Crossfire hurts WEI???

[MaSonZ]

set up Crossfire a few minutes ago, ran WEI expecting it to be 7.9... but my graphics dropped from 7.7 to 6.0    granted, one card is a 6850 and the other is a 6870, but 6850/6870 are crossfireable so I should in theory reap the an increase in performance, not a decrease. I understand my 6870 is going to down clock to my 6850's settings, but I should still have a dual 6850 in that instance. I understand further more that WEI is really a set of numbers that are meaningless except for bragging rights essentially, but why did it drop?

defies logic....

and one more question. If I OC my 6850 to the factory settins og my 6870 that will run the 6850 at those settings and it would be like running 2 6850's to a degree, correct?

[Krusty]

It dropped because windows is seeing it as the least powerful of the 2. Maybe it doesn't recognize xfire at all.

WEI doesn't mean much anyways

[Denholm]

Is there an echo in here?

[MaSonZ]

It dropped because windows is seeing it as the least powerful of the 2. Maybe it doesn't recognize xfire at all.

WEI doesn't mean much anyways

I know it doesnt meant much anyway, but I was getting a rank of 7.7 with my 6850. installing and enabling Crossfire with a 6870 dropped it.

[Ack-Ack]

I know it doesnt meant much anyway, but I was getting a rank of 7.7 with my 6850. installing and enabling Crossfire with a 6870 dropped it.

When I first got my new computer, the WEI was listed as 8.0 until I disabled some features like Security Essentials and some other Windows stuff and my score went down to 5.9.

ack-ack

[MaSonZ]

When I first got my new computer, the WEI was listed as 8.0 until I disabled some features like Security Essentials and some other Windows stuff and my score went down to 5.9.

ack-ack

thoughts on why this could be the case? I can't see the logic in losing performance (in theory) after installing a second and and enabling Crossfire.

[Spikes]

Thought: WEI is worthless.

[Krusty]

Further thoughts: MS is petty. Disable their crapware and they get back at you by lowering the number. It's really such an arbitrary number/system. Go for 3D Mark score or something far more subjective.

[MaSonZ]

Thought: WEI is worthless.

I knew this...

no one has yet to begin to answer my initial question: why would WEI see an increase of some sort in performance as a decrease?

[Ack-Ack]

thoughts on why this could be the case? I can't see the logic in losing performance (in theory) after installing a second and and enabling Crossfire.

Because as a measuring tool, WEI is worthless and doesn't tell you anything useful. 

ack-ack

[Denholm]

I knew this...

no one has yet to begin to answer my initial question: why would WEI see an increase of some sort in performance as a decrease?

Perhaps you're better off calling Micrsoft, talking for hours with their India-based script-reading customer agents, then talking with a supervisor who informs you, "it really doesn't mean anything."

[MaSonZ]

Perhaps you're better off calling Micrsoft, talking for hours with their India-based script-reading customer agents, then talking with a supervisor who informs you, "it really doesn't mean anything."

after he tries to persuade and insts on his life that it is an accurate measurement of how my machine will perform when I know it isn't