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[Billy.]

I meant are you going to undervolt them, increase the clock frequency, and/or reduce the latencies? After I shaved down the timings on my g.skill, even windows noticed and gave me another point on the WEI

 

[joe7987]

^^Do you think I can decrease the voltage and still get the same results? If so... that probably wouldn't be a terrible idea. I don't plan on increasing the clocks, as I really don't need it to be any faster, but a little less power consumption is never a bad idea.

 

[Billy.]

I'm sure you can undervolt the memory, unless you are using low voltage memory already.


Here's a good article explaining latency for RAM in a nutshell
http://www.techpowerup.com/printarticle.php?id=131

*edit*
Why are you trying to undervolt your rig to begin with? Typically undervolting is to save power when you are using a battery, i.e. a laptop. I get the power efficiency thing.. but the dollar savings is pretty insignificant even over the course of a year.

 

[Hecz]

Hey guys, real quick, and out of curiosity. What is your Windows Experience Index rating?

 

[joe7987]

^^I'll have to check and let you know.

Bily - I'm both broke, and a bit of a hippy.. so saving a little energy helps me with both of those. Furthermore, the less voltage I need to send to a part, the lower the temperatures it generates, and the longer its lifespan (within reason, obviously.. undervolting too far can kill the part, apparently).

 

[Billy.]

Hey guys, real quick, and out of curiosity. What is your Windows Experience Index rating?

My subscores currently
Processor - 7.6
RAM - 7.7
Graphics - 7.9
Gaming graphics - 7.9
Primary disk - 7.3

 

[joe7987]

Hmm.. somethings up with my Primary Hard Disk Score. It was 7.5, but then I re-ran it so that it would recheck my processor (after the overclock), and now it's REALLY low. Mind you, I have a Crucial M4 SSD, and there is no noticeable slowness of the hard disk.

Processor: 7.7
Memory: 7.9
Graphics: 7.9
Gaming Graphics: 7.9
Primary Hard Disk: 5.9

EDIT: found the issue... windows thinks my HDD is my primary hard disk. I didn't set the SATA mode to AHCI before installing windows. Fail. .

DOUBLE EDIT: Weird... I switched it over to AHCI using a tutorial.. downloaded the appropriate drivers.. and no difference in my Primary Hard Disk score.

 

[Hecz]

Hmm.. somethings up with my Primary Hard Disk Score. It was 7.5, but then I re-ran it so that it would recheck my processor (after the overclock), and now it's REALLY low. Mind you, I have a Crucial M4 SSD, and there is no noticeable slowness of the hard disk.

Processor: 7.7
Memory: 7.9
Graphics: 7.9
Gaming Graphics: 7.9
Primary Hard Disk: 5.9

EDIT: found the issue... windows thinks my HDD is my primary hard disk. I didn't set the SATA mode to AHCI before installing windows. Fail. .

DOUBLE EDIT: Weird... I switched it over to AHCI using a tutorial.. downloaded the appropriate drivers.. and no difference in my Primary Hard Disk score.

My subscores currently
Processor - 7.6
RAM - 7.7
Graphics - 7.9
Gaming graphics - 7.9
Primary disk - 7.3

Thanks for the feed back and those are very impressive machine you guys have.

Blow are my scores,

Processor - 7.1
Memory RAM - 7.4
Graphics - 6.3
Gaming Graphics - 6.3
Primary Hard Disk - 7.9

My machine is running with the on-board graphics unit - Intel HD3000, But i do plan on installing a dedicated GPU in the future.

 

[joe7987]

^^I'm very jealous of your primary hard disk score. lol. It's driving me nuts that mine shows a 5.9. I know it's unjustified, because I AM getting the performance (whether windows recognizes it or not), but it's still frustrating. Oh well.

Thanks Hecz. What GPU are you looking at?

 

[Hecz]

Honestly, I have no idea right now because i haven't even started looking. Something Beefy though.

My primary hard drive is a 128 GB Samsung SSD 830 Series.

 

[joe7987]

^^Sounds good. I have a 128GB Crucial M4 SSD.

 

[Billy.]

Joe, did you turn off paged memory? If so, leave it at windows-auto and rerun the assessment. SSD's don't show improvement with paged memory, but windows likes to see that its there for use.

 

[joe7987]

Is that in the bios?

 

[Billy.]

No. Go to the CP > System > Advanced System Settings (aka system properties) > Advanced. Click the Performance Settings button, then Advanced tab. Virtually memory should be set to something greater than 0 (even though it does not improve SSD performance like I said previously). You can either enter your own page file min and max, or set it to auto which is what windows likes the most.

*edit*
One thing to keep in mind if disabling the page file, I believe you lose storage of the windows logs and alerts.