Raymond Luxury Yacht on 2/1/2012 at 02:29
I just did my first build, so I am thrilled, for one, that it even worked, and for another that all the parts worked. However, I am a liitle curious about the Windows Experience Index. Having run XP for 10 years, it's new to me, and I was surprised that my hard disk data transfer scored 5.9. I don't know how much weight to give it, but I would have thought a SATA III board and hard disk would yield a higher score. Am I correct, or just high? And does it even matter.
My i3's video scored a 5.4, then it said the hardware changed and scored a 4.8, so I don't know what that's all about either, but it doesn't matter for streaming video and playing Deus Ex, as far as I know.
Ulukai on 2/1/2012 at 11:29
With the advent of SSDs, all magnetic hard disk drives look a bit rubbish, SATA III or not. You'll need an SSD to get that score up to 7.9.
I have a score of 5.6 with a bog standard SATA II drive, and it's my worst score of the lot.
lost_soul on 4/1/2012 at 02:54
Yep, barring being very lucky by having requested data stored in the cache of the hard drive, you're not going to get speeds any where CLOSE to SATA 6GB/s from a mechanical drive. Most standard consumer (7200 RPM) drives give you around 150 MB/s. Mine can't even hold transfers at that speed. That is the maximum read-rate it reached in a benchmark. My cheap little SSD got to about 240 MB/s, but it is WAY faster than the hard drive due to a seak time being a fraction of what a mechanical drive is.
If you really want to see what that SATA III system can do, go for something like this. (
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820249014)
I almost went for one, but I got a 37 inch TV (monitor) instead.
