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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: MaSonZ on January 24, 2012, 03:36:54 PM
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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 :huh :bhead 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?
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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 :P
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Is there an echo in here? :D
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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 :P
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thought: WEI is worthless.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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." :D
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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." :D
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 :aok