think that's a fancy sales word for integrated graphics.

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You jealous of my 5.5?

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Posted: 2nd Mar 2013 02:23 Edited at: 2nd Mar 2013 02:31
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This is what I got:

What's up with my hard drive?

Here's what I actually got first because Windows can't handle something as simple as changing the colour scheme:

I use my computer a lot and the bright backgrounds hurt my eyes, but if I change it text becomes unreadable in many places. I can't believe I paid for this piece of crap OS! Never again. (That is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to my frustrations with Windows, but I wont bore you with any more lol. I just get annoyed sometimes because Windows makes computing unpleasant and frustrating.)


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Posted: 2nd Mar 2013 03:00 Edited at: 2nd Mar 2013 03:00
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I got a 5.9, but because of my disk transfer speed. Other than that, 7.5 across the board. So...I'm making the executive decision and saying I have a 7.5

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Posted: 2nd Mar 2013 19:36 Edited at: 2nd Mar 2013 19:37
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Windows 8, Still running HDD(s), procrastinating on getting a couple SSD(s).

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Some nerds at Ohio State just did a study on several SSDs and what happens if they suddenly lose power.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/03/01/224257/how-power-failures-corrupt-flash-ssd-data

13 out of 15 drives had some kind of failure. The ones that passed were MLC from 2012. So I'm safe with my Mushkin!

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Wait, so when I get my SSD I'm going to have to turn off the computer properly rather than flipping the switch on the wall?


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They were probably referring to power outages or perhaps using them in embedded devices.

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Well I would be posting a picture of mine from my Windows desktop, but Windows 8 decided to try a new spontaneous black screen thing on me. Not sure I find it agreeable.

I scored around 5.9 on the hard disk, everything else was 7.1 or 7.2. Not bad for a 5 year old computer I think.
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Must've been beastly computer 5 years ago

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Posted: 17th Mar 2013 21:44 Edited at: 17th Mar 2013 21:45
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Finally ended procrastination and ordered an SSD.
120G Kingston

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Quote: "That is an awesome rig. It'd be interesting to see what score you get with this: http://unigine.com/products/heaven/"


I did actually run it when I built the system as a stability test, but I can't remember what I scored! It was far better than my old system though, so I was happy with that!

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Posted: 17th Mar 2013 22:08 Edited at: 18th Mar 2013 00:27
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I just ran that benchmark, this was the result:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/60818722/Unigine_Heaven_Benchmark_4.0_20130317_1703.html

It also said that my GPU maxed out at 89°C. I'm assuming it was actually measuring in Fahrenheit, but if not, at least I know my GPU can withstand pretty high temperatures.

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Quote: "It also said that my GPU maxed out at 89°C. I'm assuming it was actually measuring in Fahrenheit, but if not at least I know my GPU can withstand pretty high temperatures."


Some cards can withstand that temperature, though it's pretty hot. Apparently the maximum my GPU can take is 105°C. So above boiling temperature. Enough for a cup of tea.

http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-650ti/specifications

Mine usually averages around 65°c, but I've not tried that benchmark, maybe I'll give it a go.

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Quote: "Mine usually averages around 65°c, but I've not tried that benchmark, maybe I'll give it a go."

I just looked at the temp of mine, it averages about 45°C when not running games. So the 89°C was probably accurate. It would probably help if I cleaned out the fans of my PC sometime (I think I've done it once in the year+ I've had it).

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Posted: 18th Mar 2013 02:45 Edited at: 18th Mar 2013 03:03
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I ran that benchmark and my results seem odd.

http://zimnox.com/Unigine_Heaven_Benchmark_4.0_20130317_2139.html

I have the same card as budokaiman, except I have a gb more of memory on it than his. Even though he got higher frame rates at apparently higher quality settings, I ended up with a higher overall score.

Did another test, this time same settings as budokaiman. My score is way lower now, I don't get it.
http://zimnox.com/Unigine_Heaven_Benchmark_4.0_20130317_2202.html

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Posted: 18th Mar 2013 12:37 Edited at: 18th Mar 2013 12:38
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Quote: "Did another test, this time same settings as budokaiman. My score is way lower now, I don't get it."

I'm running two 560's in SLI. Nice to know it makes a large difference.

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Posted: 18th Mar 2013 18:25 Edited at: 18th Mar 2013 18:26
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Unfortunately I can't seem to get the Windows Index to work, but I can give my Unigine scores.

FPS: 20.6
Score: 519
Min FPS: 7.2
Max FPS: 47.4

Hardware:
OS: Win 8 Pro 64bit
Processor: AMD FX 6300
Card: GeForce GTX 650ti 1gb

Settings:
Direct X 11
Mode: 1920x1080 4xAA Fullscreen
High Shaders
High Textures
Trilinear Filtering
Anisotropy 4x
Occlusion Enabled
Refraction Enabled
Volumtetric Enable
Tessellation: Extreme

It looked good, I had it running at lower settings for a smooth FPS and it still looks damn good. Never properly seen tessellation in action, so it was an interesting benchmark.

Quote: "I'm running two 560's in SLI. Nice to know it makes a large difference."


Well damn, I might be half tempted to install a second card.

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I thought maybe that's what the x2 meant. But then where my quad core says x4 your 6 core said x3 so I wasn't sure.

Yea I'd say your SLI makes a difference!

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I had this for a bit before I fixed my graphics card drivers



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