Whats you Vista Score ??

[Spaced_K]

Ive been playing around with Vista for a while now and come across an interesting feature.

If you click your "rating" in Computer - Properties you get a list of scores for individual processes of your PC.

Processor - P4 3.4GHz - 4.0
Memory (RAM) - 1791MB - 3.9
Graphics - Nvidia 5200 GeForce - 2.0
Gaming Graphics - 2.6
Primary Hard Drive - 400GB - 5.0

Giving me an overall score of 2.0 (takes the lowest apparently)

I have no idea what the top score is, but post yours up here and we can get a good idea of what a good spec for Vista is.

:thumbsup:

[Stiggy]

I have a Dell 9150

Processor - P4D 920 2.8GHz - 4.7
Memory (RAM) - 1024MB - 4.5
Graphics - ATi X600 - 4.1
Gaming Graphics - 3.7
Primary Hard Disk - 250GB WD SATAII - 5.4

So my base score is 3.7

[Singh400]

My overall Windows Experience Index is 4.2. I'm currently at college, so I can't give the individual scores, but I do remember my graphics scored 5.9.

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz with HT (530)
RAM: 1024 MB (2x512)
GFX: nVidia 6800 256MB
SFX: Soundblaster Creative Live! 24-bit
HDD: 30gb (partitioned - I'm dual-booting with XP Pro)

Quick way to get to the score/sysprops is to press Winkey + Pause/Break ;)

[Singh400]

My overall Windows Experience Index is 4.2. I'm currently at college, so I can't give the individual scores, but I do remember my graphics scored 5.9.

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz with HT (530)
RAM: 1024 MB (2x512)
GFX: nVidia 6800 256MB
SFX: Soundblaster Creative Live! 24-bit
HDD: 30gb (partitioned - I'm dual-booting with XP Pro)

Quick way to get to the score/sysprops is to press Winkey + Pause/Break ;)
Here are the individual scores:

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/6448/wieut8.th.jpg (http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/6448/wieut8.jpg)

[Spaced_K]

Oh crap, i really need a better graphics card.

And whats up with my RAM, i thought i had a set of decent stuff. 2 x 1GB sticks, obviously not as good as i thought.

[Singh400]

Oh crap, i really need a better graphics card.

And whats up with my RAM, i thought i had a set of decent stuff. 2 x 1GB sticks, obviously not as good as i thought.
Anything above 1536 (1.5 GB) qualifies for high-end vista usage.

Atleast thats what it said in the help file.

[Stiggy]

Anything above 1536 (1.5 GB) qualifies for high-end vista usage.

Atleast thats what it said in the help file.
If you look at the few examples above already, the score must be based in the speed of memory access as well as the amount, or something weird like available virtual memory!

[Singh400]

Anything above 1536 (1.5 GB) qualifies for high-end vista usage.

Atleast thats what it said in the help file.Ok I know where I got this from, I found it again in 5728. Just remembered it different...

<LimitApplied Friendly="Physical memory available to the OS is less than or equal to 1.5GB - limit mem score to 4.5" Relation="LE">1610612736</LimitApplied>

That figures as I've got a 1GB of RAM and much score is 4.5 for RAM (on 5600 & 5728)

[eternaldark]

My overall score for build 5472 was 3.2

Now for build 5728 its 4.0

:confused:

not changed anything so quite happy so far

[Singh400]

My overall score for build 5472 was 3.2

Now for build 5728 its 4.0

:confused:

not changed anything so quite happy so far
They might have tweaked the equation that calculates the WIE base score. That would explain it.

My overall score remains the same as 5600 - 4.2.

[StephenR]

Are these scores out of ten? If so, my 2.9 is not too good despite the fact it seems to running like a dream so far on my 4 year old PC - complete with Aero glass. What kind of monster PC do you need to get a top score? :confused:

[Singh400]

Are these scores out of ten? If so, my 2.9 is not too good despite the fact it seems to running like a dream so far on my 4 year old PC - complete with Aero glass. What kind of monster PC do you need to get a top score? :confused:No one really knows, everyone thought it was out of 5 to begin with, but then sub scores sometimes went up to 5.9 so that went out the window. Expect more information on the Windows Experience Index as Vista goes RTM.

Generally feeling is that it will be used along side system requirements as a more help guideline.

So for example, say your on Vista and your overall score is 3.5. Then you go to the shops and see a nice piece of software, along side the system requirements it would have something like:

Your system needs a Windows Experience Index rating of 4 or more to run this software correctly.

[Pbryanw]

Is anybody having a problem with the WinSat test whereby it freezes when it gets to testing your HD's? The only information I've heard about this is that it might be related to me having installed Vista on a secondary HD but, the strange thing is, the test worked on the Beta 2 version of Vista :confused:

[drummerjohn]

Where can I get this testing thing? I downloaded Vista Advisor and got no score just advice.

[Pbryanw]

Where can I get this testing thing? I downloaded Vista Advisor and got no score just advice.
It's built into Vista. If you download and install the Vista RC1 preview (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx) that's floating around the 'net, the first thing it does after you've installed it is run the test (Winsat) and gives your PC a score based on various categories. But, again, only if you install Vista.

[Singh400]

It's built into Vista. If you download and install the Vista RC1 preview (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx) that's floating around the 'net, the first thing it does after you've installed it is run the test (Winsat) and gives your PC a score based on various categories. But, again, only if you install Vista.
You can run WinSAT on XP too.

[Pbryanw]

You can run WinSAT on XP too.
You're absolutely right :smashin: I assumed it was Vista only but it comes included with the new Vista Upgrade Advisor. That's what I get for not reading up on the subject :)

Anyway to use it in XP, first install the newest version of Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx), (if you haven't already) then you need to open a command prompt. To do this go to start menu, go to run, type in CMD and press enter. Then using the cd command go to the folder Vista Upgrade Adviser is in (it should be "C:\Program files\Microsoft Windows Vista Advisor\"). Then enter this command for a fancy graphics backdrop - similar to what you see when you first install Vista: "Winsat aurora" (without the quotes).

You can then use this command to run tests on various parts of your OS and Hardware. For a full list of commands, and subcommands, for the Winsat command try this website (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QTFairUse). Unfortunately, I don't see a way to produce a lovely graphical presentation - with marks for each sub-section - like you can in Vista.

[Singh400]

You're absolutely right :smashin: I assumed it was Vista only but it comes included with the new Vista Upgrade Advisor. That's what I get for not reading up on the subject :)

Anyway to use it in XP, first install the newest version of Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx), (if you haven't already) then you need to open a command prompt. To do this go to start menu, go to run, type in CMD and press enter. Then using the cd command go to the folder Vista Upgrade Adviser is in (it should be "C:\Program files\Microsoft Windows Vista Advisor\"). Then enter this command for a fancy graphics backdrop - similar to what you see when you first install Vista: "Winsat aurora" (without the quotes).

You can then use this command to run tests on various parts of your OS and Hardware. For a full list of commands, and subcommands, for the Winsat command try this website (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QTFairUse). Unfortunately, I don't see a way to produce a lovely graphical presentation - with marks for each sub-section - like you can in Vista.
You can take any build of WinSAT from any build of longhron/vista and it will work on XP. You have the luxury of the winsat help file now, before I had to manually find the commands (before beta 1) using hexworkshop.

You don't need to install Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor to get WinSAT.

Microsoft also presented a new tool called WinSAT. A generic benchmark utility that will analyze a given Longhorn PC to determine what features of Longhorn can be enabled. The tools can analyze parts of the OS such as Direct3D performance, the compositing engine, Memory performance and Hard drive speeds. The results are stored in XML files an since the tool is maintaining a history of these files, other applications can parse these logs and make decisions for themselves what features to enable. The WinHEC version of Longhorn already includes the first alpha version of WinSAT and everyone is encouraged to try out this new tool. (just type “WinSAT.exe” from the command line in Longhorn). For this release you still have to be logged in as an administrator to run the tool. In later versions this will be allowed for limited users – if the general Enterprise Policy has not blocked the tool. One other very interesting thing is that this tool currently runs on Windows XP as well. Just copy the WinSAT.EXE to your XP machine and run it. I will give this a try right after WinHEC

[Singh400]

Just found the blog post by members of the Vista dev team on the subject of the WEI - http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/articles/458117.aspx

VERY good read.

[Barbarosa]

CPC - Athlon 4200x2 - 5.1
RAM - 2Gb - 4.8
HDD - 250Gb / 140 Free - 4.0
Graphics - 6600GT - 5.9

Overall Rating 4

[jljeeper]

CPU - P4D-2.8GHz - 4.8
RAM - 1GB - 4.5
HDD - 150GB RaptorX - 5.9
Graphics - ATI AIW X600 - 4.3
Gaming Graphics - 3.7

Overall Rating 3.7

Need a better video card? Looks great to me

Runnig tripple boot with XP and Vista2

[Stanley_Cooper]

Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+ 4.2
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB 4.9
Graphics RADEON X800 GTO 5.9
Gaming graphics 1023 MB Total available graphics memory 4.9
Primary hard disk 400GB 4.9

Overal rating 4.2.

I'm thinking I could do with a faster processor. Ah well.

Strange it comes up with this amount of ram for the gfx card especially when it's only got 256!.

Stan..

[anobium]

I cant get your way to work, do you have to run dos outside of windows it says this program is not recognised as an internal or external program?? my comand prompt always syays at c:\ documents and settings\my name

[MattyMustng]

Core 2 Duo e6400 (Overclocked to 2.66 ghz - plan to do more later), Asus P5b Deluxe, 2 gigs PC5300 RAM, 7600 GT Factory overclocked video card, 320 GB SATA II hard drive, X Fi Fatal1ty.

http://img475.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vistascore55se1.jpg

[Singh400]

Still 0.3 points off the highest score yet - http://www.shareyourscore.com/

[chistery]

Just built my new PC...

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/4030/vistascorexg4.th.jpg (http://img517.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vistascorexg4.jpg)

got some tweaking to do on the memory by the look of it!

[Steve.J.Davies]

Just found the blog post by members of the Vista dev team on the subject of the WEI - http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/articles/458117.aspx

VERY good read.

The hardware vendors must love it - easy sales or what.

[Singh400]

The hardware vendors must love it - easy sales or what.
Errrrrr no, Microsoft decide the scores. Not hardware vendors. And they regurarly keeping updating the underlying forumla. So the 8800 in a few years time could only score 2-3 instead of what it scores now (5.9)

[Uridium]

Errrrrr no, Microsoft decide the scores. Not hardware vendors. And they regurarly keeping updating the underlying forumla. So the 8800 in a few years time could only score 2-3 instead of what it scores now (5.9)

You don't think there will be plenty of people buying new hardware just to improve there scores....

As S.J.Davies said...

"The hardware vendors must love it - easy sales or what"

[guido]

Index Base Score 3.5

Modified Dell OptiPlex GX260

Processor (P4 2.8GHz): 3.5
Memory (PC2700 768Mb): 3.9
Graphics (Nvidia 128Mb 6600GT AGP): 5.9
Gaming Graphics (Nvidia 128Mb 6600GT AGP): 4.8
Primary Hard Disk (Maxtor 40Gb ATA133 ): 5.3

Also have Leadtek DVT1000T Freeview Card and Highpoint RocketRAID133 for 2 x 120Gb ATA133 striped drives for data.

Getting a bit long in the tooth now but still runs nicely. Linked to Samsung 215TW 21" monitor which is :smashin:

[Steve.J.Davies]

Errrrrr no, Microsoft decide the scores. Not hardware vendors. And they regurarly keeping updating the underlying forumla. So the 8800 in a few years time could only score 2-3 instead of what it scores now (5.9)

You really think that M/S and hardware vendors do not have joint interests ? ?
Do you work for M/S ?

[Steve.J.Davies]

belay that - just checked profile. you doing Computer Science ? ?

[<^>J*O*E<^>]

Component Details Subscore Base score

Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ 5 4.5
Memory (RAM) 1.0GB 4.5
Graphics Radeon X1900 Series 5.9
Gaming graphics 764MB Total available graphics memory 5.8
Primary hard disk 232.9GB Total 5.5
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate (build: 6.0.5600)

System
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Manufacturer System manufacturer
Model System Product Name
Total amount of system memory 1.0GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2
64-bit capable Yes

Graphics
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Display adapter type Radeon X1900 Series
Total available graphics memory 764MB
Dedicated graphics memory 509MB
Dedicated system memory 0MB
Shared system memory 255MB
Display adapter driver version
Primary monitor resolution 1280x1024
DirectX version DirectX 9.0 or better




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Last rating: Saturday, January 06, 2007
Comments: Need better memory.

[Singh400]

You don't think there will be plenty of people buying new hardware just to improve there scores....

As S.J.Davies said...

"The hardware vendors must love it - easy sales or what"
I sure as hell won't be. Only idoits will buy a new card, because of a score given to a card. I'd only buy a new card if I could see that my current card couldn't handle vista.

[Steve.J.Davies]

I sure as hell won't be. Only idoits will buy a new card, because of a score given to a card. I'd only buy a new card if I could see that my current card couldn't handle vista.
And that is exactly why they do this.... kerr-ching !

[Singh400]

Do you work for M/S ?

Why do you think that? Because Microsoft actually has someone fighting in the corner for a change? Rather than jumping on the bandwagon driven by idoits. I prefer to make my own decisions.

And no I don't work for Microsoft (Although Bill if your reading this give me a call :P :grin: :rotfl: )

[happhhitachi]

AMD 2800+ 3.5
Memory (1Gb) 4.1
Graphics RV530 (Radeon x1600 or 1650 cant remember - 256Mb) 5.9
Gaming graphics 5.2
Primary hard disk (2x 250Gb WD RE drives RAID stripe) 5.9
* RAID kicks ass!

overall 3.5

Gonna add another 1Gb RAM as this is cheap - empty slot.
Gonns add a 1Gb USB memory stick for ReadyBoost - looking for a fast pen drive.

Only put RC1 on last night - still assessing real world performance.

BTW - anybody know the limitations/restrictions on buying Vista in OEM form?:lease:

[vince_vega]

i got a grand total of 4.4! i dont know if this is good or bad!!!!!
processor 4.4 (p4 3.4 ghz ht)
memory 4.9 (2gb pc3200)
graphics 5.9 (radeon x800xt 256mb)
gaming graphics 4.9
hard disk 5.2 (maxtor 250gb 7200 rpm)

[mr_fsu_guy]

Component Details Subscore Base score
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz 5.1
Memory (RAM) 1.98 GB 5.5
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 5.9
Gaming graphics 1527 MB Total available graphics memory 5.9
Primary hard disk 222GB Free (233GB Total) 5.5
Windows Vista (TM) Business

5.1 Determined by lowest subscore

[vince_vega]

how can an X800XT score the same as an 8800GTX????????

[dejongj]

I installed Ultimate on my now three year old laptop.....And are actually quite impressed with how responsive it is....Though still can't find anything 'new' in Vista compared to what XP can do....But anyway here are my scores....

Processor (P4 3Ghz): 4.0
Memory (2x512Mb DDR2): 4.5
Graphics (ATI 9700 128Mb) desktop for Aero: 4.0
Gaming Graphics (ATI 9700 128Mb): 3.8
Primary hard disk (60Gb 7200rpm): 4.4

Not bad for a 3 year old laptop I think...

But that was before I enabled Readyboost, and now the scores are bugger all difference.....In an early Beta I ran Readyboost made a big difference, now I can't tell the difference....

[PAH]

Processor (Core 2 Duo E6300) : 4.8
Ram (2 x Crucial 1gb DDR2 PC2-5300): 5.3
Graphics (onboard mobo Asus P5LD2-VM): 3.3
Hard Disk (Seagate 7200.10 320GB SATAII): 5.7

Overall 3.3, let down by onboard graphics as expected.

[misterjingo]

Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ 4.8
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB 4.9
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) 5.9
Gaming graphics 527 MB Total available graphics memory 5.5
Primary hard disk 40GB Free (59GB Total) 5.4
(have 300 gig spare on other disks, but doesn't detect this)

Overall 4.8

[Norman]

It's interesting that the same CPU is giving slightly differant performance figures on other platforms.

Processor AMD Athlon 64 x2 4600+ 5.0
Memory (RAM) 2047MB 5.9
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT 5.9
Gaming graphics 5.9
Primary hard disk 222GB Free (233GB Total) 5.3

Overall Score 5.0

Windows Vista (TM) Business
Motherboard ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe

[guido]

Just upgraded CPU from P4 2.4GHz to P4 3.06GHz with HT.

Processor changed from 3.5 to 4.1
and stangely memory from 3.9 to 4.0

So new base score of 4.0
Will upgrade RAM to 2Gb soon as 768 doesnt cut it running Virtual Machines on Vista.


Index Base Score 3.5

Modified Dell OptiPlex GX260

Processor (P4 2.4GHz): 3.5
Memory (PC2700 768Mb): 3.9
Graphics (Nvidia 128Mb 6600GT AGP): 5.9
Gaming Graphics (Nvidia 128Mb 6600GT AGP): 4.8
Primary Hard Disk (Maxtor 40Gb ATA133 ): 5.3

Also have Leadtek DVT1000T Freeview Card and Highpoint RocketRAID133 for 2 x 120Gb ATA133 striped drives for data.

Getting a bit long in the tooth now but still runs nicely. Linked to Samsung 215TW 21" monitor which is :smashin:

[mikeaitch]

My scores:

Processor AMD Athlon 64 x2 4400+ 4.9
Memory (RAM) 2047MB 4.6
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT 5.9
Gaming graphics 5.7
Primary hard disk 2GB Free (233GB Total) 5.9

Overall Score 4.6

Windows Vista RTM Ultimate
Motherboard ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe
Only using 1 of 2 graphics cards (no SLI driver)

Always thought my memory was quite good (Cas 2 Corsair TwinX 2-2-2-5 Pro Series) but not according to this!

Would replacing/increasing memory do anything for my system, rather than this score?

[SGH42]

Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz 4.8
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB 5.2
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) 4.9
Gaming graphics 783 MB Total available graphics memory 4.8
Primary hard disk 196GB Free (273GB Total) 5.3
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium

Overall 4.8

[GarryF]

Always thought my memory was quite good (Cas 2 Corsair TwinX 2-2-2-5 Pro Series) but not according to this!


my memory score jumped from about what yours was to 5.9 when I added the timings of the memory into the bios, worth trying if you haven't already

[GarryF]

System 1
Thinkpad T43p (approx 15 months old)
Processor PM760(2GHz) - 3.9
2GB Ram - 4.4
Graphics FireGL V3200 - 3.9
Gaming - 3.6
Hard Disk 60gb 7200rpm - 4.7

System 2
My 1 month old gaming PC
Processor C2D E6600 2.4GHz running at 3.0GHz - 5.7 (5.5 unclocked)
2GB Ram - 5.9
Graphics 8800GTX - 5.9
gaming - 5.9
Twin raid0 raptor 150gb - 5.9

[mjn]

Base score of 4.2, but VGA, HDD, and gaming graphics are all 5.9, just let down by CPU and RAM.

[allosunshine]

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz 5.3
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB 5.6
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) 5.9
Gaming graphics 527 MB Total available graphics memory 5.4
Primary hard disk 132GB Free (220GB Total) 5.4
Overall = 5.3

I can't believe that probably the best bit of kit in the machine gets the lowest score!!!

[mjn]

Primary hard disk (2x 250Gb WD RE drives RAID stripe) 5.9
* RAID kicks ass!


Not really, i get that score on a single HDD.

[vwdubman]

My Score is

Processor AMD FX60 (939) - 5.2
RAM (2.75Gb) - 4.6
Graphics nVidia 7950GX2 - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.8
Primary HDD (250Gb) - 5.4

Overall = 4.6

My original score was 5.2 (on 2Gb RAM) but came down when I increased the RAM.

[K86]

Hey

CPU: AMD Athlon X2 64Bit 4800+ - 4.9
RAM: 2GB -4.9
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT 256MB - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.7
HDD: 300GB with 16MB cache - 5.3

Overall 4.9

I thought my CPU would get more (maybe installing the AMD driver will help?) but I kind of expected a bit lower for the RAM

K86

[Singh400]

If you have 1.5 GB RAM or less you score for RAM will be limited to 4.5.

[DevinTheDood]

Processor: Intel Core Duo EX6800 2x 2.93 -5.6
Memery: 2 Gigs of OCZ DDR2 800 -5.5
Graphics: x1900xtx -5.9
Gaming Graphics: x1900xtx -5.8
Hard Disk:Maxtor 186Gigs -5.5
Overall -5.5

When I Overclock my CPU the score doesent change Same with MEMORY.
Does anyone have a 6 for anything and if so then what.

[darren_eaf]

Is there a way of finding the rating without installing vista?

The advisor only seems to tell me what in my pc will work, can't find anywhere for score?

[Singh400]

Is there a way of finding the rating without installing vista?

The advisor only seems to tell me what in my pc will work, can't find anywhere for score?
You could try WinSAT, it won't give you a score or nothing.

[spikerules]

Macbook pro

4.7 overall

[pablo99]

Does anyone have a 6 for anything and if so then what.


Not while the scores are "out of 5.9"

Or at least thats the way I read the way it works.

Pablo

[Singh400]

Just installed Vista. Same as before.

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/9557/untitledmv1.png

[Grumble]

Looks like 5.9 is the max for any one item:rolleyes:

[GarryF]

I read somewhere that 5.9 is currently the max but they will approximately once a year increas the scale, so with service pack 1 the max might then be 7.9 as equipment improves.

There are also other caps like if you have 1gb of ram you can only score 4.5 no matter how fast it is.

[Singh400]

There are also other caps like if you have 1gb of ram you can only score 4.5 no matter how fast it is.

Yup, I know...

Ok I know where I got this from, I found it again in 5728. Just remembered it different...

<LimitApplied Friendly="Physical memory available to the OS is less than or equal to 1.5GB - limit mem score to 4.5" Relation="LE">1610612736</LimitApplied>

That figures as I've got a 1GB of RAM and much score is 4.5 for RAM (on 5600 & 5728)

[durk]

Heres mine! my vista scores that is!;)

[mmarkym]

Processor - 6600 @ 3.6GHz - 5.9
Memory (RAM) - 2Gb ultra low latency 800 mhz running @ 1000 - 5.9
Graphics - Nvidia 8800 GTX - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.9
Primary Hard Drive - 2x WD Raptors (10k) 150gb in a RAID stripe (0) array - 5.9

Giving me an overall score of 5.9 :cool:

Want the new targets now, not in 12-18 months time!:(

[mikeaitch]

Processor - 6600 @ 3.6GHz - 5.9
Memory (RAM) - 2Gb ultra low latency 800 mhz running @ 1000 - 5.9
Graphics - Nvidia 8800 GTX - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.9
Primary Hard Drive - 2x WD Raptors (10k) 150gb in a RAID stripe (0) array - 5.9

Giving me an overall score of 5.9 :cool:

Want the new targets now, not in 12-18 months time!:(

Curious- thats EXACTLY the spec I'm just about to change to :hiya:

My current scores:
Processor AMD Athlon 64 x2 4400+ 4.9
Memory (RAM) 2047MB 4.6
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT 5.9
Gaming graphics 5.7
Primary hard disk 12GB Free (74GB Total) 5.9

Overall Score 4.6


How does it perform, would you change anything?

[mmarkym]

Curious- thats EXACTLY the spec I'm just about to change to :hiya:

How does it perform, would you change anything?

I would suggest you purchase a decent mobo for overclocking to these speeds, I have an EVGA 680i SLI and can recomend it.

I would buy a quad core, if i could afford it, also another 8800 for SLI - lets be realistic here though, what do you want out of your PC? I want to be able to drool over my games, and I do, for now. Lets wait and see what DX10 games can deliver though!

If you want a true performance tool for your PC, try 3Dscore '06 - I get around the 12k mark :)

[Singh400]

Processor - 6600 @ 3.6GHz - 5.9
Memory (RAM) - 2Gb ultra low latency 800 mhz running @ 1000 - 5.9
Graphics - Nvidia 8800 GTX - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.9
Primary Hard Drive - 2x WD Raptors (10k) 150gb in a RAID stripe (0) array - 5.9

Giving me an overall score of 5.9 :cool:

Want the new targets now, not in 12-18 months time!:(
http://www.shareyourscore.com/ ;)

[mikeaitch]

I would suggest you purchase a decent mobo for overclocking to these speeds, I have an EVGA 680i SLI and can recomend it.

I would buy a quad core, if i could afford it, also another 8800 for SLI - lets be realistic here though, what do you want out of your PC? I want to be able to drool over my games, and I do, for now. Lets wait and see what DX10 games can deliver though!

If you want a true performance tool for your PC, try 3Dscore '06 - I get around the 12k mark :)

I was just pondering whether to get 2 8800 GS instead of one 8800 GTX, don't know it that would be better. From my PC, I want to be able to play stuff like Crysis or nxt gen games without having to stump up again, and i want a top notch HTPC for my forthcoming 1080 projector

Anyway, as this is off topic, perhaps I'll start a new thread...

[mmarkym]

This puts the power of the PC into context - It can convert (on the fly) divx files into wmv's so my xbox 360 can play them, while upscaling to 720p - blew me away, and i am VERY happy - new thread please :)

[andy_dandy]

Here's my score, details below

CPU - X6800 Dual Core @2.93 - due to be replaced with EE Quad-Core
MEM - 4Gb of XMS2 Dominator PC2-6400C3 (running at Cas5) (long story)

Running x86 version at the moment until my new chassis arrives when ill goto X64 version

[andy_dandy]

Here's the score off my laptop, 5.9 in gfx is not half bad.
Gfx card is the ATI-X1800 Mobility.
Its running Vista x64 Ultimate with 4Gb RAM (3.25 shows due to shared resources etc!)

[Gazza-UK]

Mine are as follows:

Processor - Athlon 64 X2 4600 Dual Core - 4.9

Memory - 2GB Corsair - 4.9

Graphics - GeForce 7600 GS 256MB - 4.3 :(

Gaming Graphics - 4.4

Primary Hard Disk - Seagate Barracuda 320GB SATA II 16MB cache - 5.8

I thought my Graphics score would have been higher than that to be honest. Wondering if when the proper Vista drivers are released by Nvida (end of this month for my card).... if the score will be better?

[nukey]

Base score - 5.0 - Determined by lowest subscore

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz 5.3
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB 5.0
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) 5.9
Gaming graphics 527 MB Total available graphics memory 5.8
Primary hard disk 8GB Free (39GB Total) 5.3

Suppose I should try overclocking my memory!

[bagpuss22]

Base score 4.2 :mad:

CPU: 4.3 AMD64 3700+ Clocked @ 2.7Ghz
Memory: 5.8 XMS PC4000 Clocked at 240Mhz
Graphics: 5.9 Sapphire X1950Pro 256Meg
HDisk: 4.2 Maxtor 160Gig SATAII :confused: :confused:

If I try this HDisk on another machine I get 5.0!!! Is this a motherbaord
issue?? I am using a MSI K8N SLI Platinum.....

Thanks.

Russ P.

[shaithis]

Base score 5.7

CPU: 5.7 (Intel E6600 @ 3.4GHz)
Memory: 5.9 (4GB OCZ PC6400)
Graphics: 5.9 (GeForce 8800GTX)
Disk: 5.9 (1TB PCI-E RAID5)

[sth270355]

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.66GHz 5.9
Memory (RAM) 3.50 GB 5.5
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 5.9
Gaming graphics 1407 MB Total available graphics memory 5.9
Primary hard disk 173GB Free (298GB Total) 5.4

Base Score 5.4
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate



Steve Thorpe

[mikeall]

well here is my score attached below


mike

[roadcred]

Sony VaioVGN_AR11S

Intel CoreDuo T2500,2.00Ghtz 4.7

1Gb DDR2 SDRAM(533MHz) 4.5

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600GT/256MB 5.9

Gaming graphics 5.2

200GB/Go (2*100GB/Go) 5.5

Overall Score therefore 4.5

[stevedster]

Base score 4
CPU: 4
Memory: 4.5
Graphics: 5.5
Gaming: 4.7
Disk: 5.3

[tapzilla2k]

Base score: 4.5
CPU: 4.9
Memory: 4.5
Graphics: 5.9
Gaming graphics: 5.4
Disk: 5.4

[guido]

So I started off with Index Base Score 3.5

Modified Dell OptiPlex GX260

Processor (P4 2.4GHz): 3.5
Memory (PC2700 768Mb): 3.9
Graphics (Nvidia 128Mb 6600GT AGP): 5.9
Gaming Graphics (Nvidia 128Mb 6600GT AGP): 4.8
Primary Hard Disk (Maxtor 40Gb ATA133 ): 5.3

Then upgraded CPU from P4 2.4GHz to P4 3.06GHz with HT.

Processor changed from 3.5 to 4.1
and stangely memory from 3.9 to 4.0

So new base score of 4.0

Now upgraded to 2GB RAM. PC3200 OCZ Platinum.

BUT Score has now gone down!!! :lease:

Processor (P4 3.06GHz): 4.2
Memory (PC3200 2048Mb): 3.5
Graphics (Nvidia 128Mb 6600GT AGP): 5.5
Gaming Graphics (Nvidia 128Mb 6600GT AGP): 4.2
Primary Hard Disk (Maxtor 40Gb ATA133 ): 5.3

Base score gone back down to 3.5 :suicide:

*** :eek:

[GarryF]

Check your settings for ram in the bios if there any, might change the score. I've seen mine test at 5.9, then 5.0 then 5.4

[guido]

Check your settings for ram in the bios if there any, might change the score. I've seen mine test at 5.9, then 5.0 then 5.4

Thanks... have checked... doesnt let me change anything.. just reports Memory speed 266MHz... which is odd... as supposed to be 400MHz for PC3200???

Also when I run CPUZ, this reports for each module:
DDR, PC3200 (200 MHz), 1024 MBytes, OCZ

2Gb is going to be better than 768Mb I had before as less swapping... but its odd about the speeds... will have to do some more digging. Going to try a Readyboost USB Stick as well.. just to see what this does to scores.

[Malabbey]

I have a base score of just 2.1 but everything is working fine on Vista Ultimate.

[andycorleone]

Base score 5.1

CPU: 5.1 (Intel E6600 @ 3.2GHz) (without overclock yet :smashin: )
Memory: 5.9 (.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 )
Graphics: 5.9 (GeForce 8800GTX)
Disk: 5.2 (2x Western Digital Caviar RE 250GB 2500YS RAID 1 )

[GarryF]

Base score 5.1

CPU: 5.1 (Intel E6600 @ 3.2GHz) (without overclock yet :smashin: )
Memory: 5.9 (.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 )
Graphics: 5.9 (GeForce 8800GTX)
Disk: 5.2 (2x Western Digital Caviar RE 250GB 2500YS RAID 1 )

E6600 runs at 2.4GHz stock I thought

[andycorleone]

E6600 runs at 2.4GHz stock I thought

yes you are righ I just notice that my processor is the E6400 and also notice that I didn't installed vista in the RAID drive so I'm going to update the results later :god:

[Crustyloafer]

Here is my score.

CPU: 5.3 (Intel E6600 @ 2.4GHz)
Memory: 5.4 (Geil 2GB DDR2 PC2-6400 )
Graphics: 5.9 (GeForce 8800GTS)
Disk: 5.9 (2x 400 Gb Samsung HD401LJ Spinpoint T RAID 0 )

[arfster]

CPU: 5.7 (C2D @ 3ghz)
Memory: 4.9 (2gb pc2-6400)
Gaming graphics: 4.8 (6600GT 128mb PCI-E, 100.65 drivers)
Aero graphics: 5.7
Disk:5.6 (Western Digitial SATA2 500GB)


Memory is underclocked, running at 667mhz with loose timings, cos I'm fiddling with overclock settings. Once I tighten them up and set it to 800mhz, it'll be quite a bit higher.

Quite surprising the aero graphics performance is so good - I guess much of it is down to CPU speed.

[mikeaitch]

Processor - 6600 @ 3.6GHz - 5.9
Memory (RAM) - 2Gb ultra low latency 800 mhz running @ 1000 - 5.9
Graphics - Nvidia 8800 GTX - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.9
Primary Hard Drive - 2x WD Raptors (10k) 150gb in a RAID stripe (0) array - 5.9

Giving me an overall score of 5.9 :cool:

Want the new targets now, not in 12-18 months time!:(

Got the same system, as I said. score is 5.5 for the processor though

Any chance of a peek at your settings for overclocking your 6600?

[lisa burrell]

mine is 3.4 I cant make up my mind whether to buy a second dvd/cd rom as i like copying from disc to disc. or buy a 250gb second sata hard drive or pay the £64 to upgrade from Basic to home for the jazzy features is it worth the money?

[Chris.Day]

Dell Dimension E521 + 2GB Crucial DDR2 667 kit

Processor (A64 X2 3800+ AM2) - 4.8
Memory (3GB DDR2@533 4-4-4-12) - 5.7
Graphics (GeForce 7300LE TurboCache) - 3.8
Gaming graphics - 3.2
Primary Hard Disk (WD2500JS-75NCB3 ) - 5.3

[conchur]

Gutted: my Dell Precision 690 doesn't support dual-channel memory, so my 4GB memory is stuck at a score of 4.7

Everything else is 5.9! (8 xeon 2.66 cores, 8800GTX, SAS Raid 1 HDDs...)

[nickyboyc]

My system is as follows

CPU - AM2 Athlon x2 5200+
RAM - 2GB PC6400 - 1gb of each
Graphics - Radeon X850 PCI Express
Hard drive - 2x 250gb SATA Drives

And I got the score as attached

[Sonic67]

Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop

Processor - AMD Turion 64X2 TL-50 = 4.6
RAM - 894MB free. (It's 1GB but graphics is robbing some. It's due to be upgraded to 2GB total soon anyway.) = 3.9
Graphics - ATi Radeon Xpress 1150 = 2.9
Gaming Graphics = 3.1
Hard drive - Samsung 120Gb = 4.4

Base Score = 2.9

[Spaced_K]

I have just got my new Dell PC and my scores have changed to this :

Processor - 5.1
Memory (RAM) - 2GB - 5.4
Graphics - ATI Radeon X1300 Pro - 4.7
Gaming Graphics - 4.2
Primary Hard Drive - 320GB - 5.4

with a base score of 4.2

[Singh400]

I have just got my new Dell PC and my scores have changed to this :

Processor - 5.1
Memory (RAM) - 2GB - 5.4
Graphics - ATI Radeon X1300 Pro - 4.7
Gaming Graphics - 4.2
Primary Hard Drive - 320GB - 5.4

with a base score of 4.2
Freaky, my Dell scores 4.2 aswell! :eek:

[Spaced_K]

What you got?

I just bought the very smart looking E520 with Core 2 Duo Viiv E6300, with 2GB RAM and the X130 GFX Card.

Still debating whether or not to put in my Geforce 7600 GS, which will no doubt give me a better score, but i had a few hiccups on XP (kept bluescreening).
I was also going to boost my RAM to 4GB but the new one takes DDR2 and i only got DDR. :mad:
And then i was going to add my 300GB IDE drive, and found out that the new one is SATA. :mad:
Thank god i got a decent spec as it would cost me loads to upgrade from that.

[treacle]

What you got?
Still debating whether or not to put in my Geforce 7600 GS, which will no doubt give me a better score, but i had a few hiccups on XP (kept bluescreening).


I'm using Geforce 7600 GS,in my Vista Premiun,
No problems, decent card.

5.9 Graphics
4.9 Gaming Graphics

[Singh400]

What you got?

I just bought the very smart looking E520 with Core 2 Duo Viiv E6300, with 2GB RAM and the X130 GFX Card.

Still debating whether or not to put in my Geforce 7600 GS, which will no doubt give me a better score, but i had a few hiccups on XP (kept bluescreening).
I was also going to boost my RAM to 4GB but the new one takes DDR2 and i only got DDR. :mad:
And then i was going to add my 300GB IDE drive, and found out that the new one is SATA. :mad:
Thank god i got a decent spec as it would cost me loads to upgrade from that.
Too lazy to type it all out again - I posted my specs somewhere in this thread.

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/9557/untitledmv1.th.png (http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/9557/untitledmv1.png)
(click to make bigger)

Not bad for a 2 year old PC. :grin:

[Spaced_K]

I'm using Geforce 7600 GS,in my Vista Premiun,
No problems, decent card.

5.9 Graphics
4.9 Gaming Graphics

Yeah, but im sure there are people who didnt have problems with it in XP. But it made my PC unusable for some reason.
And for the sake of 0.7 in gaming graphics, i dont think i'll bother.

:thumbsup:

[Sonic67]

Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop

Processor - AMD Turion 64X2 TL-50 = 4.6
RAM - 894MB free. (It's 1GB but graphics is robbing some. It's due to be upgraded to 2GB total soon anyway.) = 3.9
Graphics - ATi Radeon Xpress 1150 = 2.9
Gaming Graphics = 3.1
Hard drive - Samsung 120Gb = 4.4

Base Score = 2.9


Upgrade made a slight difference. I now have 2GB of faster memory.

Processor - AMD Turion 64X2 TL-50 = 4.6
RAM (1918MB) = 5.1
Graphics - ATi Radeon Xpress 1150 = 3.0
Gaming Graphics = 3.1
Hard drive - Samsung 120Gb = 4.4

Base Score = 3.0

RAM score has shot up and graphics score increased slightly. Feels better to use too. :smashin:

[Spaced_K]

I have just installed a new Sapphire X1950GT graphics card and gone from this :

Graphics - ATI Radeon X1300 Pro - 4.7
Gaming Graphics - 4.2

to this :

Processor - Intel Core 2 2.13GHz 5.1
Memory (RAM) - 2GB - 5.4
Graphics - ATI Radeon X1950GT - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.7
Primary Hard Drive - 320GB - 5.4

with a base score of 5.1

A HUGE jump in graphics power.
Got an X1800 aswell, so going to compare that with this one.


:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[spice2019]

CPU - X2 4600+ - 4.9
RAM - 2GB Geil- 4.9
HDD - Hitachi Sata2 - 5.4
Graphics - Gainward 7900GT - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.8

4.9

[Seanshadyuk]

My mesh computers matrix2 6000+ upgraded with crucial ballistix and NVIDIA 8600GT

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ = 5.5 (7% overclock from 3.0ghz to 3.2ghz made no difference in score)
Crucial ballistix 2gb ddr2 667 @4-4-4-12 2t = 5.9
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256mb (1022mb available) = 5.9 aero and 5.5 gaming
500gb Sata 428gb free = 5.8

bit dissapointed my motherboard does not support pci-e x16 only x8 so i could not upgrade the gpu to anything higher :(

processor score seems abit low when compared with the 5000+ model especially with the overclock to 3.2ghz :s would processor performance improve with a 64bit edition of vista???

[HCK]

Self Built PC

Processor -AMD 3800+ 4.8
RAM - 2GB 5.8
Graphics - 8600GT 5.9
Gaming Graphics 5.5
Hard Disk - Raptor 74gb 5.7

Other:

Abit Fatality AN8 SLi mobo, 2x WD 160GB Raid0

[a4lloxo]

self built PC-overall score of 5.0

processor AMD X23800+ - 5.0
Ram 2gb G.skill NQ - 5.9
graphics for aero 2X1950 pro 5.9
gaming graphics 2X1950 pro 5.7
Primary hard disc 250gb sata 2 5.4

interestingly my gaming score didnt change despite running two 1950s in crossfire

all scores on vista x64 ultimate

[springtide]

Asus P5N32-E SLI NF680i SLI, S 775
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, Socket 775
Zalman CNPS9700-NT nVidia Tritium
320MB XFX 8800GTS XT, PCI-E (x16)
2GB (2x1GB) Corsair Twinx XMS2, DDR
74 Gb Western Digital WD740ADFD Rap

Component Details Subscore Base score: 5.6

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.92GHz (21% overclock): 5.6
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB: 5.9
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS: 5.9
Gaming graphics 1022 MB Total available graphics memory: 5.9
Primary hard disk 40GB Free (69GB Total): 5.9

Overclocking to 3.3Ghz didn't seem to change my CPU Score!
37% overclock and still very stable, even without changing any voltages etc.
Getting old, so back to running my new 2.92GHz "stock" frequency!

[RL123]

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80GHz - 4.8
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB - 4.8
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT - 4.9
Gaming graphics 1022 MB Total available graphics memory - 5.2
Primary hard disk 273GB Free (297GB Total) - 5.7

Overall: 4.8

[Mr Footlong]

Processor - Q6600@3Ghz - 5.9
Memory (RAM) - 2Gb DDR1000 4-4-4-12 - 5.9
Graphics - Geforce 8800GTX - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.9
Primary Hard Drive - 1Tb 250Gbx4 raid 0 - 5.9
Base Score - 5.9

I do wonder if the scoring system cannot actually go higher that 5.9 at this point.

[Singh400]

Processor - Q6600@3Ghz - 5.9
Memory (RAM) - 2Gb DDR1000 4-4-4-12 - 5.9
Graphics - Geforce 8800GTX - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.9
Primary Hard Drive - 1Tb 250Gbx4 raid 0 - 5.9
Base Score - 5.9

I do wonder if the scoring system cannot actually go higher that 5.9 at this point.
Well duh, the highest is 5.9. Expect new ranges to be added as new hardware is released.

[Mr Footlong]

Well duh

Excuse me? What was the need for that and why would you expect the current maximum to end in a . value and not a whole number, like 6?

[Singh400]

:grin: Don't take the offensive way, I didn't mean it - relax :smashin: If you search around Microsoft blogs, specially on WinSAT related issues. You'll see that the highest score is currently 5.9 and no higher.

[Uridium]

Excuse me? What was the need for that and why would you expect the current maximum to end in a . value and not a whole number, like 6?

you do have a fair point, 5.9 or even 6 for that matter is a bizarre number to stop at.

[Mr Footlong]

I had seen bits about the numbering being upped in the future but hadn't seen anything concrete stating that 5.9 was the max and not 6 when I had a brief google back then. Lol it would makes sense non?

[Singh400]

Read the following...

The scale of the Windows Experience Index ranges from 1 to 5.9. The higher the score for a particular component area, the better experience you can expect from that area.

The scale is useful when comparing hardware components and when comparing whole PCs. The scale was created so that a full score point of improvement usually means significant additional capabilities in the particular sub area, while a better fractional score means an incremental improvement. The integer number of a base score is referred to as the Windows Experience Index level. For example a PC with a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.3 is considered a level 5 PC.

Over time, as systems become more advanced, we expect to introduce higher levels of 6 and beyond. This will be done approximately every 12-18 months, as new innovations in hardware become available. When new base scores are introduced, existing scores will not change (i.e. a PC with a base scored of 2.2 today will score a 2.2 in the new updated index, unless its components are upgraded).

Base scores of 6.0 and higher are not defined yet. They will be defined when the time comes and new innovations in hardware allow new capabilities. From past experience, it is expected this will happen at a rate of once every 12-18 months.

[Uridium]

Read the following...

Yes have seen it many times :rolleyes:

Still doesn't answer the question why 5.9 was chosen as the highest gold release score though does it.

Just seems like a bit of a plucked out of the air number

[Cable Monkey]

Or maybe it was chosen as a sensible point which can be raised to accomodate better hardware without the need to re-score existing hardware. What is the betting that by the time we get to 10 Vista's replacement is on the horizon?:)

[Nam078]

Overall Rating 4.2

Processor: Amd 64 6000 X2 @3.0gb - 5.6 (Not Overclocked)
Memory: 2gb Generic 800 DDR 2 - 5.9
Graphics: 6800gs 256meg DDR3 pci-e - 5.9 (soon sli)
Gaming Graphics: - 5.3
Hard Disk: Normal Seagate Ide 160gb - 4.2

Damn the hard disk has let me down. The odd thing is that my Processor is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 6200+ @3000 MHz under Pc Wizard with a TDP of 65Watt, which is different from all the write ups about the Amd 6000 processors, for example 125 watt for the TDP.

Anyway it runs prefect, I love my AMD.

[recruit]

Overall score - 5.0


Component Details Subscore Base score
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 5.0 5.0
Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB 5.0
Graphics Radeon X1900 Series 5.9
Gaming graphics 1278 MB Total available graphics memory 5.8
Primary hard disk 182GB Free (233GB Total) 5.4
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium

Very please with Vista so far and it certainly runs nice and quick for me !
System
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Manufacturer System manufacturer
Model System Product Name
Total amount of system memory 2.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2

[MDX]

The scoring system seems flawed e.g

My ram score went from 4.8 with 2gb to 4.7 with 4gb, i know it does not use the whole 4gb but how can the score go down!!

I can tell the difference but the scoring system seems to think it makes it worse :rolleyes:

[Seanshadyuk]

i think the AMOUNT of ram only limits the score you can get, to up the score you want to make sure the ram is in dual channel mode, that its the fastest ram possible (probably 800mhz) and also manually setting the timings in the bios often increases the score (i.e 4-4-4-12 2t for 800mhz ddr2)

[Spangle2k5]

On the works laptop (am a web developer):

Processor: 5.2 - Core 2 T7600 - 2 x 2.33GHz
RAM: 4.7 - 4GB DDR 667
Graphics: 5.9 - Quattro 2500M (512MB dedicated RAM :o)
Gaming: 5.8
Hard Disk: 5.0

On the PC it is something like 5.9, 5.9, 4.2, 4.2, 5.8 for an Athlon 5600 with 2GB of DDR800 and a Radeon X1550

[MDX]

i think the AMOUNT of ram only limits the score you can get, to up the score you want to make sure the ram is in dual channel mode, that its the fastest ram possible (probably 800mhz) and also manually setting the timings in the bios often increases the score (i.e 4-4-4-12 2t for 800mhz ddr2)

Nah the system is flawed, i can re-test and get better score, then re-test again and guess what ?

I can get worse or better score, the highest i have had for the ram was 5.4 and the lowest was 3.8

All tests done with nothing else running, its a silly system.

[tvdavid]

Mine is 5.2 here.

I am happy with that for now.

But will upgrade in a few months time.

[kkelly4895]

I built mine apx 2 months ago now.

Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 - 5.6 (note its 1.8Ghz thats been O/C @ 2.8Ghz)
Memory (RAM) - 2GB - 5.9
Graphics - GF Nvidia 8800GTS 640MB - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.9
Primary Hard Disk - 320GB WD SATAII - 5.5

[High_Pressure]

Got my Dell XPS210 last December running Home Premium.

Although my score is only 4.2 because of the graphics card, I'm not a gamer so the RAM and disk give me what I need. :thumbsup:

Processor Intel(R) Core 2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz 5.1
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB 5.4
Graphics Radeon X1300 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) 4.7
Gaming graphics 1019 MB Total available graphics memory 4.2
Primary hard disk (219GB Total) 5.4

H_P

[Singh400]

Got my Dell XPS210 last December running Home Premium.

Although my score is only 4.2 because of the graphics card, I'm not a gamer so the RAM and disk give me what I need. :thumbsup:

Processor Intel(R) Core 2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz 5.1
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB 5.4
Graphics Radeon X1300 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) 4.7
Gaming graphics 1019 MB Total available graphics memory 4.2
Primary hard disk (219GB Total) 5.4

H_P
Ok, now you see I'm starting to doubt the reliabilty of these scores. My score is 4.2 and my rig is atleast 2years old and nowhere as near as powerful as yours.

[Synchro]

Ok, now you see I'm starting to doubt the reliabilty of these scores. My score is 4.2 and my rig is atleast 2years old and nowhere as near as powerful as yours.


I agree.

[digitalspirit]

Processor Intel(R) Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz - 5.9
Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB Corsair 800MHz DDR2 - 5.4
Graphics ATi Radeon HD 2900XT 512Mb - 5.9
Gaming graphics - 5.9
Primary hard disk S-ATA II (160GB Total) - 5.4
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit

[KillerOfThreads]

Athlon 64 x2 5600
1950 xt 256mb graphics
Gigabyte S7 SATAII MB
2 gig DDR 800
Seagate SATAII 320 HDD

Vista Premium score 5.3

Is it true it's highest is 5.9?

[Embarker]

AMD x2 6000 5.4
GeiL pc6400 2x 1gb Ultra 5.9
Seagate sata I 300gb 5.4
8600 GTS graphics card 5.9 / gaming 5.6
Abit AN M2HD Mobo

Vista Ultimate Overall score 5.4

[STANNY08]

My new laptop, one of the cheap ones from tescos.

Processor: 4.8
Memory (RAM): 3.4
Graphics: 2.5
Gaming Graphics: 3.0
Primary Hard Disk: 4.5

I dont think thats too bad for a £480 laptop.

[essex iceman]

System:
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. (965P-DS4), 32-bit operating system (64-bit capable).

Processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 3.15GHz (clocked) - score 5.7

Memory (RAM):
3.50 GB - score 5.8

Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX - score 5.9
Dedicated graphics memory 768 MB, DirectX version DirectX 9.0 or better.

Gaming Graphics:
2303 MB Total available graphics memory - score 5.9

Primary Hard Disk:
Total size of hard disk(s) 522 GB - score 5.9

Disk partition (C:) 18 GB Free (34 GB Total) - WD Raptor
Disk partition (E:) 187 GB Free (190 GB Total) Maxtor
Disk partition (F:) 245 GB Free (298 GB Total) - WD Ibook

Vista Ultimate Overall score so far - 5.7

(This is my first try, will overclock cpu again maybe up to 3.30GHz - 3.50GHz)

[Garry123]

I get overall 5.8 with an E6400 o/c to 3.2Ghz, 4Gb Geil Ultra DDR PC6400 and Ati 1900 o/c. Running Bioshock nicely.

[PaleRider1975]

I bought myself a new laptop two day ago it's a HP 9576EA and here's my vista score.

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz - 4.9
Memory (RAM): 2GB - 4.8
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 256MB - 4.6
Gaming Graphics: 5.0
Primary Hard Disk: 4.9

Overall Score - 4.6

[cantona.no7]

My current system scores a 5.6

CPU 5.9
RAM 5.6
Graphics 5.9
Gaming Graphics 5.9
Hard Disk 5.7

system consists

Intel Quadcore 6600
4 GB OCZ extreme 800
Asus 8800GTS graphics card
500 GB Seagate HD

[tonyadamson]

Every time I try to rate my system my PC crashes. EVERY TIME!

Anyone else have this problem?

My system consists of:

Vista Ultimate 64
AMD Athlon 64 Dual core 4200+
2GB PC5300 RAM
NVidia XFX Geforce 6200 A-LE
Asrock AM2 AGP motherboard
40GB Hard drive (System software)
80GB Hard drive (Media)

[psikey]

Processor - C2D E6750 2.67GHz - 5.0
Memory (RAM) - 2GB OCZ RAM - 5.9
Graphics - Nvidia 8800GT - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.9
Primary Hard Drive - 500GB - 5.7

Overall 5.0

[Colonel Burton]

Here's mine still finding my way around vista lol

[mikeaitch]

All 5.9's on mine with the same processor- although the memory was 5.7 until I updated my board to the latest driver. Don't know how you upload the pic of the score though- it just says error when I do a screendump when I try to upload....

[Gliese 581c]

Processor - C2D E6750 2.67GHz - 5.0
Memory (RAM) - 2GB OCZ RAM - 5.9
Graphics - Nvidia 8800GT - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.9
Primary Hard Drive - 500GB - 5.7

Overall 5.0

Your cpu score is way low, you should get 5.7 with that cpu.

[BenchyUK]

I have just dual booted Windows Vista on my Apple imac (New Model) and this is my score

Processor - 5.3
Memory (RAM) - 4.8 (2GB)
Graphics - Nvidia 8800GT - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.2
Primary Hard Drive - 5.8 (170GB after partition)

Is this a Good score?

[Twuntenstein]

Memory (RAM) - 2GB OCZ RAM - 5.9


What RAM type do you have please? I've got 2 GB OCZ in my machine but only get a 4.9 score... Is there anything I need to do for it to be recognised differently or am I missing something?

Cheers

[anobium]

What RAM type do you have please? I've got 2 GB OCZ in my machine but only get a 4.9 score... Is there anything I need to do for it to be recognised differently or am I missing something?

Cheers
Hes probably running under dual channel mode, if you have compatable motherboard place your memory in the same coloured slots i.e both the red ones if all your motherboard ram slots are same colour it will not run in dual channel mode.

Here is mine. The c2d is actually running at 2800. Brand new hardrive sata2 and still only get 5.7 what do you need to get 5.9.

[GarryF]

What RAM type do you have please? I've got 2 GB OCZ in my machine but only get a 4.9 score... Is there anything I need to do for it to be recognised differently or am I missing something?

Cheers

you need to put the ram timings into the bios, that can help things

[GarryF]

Hes probably running under dual channel mode, if you have compatable motherboard place your memory in the same coloured slots i.e both the red ones if all your motherboard ram slots are same colour it will not run in dual channel mode.

Here is mine. The c2d is actually running at 2800. Brand new hardrive sata2 and still only get 5.7 what do you need to get 5.9.

Raptor would probably do it, or raid 0, i have two raptors in raid 0 giving me 5.9

[chuwright]

5.9 across the board. Agree Raptors would probably give you the higher score. It works for me...

[darussian12]

been figuring out how to fix this. I used to use copied versions of Vista well because i could and i DVD copies of Vista come with all versions on it an you could use anything from basic to ultimate for 30 days...well i made a vista ultimate "vista lite" version because I stripped out all the BS i never used. well the problem is i got a 3.1 as the lowest subscrore with ultimate which were my graphics scores...when i did the system restore CD from HP that has home premium i got with my PC i now have a 2.5 graphics subscore. how the hell does that happen. i have done all the win dows updates...what else can i do. im way too confused. please help. if you need PC info. its an hp dv9608nr. i have gone to the hp site to dl their drivers after running the perf test and after getting the latest hp drivers i still get an 2.5 score when i know i got a 3.1 lowest subscore on graphics when i ran the vista lite version of vista ultimate. what am i missing?

[wormvortex]

I'd have a 5.9 as everything of mine is rated 5.9 besides my HDD which is 5.4 so it brings my score down to 5.4 :(

http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/4166/capturefd6.jpg

[redblackred]

5.0 :thumbsup:
AMD X2 4200+ - 5.0
Arianet 1GB X2 - 5.9
8600GT XXX - 5.9
160GB Samsung 8MB Sata - 5.6


Just bought it today wheyy

[Madferrit]

just got my new dell xps 420

overall score 5.5. everything 5.9 except ram, wish I had paid extra bit for the 800mhz ram version :rolleyes:


(by the way 8800 GTX card is brill, plays crysis and other new games gr8t)

[davidchurch]

Mine is 3.3 or 3.4. Which I know to be low. It changes each time I do it. The slow part is be my Graphics card (see spec below). Eveything else is 4.5 and above.

I only use the box for general purpose surfing net and mostly Vista Media Centre, where we watch and record TV and also watch DVDs. No games or other clever stuff.

Anyone care to comment on whether a graphics card upgrade is worth while for these uses?

I did try to get a new card before I moved to Vista but could not find any better low profile cards for PCIE slot. Plenty of full height cards obviously. Again any suggestions.

Thanks
Dave

[minkybunny]

Just got this pc for £500
the overal score is out of 5, so it says on my pc.


More details about my computer

ComponentDetailsSubscoreBase scoreProcessorIntel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5450 @ 1.66GHz4.74.0 Determined by lowest subscoreMemory (RAM)2.00 GB4.6GraphicsNVIDIA NB8M-GS 4.0Gaming graphics895 MB Total available graphics memory4.7Primary hard disk38GB Free (88GB Total)5.0Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium
System ManufacturerSAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. ModelSR70S/SR71S Total amount of system memory2.00 GB RAM System type32-bit operating system Number of processor cores2 64-bit capableYesStorage Total size of hard disk(s)176 GB Disk partition (C:)38 GB Free (88 GB Total) Disk partition (D:)51 GB Free (88 GB Total) Media drive (E:)CD/DVDGraphics Display adapter typeNVIDIA NB8M-GS Total available graphics memory895 MB Dedicated graphics memory128 MB Dedicated system memory0 MB Shared system memory767 MB Display adapter driver version7.15.11.134 Primary monitor resolution1280x800 DirectX versionDirectX 9.0 or betterNetwork Network AdapterMicrosoft Tun Miniport Adapter Network AdapterMarvell Yukon 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller Network AdapterIntel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN

[james.miller]

5.7 for my htpc. everything is 5.9 except the cpu:)

[darrenwindle]

Overall I got a 3.0. The only thing letting me down is my Graphics Card which is an NVidia 7300LE with 256mb DDRII Ram

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/darrenwindle/Rating.jpg

[iwgunter]

Processor: 4.9 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
Memory: 5.7 - 2GB Kingston
Graphics: 3.6 - Asus GeForce EN8400GS
Gaming: 4.6
Hard Drive: 5.0 - 40GB Western Digital

Overall 3.6

I'm really dissapointed by the graphics card :( I thought I'd get a much better score than that on it. I've just installed the latest drivers from nVida too! only able to get 1280x1024!!! I can get a much better resolution using the same setup on XP!

[CookieM]

http://files.uploadffs.com/012c5c05eab020cadbcf696ccf8843f4_score.jpg

CPU: Intel Q6600
RAM: 2GB Corsair XMS2
HDD: 320GB Western Digital SATA2
GFX: Gigabyte 8800GT
PSU: 520w Coolermaster Real Power
CPY Cooling: Zalman CNPS9700

dunno whats up with my ram score :s but oh well...

[bigdave]

Hi CookieM
I had the same problem with a q6600. the solution was to de-link the cpu from the ram speed, i reduced the multiplyer to 2.5 from 3X i was then able to take the ram to 336mhz giving me 3.26GhzX4 the ram speed is 336X2.5=840Mhz.
raised my ram score from 5 to well over 5.9
now just limited by hd which i can't be bothered changing.

[Waynej]

CPU: Q6600 2.4ghz - 5.9
RAM: 2 x 2GB (4GB) Twin Corsair - 5.2
GFX: MSI 512mb 8800gts - 5.9
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB - 5.9

Overall then is 5.2

[xhaytham]

How Can I Do It ?? Where Is It Exactlly?

[cannaboid]

Xhaythem, Go to Control panel, and select Performance Information. Voila, theres the info your after mate.


Heres my results:-

Processor: 5.9
RAM: 5.6
Graphics: 5
Gaming Graphics: 5.3
Primary Hard Disk: 5.5

Overall Score: 5

And thats running the following setup:-
CPU: Intel Quadcore Q660
RAM: 2GB DDR2-667 (soon to be upgraded to 4GB)
Graphics Card: Geforce 8500GT (hpefully soon to be upgraded to 8800GTS)
Hard Disk: 400GB

[xhaytham]

WEEEEEEEEEEIRD

I just got a new laptop which is >>> ASUS V2S

THE graphics card is:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS, with External 256 VRAM/64bit

i got in the graphics 3.4

and the whole score was 3.4

the picture is attached here

[EmArA]

4.5 :thumbsup:
Laptop: Sony Vaio Fe 15.4"
>> 2.0Ghz, 160 HDD, Nvidia Geforce 7600 GPU, 2GB DDR2
Age: one year old & maybe going Blu soon :grin: with the Fz series (full Hd)

[Albopalbo]

CPU - 5.8
RAM - 5.9
Graphics - 4.7
Game graphics - 4.9
HD - 5.5

Graphics card is the weak link, only a 7600GS. Does me though.

[stokenash]

CPU - Athlon 4600x2 - 5.1
RAM - 3Gb - 5.0
HDD - 300Gb 5.7
Graphics - 8800GT 512mb OCd- 5.9

Overalll 5.0

Getting new memory and processor soon.
Thinking of getting AM2 6400 and G.Skill 4Gb DDRII (1000MHz RAM Speed)

Anybody with a simular build, what do you think my RAM and CPU score will be then?

[stokenash]

Albopalbo, what CPU and RAM do you have?
Im trying to boost my vista score, and its the CPU and RAM thats letting me down at the moment.

[wormvortex]

Albopalbo, what CPU and RAM do you have?
Im trying to boost my vista score, and its the CPU and RAM thats letting me down at the moment.

Don't just upgrade your PC so as to boost your vista score. It's nearly as stupid as people who constantly overclock and upgrade their pc's to get +5fps in 3Dmark

[Naqv]

Albopalbo, what CPU and RAM do you have?
Im trying to boost my vista score, and its the CPU and RAM thats letting me down at the moment.

That is one of the most ridiculous comments I have ever seen. I know some people upgrade a graphics card JUST to get a higher score in benchmarks, even though their current card will play EVERYTHING fine, but upgrading your computer to get a higher score in Vista is downright silly.
Thank you for making me laugh:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[amr660]

Hi

My Score Is.................5.5

[Jakks]

Processor - 5.9
Memory - 5.2
Graphics - 5.0
Gaming Graphics - 5.3
Primary Hard Disk - 5.8

Overall 5.0

[crazy8s]

5.5

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/848/vistascoregx5.jpg

[robfosters]

Almost maxxed. Bloody Ram letting me down. It's 2 GB's of Corsair XMS as well. I#ll have to OC to get a clean sweep. Although to be honest. I think these scores mean absolute diddly squat. It's just a great way for Microsoft to say "Wow, look how powerful your PC is, you'd better get on our store and buy some stuff to take advantage of that right away!"
http://http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd173/robfosters/performance.jpg

[Ojustabo]

CPU - 5.7
RAM - 5.9
Graphics - 5.9
Gameing graphics - 5.9
HD - 5.7

Already overclocked my CPU, could still take it higher as have good temps (E6600 overclocked to 3.0, running at 28degrees idle)

Optiarc NEC AD7170S Serial ATA DVD
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) PC6400C5 800MHz Black Dragon DDR2
Samsung Spinpoint HD501LJ 500GB SATA
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX KO ACS3 Silent 768MB
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Conroe 2.40Ghz
Gigabyte GA_P35_DS4 Motherboard
Thermaltake VA9003SWA Kandalf Aluminium Full Tower
Tagan TG700-U25 700W ATX2.0 Dual Engine silent sli
Auzentech X-Meridian 7.1 Soundcard
Merc Stealth Keyboard
Saitek X52 Pro joystick & throttle
Saitek rudder pedals
Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP 24” Monitor (shared between PC & PS3)
Yamaha DSP-A5 (shared between PC & PS3)
Mission M2S & M2C speakers (shared between PC & PS3)

[robfosters]

Your HD rating is interesting. I have a seagte barracude, pretty much the same tech, but mine reads 5.9. It is however, a very new drive, so it may be fresh (if you know what I mean).

[Russ7785]

AMD Phenom(tm) 9500 Quad-Core Processor 5.9
Ram 2GB 5.9
Nvidia 8600GT 5.6
Gaming Graphics 5.3

Overall Base Score (A Disappointing) 5.3


:(

[Stanley_Cooper]

Just checked my score again since upgrading.

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 5.9
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB 5.9
Graphics Radeon X1950 Pro 5.9
Gaming graphics 1023 MB Total available graphics memory 5.8
Primary hard disk 600GB Free (932GB Total) 5.9

Overall score 5.8. Wish I had more memory for gfx card otherwise it would be 5.9.

Better than my 4.2 last time score though.:grin:

Stan..

[southeastblue]

On my Acer Aspire 1690 laptop I get the following scores...

Processor - 1.7Ghz P4-M Centrino - 3.6
RAM - 1GB DDR2 - 4.4
Graphics - 64MB ATI X700 - 2.6
Gaming Graphics - 64MB ATI X700 - 4.3
Hard Disk - 50GB - 4.2

Not bad for a 2 year old laptop, although the Aero performance seems to suffer from the restricted graphics card.

[Malabbey]

I have a base score of just 2.1 but everything is working fine on Vista Ultimate.
From yesterday I now have a base score of 5.0 after upgrading motherboard, RAM, CPU, garphics card and power supply. Virtually a new PC really as all that's left from the old one is the case, hard drives and DVD writer.

[theoxens]

Hey guys/gals,
i cant show you right now as im at work :) but yestarday i finally got 5.9 accross the board, when i get home i will post a pic:hiya: but perfs are

q6600 @3.0ghz
nvidia 8800gt not o/c'ed
2gb crucial pc 6400 @1003mhz
WD rapture 10,000rpm 150gig
MOBO abit ip35 pro

i have done this edit as you may think i am cheating...im not i have not altered anything my bios is as standard the cpu reaches 5.9 without o/c so does the RAM so does the gpu and the hdd buy them and see for yourselfs..

note...this isnt even that great a system there are still 23,000 pc's out off 4.something million with better scores on 3dmark 03 than this one

[Chrisoldinho]

My Dell Inspiron 1720 Laptop scores are as follows:

Processor - T7500 2.2 Ghz Dual Core - 5.1
Memory (RAM) - 2GB DDR2 - 4.8
Graphics - Nvidia GeForce 8600MGT 256MB DDR2 - 5.2
Gaming Graphics - 5.3
Primary Hard Drive - 160GB SATAII - 5.1

Only modifications since new are Intel Turbo Memory 1GB (Santa Rosa Platform) and I have done a BIOS overclock of the Graphics Card using NVFLASH and NiBiTor from Core of 475Mhz/Memory 650Mhz to 600Mhz Core/675Mhz Memory. Was using x64 Vista Ultimate, now using x86 Vista Home Premium with Ultimate Extras due to compatibility/performance.

OR YOU COULD CHEAT IT

Okay so you've installed Vista on your computer and It runs fine and all that, but one part of your hardware is letting down your performance index, well this will show you how you can change it from anything between 0.1 > 9.9.

First open explorer and navigate to "C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore"
Open the most recent file in there which may be something like "2007-09-10 07.30.29.593 Assessment (Initial).WinSAT.xml"


http://i21.tinypic.com/5mgw6.jpg

Now change the numbers in there to whatever you want (between 0.1 & 9.9) you may have to take ownership of the file before you can save it.

Chris.

[treacle]

Thing is no-one will believe it, because everyone knows the max is 5.9,

[Singh400]

@Chris, that trick has been known for ages, and it's pretty worthless. Because as treacle pointed the max is 5.9 - untill Microsoft updated the scores.

[Ojustabo]

CPU - 5.7
RAM - 5.9
Graphics - 5.9
Gameing graphics - 5.9
HD - 5.7

Already overclocked my CPU, could still take it higher as have good temps (E6600 overclocked to 3.0, running at 28degrees idle)

Optiarc NEC AD7170S Serial ATA DVD
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) PC6400C5 800MHz Black Dragon DDR2
Samsung Spinpoint HD501LJ 500GB SATA
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX KO ACS3 Silent 768MB
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Conroe 2.40Ghz
Gigabyte GA_P35_DS4 Motherboard
Thermaltake VA9003SWA Kandalf Aluminium Full Tower
Tagan TG700-U25 700W ATX2.0 Dual Engine silent sli
Auzentech X-Meridian 7.1 Soundcard
Merc Stealth Keyboard
Saitek X52 Pro joystick & throttle
Saitek rudder pedals
Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP 24” Monitor (shared between PC & PS3)
Yamaha DSP-A5 (shared between PC & PS3)
Mission M2S & M2C speakers (shared between PC & PS3)


Since upgrading to SP1, my CPU has dropped to 5.6 ?

[Paranoid]

CPU - 5.9
RAM - 5.9
Graphics - 5.9
Gameing graphics - 5.9
HD - 5.9

Vista x64 Ultimate
Q6600 @ 3.31ghz
Abit IP35 Pro
4GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC2-8500C5 DDR2 Dual Channel @ 800
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC2 768MB GDDR3
Killer NIC
3 x Western Digital Raptor 36GB 10000RPM SATA 16MB Cache ~ Raid 0
1 x Hitachi SATA2 1TB

[Chrisoldinho]

@Chris, that trick has been known for ages, and it's pretty worthless. Because as treacle pointed the max is 5.9 - untill Microsoft updated the scores.

I know it's been around for ages mate but funny all the same :)

[Naqv]

CPU - 5.9
RAM - 5.9
Graphics - 5.9
Gameing graphics - 5.9
HD - 5.9

Vista x64 Ultimate SP1
Q6600 @ 2.4GHz
Gigabyte P35C-DS3R
4GB Corsair Gold Vista Upgrade, 5-5-5-18, 1.8 volts, 2T, 800mhz
8800GTS 512mb
1x Seagate 500GB 32mb cache SATAII HDDD

[Jessejames690]

5.9 in total

Vista Ultimate 64
Asus Striker Extreme
BFG 8800 Ultra
4gig Geil Blackdragon Ram
2 x 36gig Raptors
2 x 500 gig Seagate Barracudas
Intel Xeon 3210 Quad Core
X-FI GamerrExtreme Sound Card.
All Sitting in a nice Lian Li V2000+ Case
All Water Cooled.

[SibTiger33]

CPU - Athlon 4600x2 - 5.1
RAM - 3Gb - 5.0
HDD - 300Gb 5.7
Graphics - 8800GT 512mb OCd- 5.9

Overalll 5.0

Getting new memory and processor soon.
Thinking of getting AM2 6400 and G.Skill 4Gb DDRII (1000MHz RAM Speed)

Anybody with a simular build, what do you think my RAM and CPU score will be then?

im using am2 6400 - great processor for my needs - i get 5.6 on the processor end and 5.9 for everything else

RAID 0 X 2 500GB WD drives
4GB CORSAIR memory
HD 3850 512MB CARD

[mossmanfly]

Processor - QX9650 @ 3Ghz - 5.9
Memory - 2302MB DDR2 800 - 5.9 (8GB installed dual booting to 64 soon)
Graphics - Nvidia 8800 Ultra 3-way SLi - 5.9
Primary Hard Drive - 750GB WD - 5.9

So overall 5.9

[Sandman]

Processor -C2D E6750 - 5.5
Memory - 2GB 667 - 5.3
Graphics - Onboard - 3.1
Gaming Graphics - Onboard - 3.2
Primary Hard Disc - 250GB ATA - 5.2

Base Score -3.1 which I think is quite good as I am using onboard graphics and an old hard drive. Vista Premium with Aero works smoothly and it never crashes. Most reliable pc I have ever owned.

[Greg]

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 5.9
Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB 5.5
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 5.9
Gaming graphics 2303 MB Total available graphics memory 5.9
Primary hard disk 25GB Free (69GB Total) 5.9

Any ideas why my memory might be just 5.5?

It's Corsair 4GB TwinX 6400.

[cloudcity]

I thought mine was good for an entry level lap top.


Am I way off?

[Sandman]

I thought mine was good for an entry level lap top.


Am I way off?

Hit that refresh button, you never know your score may just go up. And it looks a pretty good score to me for a laptop.

[Ojustabo]

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 5.9
Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB 5.5
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 5.9
Gaming graphics 2303 MB Total available graphics memory 5.9
Primary hard disk 25GB Free (69GB Total) 5.9

Any ideas why my memory might be just 5.5?

It's Corsair 4GB TwinX 6400.

It could be that your memory settings are wrong in your BIOS.

Have a look at Corsairs web page and see what the timings should be,
eg CAS 4-4-4-12, then see what something along the lines of

DRAM Timing Selectable (SPD) [Manual]
CAS Latancey Time 6 [4]
DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay 6 [4]
DRAM RAS# Precharge 6 [4]
Precharge Delay (tRAS) 18 [12]

say in your BIOS. This is taken from my BIOS which will probably look different to yours unless you have a Gigabyte motherboard.

In my PC's example above, the speed defaulted to 6-6-6-18 and I had to manually change it to the correct 4-4-4-12

[Firenze]

Thing is no-one will believe it, because everyone knows the max is 5.9,
When are they going to update it? Does anyone know?

[Greg]

It could be that your memory settings are wrong in your BIOS.

Have a look at Corsairs web page and see what the timings should be,
eg CAS 4-4-4-12, then see what something along the lines of

DRAM Timing Selectable (SPD) [Manual]
CAS Latancey Time 6 [4]
DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay 6 [4]
DRAM RAS# Precharge 6 [4]
Precharge Delay (tRAS) 18 [12]

say in your BIOS. This is taken from my BIOS which will probably look different to yours unless you have a Gigabyte motherboard.

In my PC's example above, the speed defaulted to 6-6-6-18 and I had to manually change it to the correct 4-4-4-12

Thanks, I'll check that out tonight. :smashin:

EDIT: not really sure what I am looking for as someone else built the PC, so I'm not that technical, but found this page here:
http://www.corsair.com/_datasheets/TWIN2X4096-6400C5.pdf

So looking at that does it mean the bios timings should be 5-5-5-18?

[DSPUK]

overall 5.5

Processor 5.9
memory 5.5
graphics 5.9
gaming 5.7
HD 5.9

It's a new PC about month old

Q6600
8600GTX
2x250 gig
2 gig memory
Asus A7K

happy enough at moment but will see what next month brings:grin:

[DSPUK]

Ooppps

Asus P5K

[Ojustabo]

Thanks, I'll check that out tonight. :smashin:

EDIT: not really sure what I am looking for as someone else built the PC, so I'm not that technical, but found this page here:
http://www.corsair.com/_datasheets/TWIN2X4096-6400C5.pdf

So looking at that does it mean the bios timings should be 5-5-5-18?

Yes I think so, but I'm no expert in this, I got help from overclockers.co.uk forum (which is where I brought my PC bits from).

[chaz]

mine is
Processor 5.9
Memory ram 5.9
Graphics 5.0
gaming graphics 5.2
primary hard disc 5.9
:):thumbsup:

[Stoofa]

Checked mine last night - not that it really means that much.

Overall 5.9

Processor 5.9
Memory 5.9
Graphics 5.9
Gaming 5.9
HD 5.9

Intel Q6700
4GB DDR3-1600
8800GTX
1TB Samsung F1
Asus P5E3-Deluxe WiFi

No real intention of making any upgrades until the back end of the year.

[southeastblue]

Just bought a cheapo Acer 5315 laptop specs and scores as follows:

Processor - Celeron 540 1.86Ghz - 4.1
Ram - 1 x 1GB DDR2 - 4.5
Graphics Aero - Intel GMA X3100 - 2.5
Graphics Gaming - Intel GMA X3100 - 3.1
Primary HD - 80GB 5,200rpm - 4.9

Could be better but for £260 I can't really complain. Beat the score set by my Acer 1690 on everything apart from graphics.

:smashin:

[akan7]

my 3.3:grin:

[nandost]

http://86.94.83.215/nando/forum/my%20computer.jpgthis is my score with windows vista home premium (service pack 1)

processor: 5,9

memory (RAM): 5,5

graphic: 4,5

graphic view: 5,1

primair hard disk: 5,7

4 GB ram memory, Core 2 Quad Q6600 2,40 Ghz, 8500 GT graphic card (crossfire), 500 GB hard disk

[AgentCool]

Don't think mine's bad for a cheap laptop with a memory upgrade:

Processor - AMD Turion 64 MK-36 2.00GHz - 4.1
Memory (RAM) - 2GB DDR2 667Mhz - 5.3
Graphics - ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 - 3.1
Gaming Graphics - ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 - 3.1
Hard Disk - Toshiba 60GB 5400RPM - 4.3

It's certainly a lot faster than it used to be when it only had 1GB of RAM.

[Lucky067]

after upgrade new card and hard drive:

CPU - 5.6 (Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2Ghz)
RAM - 5.9 (4x1GB Corsair Dominator DDR2-800mhz with Airflow)
Graphic - 5.9 (2 x XFX Nvidia GF9600GT XXX and enabled SLi mode)
Gaming - 5.9
Hard Drive - 5.9 (2 x Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB = 2TB)

[andy_dandy]

Desktop (My own Build):

CPU (QX9700 @4.0Ghz) -> 5.9
RAM (SuperTalent DDR3 2000Mhz) 4Gb ->5.9
Graphic (EVGA 9800GX2 SSC) ->5.9
Gaming (as above) ->5.9
Hard Drive (2xRAID0 Raptors) ->5.9


Laptop (Dell XPSM1730)

CPU -> (Core 2 Extreme X7900 @3.0) 5.7
Memory (the killer for laptops) ->5.0
Graphics (SLI 8800GTXM) -> 5.9
Gaming Graphics -> 5.9
Hard Drive (RAID 0 2x250Gb) -> 5.9

Quite chuffed with both to be honest.

[jrrs1]

@ STOOFA,

Can you let me know how the built in WIFI performs on the MB?

Cheers John

[southeastblue]

Ive been playing around with Vista for a while now and come across an interesting feature.

If you click your "rating" in Computer - Properties you get a list of scores for individual processes of your PC.

Processor - P4 3.4GHz - 4.0
Memory (RAM) - 1791MB - 3.9
Graphics - Nvidia 5200 GeForce - 2.0
Gaming Graphics - 2.6
Primary Hard Drive - 400GB - 5.0

Giving me an overall score of 2.0 (takes the lowest apparently)

I have no idea what the top score is, but post yours up here and we can get a good idea of what a good spec for Vista is.

:thumbsup:

Top score apparently is 5.9, although in the future I think higher scores are achievable when technology advances. Your scores aren't too bad but looks like your graphics card could do with replacing! :smashin:

[Badbonji]

I got base score of 5.9:clap:

My cpu is water cooled too, I will be overclocking it soon...

Q9450 @ 2.66Ghz - Water cooled - 35 idle, 45 load
2 x EVGA 8800gts 512mb SSC (820 core, 2033 shader, 2300 memory clock speeds) - 40 idle, 44 load
8Gb G.skill pc2-8500 1066mhz
EVGA 780i A1
WD Raptor 150gb 10,000rpm
WD Sata II 500Gb 7,200rpm

Image : http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb233/badbonji/PCvistaPIscore.jpg

[AgentCool]

Just got a Dell XPS M1530 the other day for £569. The Vista scores were higher than I was expecting:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.10GHz T8100 - 5.1
Memory: 2GB DDR2 667Mhz RAM - 5.0
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600GT M - 5.9
Gaming Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600GT M - 5.4
Hard Disk: Samsung 250GB 5400RPM - 5.2

[No Quarter]

I'm on a 5.6, let down by my E8200. My old 7800GT gets a 5.7 for gaming and a 5.9 for aero, despite it obviously being the weakest link in my system.

[mattclarkie]

I am only a 5.3 on my desktop, let down by my AMD x2 5600+. It would be 5.9 if not for that.
My Lappie is only a 4.3 due to the graphics, otherwise it would be a 4.8.

[Ibcus]

Dell Vostro 1700 laptop:

Processor (C2Duo T5670 1.80 GHz) 4.8
Memory (2gig DDR2 667MHz) 4.8
Garphics (256Mb GF 8600M GT) 4.7
Gaming Graphics 5.3
Primary Hard Drive (160GB SATA) 4.9


I was suprised to see the gaming graphics with a higher score than desktop graphics.

[kempez]

Custom made PC:

Everything 5.9 :)

Processor: Xeon 3210 clocked to 3.3GHz
Memory: 4GHz DDR800 @ 1000MHz
Graphics (both a 5.9): Overclocked 8800 GTX
HDD: RAID 0 Array (Hitachi Deskstar 7K160's)

Silly that Vista's highest score is limited to 5.9 until future notice :(

[vnbabyprince]

I am currently running a home build computer. I was wondering if anybody know how I would get my score higher than what it is. My score is 5.0.

Processor: 5.9 (Intel Quad Core 6600 @ 2.4)
Memory: 5.0 (8 Gigs at 900 MHZ)
Graphics: 5.9 (PNY 512MB 8600GT OC)
Gaming Graphics: 5.6
Primary Hard Disk: 5.8 (2 IDE 250GB HDs)

[Gliese 581c]

I am currently running a home build computer. I was wondering if anybody know how I would get my score higher than what it is. My score is 5.0.

Processor: 5.9 (Intel Quad Core 6600 @ 2.4)
Memory: 5.0 (8 Gigs at 900 MHZ)
Graphics: 5.9 (PNY 512MB 8600GT OC)
Gaming Graphics: 5.6
Primary Hard Disk: 5.8 (2 IDE 250GB HDs)


There's something wrong with your memory settings/speed. I'd have a quick peek in the BIOS and check everything.

[namuk]

All 5.9 :thumbsup:

[J0hnEast0n]

My over all score was 5.0 on my Macbook Pro. Everything was 5.5+ except my hard drive. Its only 5400rpm, I will bump it up to 7200rpm soon which should increase my score!

John

[Talisman]

My score is 5.0 its all 5.9 except the 4gig of RAM that is 5.0 so bringing the score down to 5.0.

[southeastblue]

My newly built budget computer scores as follows:

AMD X2 4600+ processor = 5.2
2GB DDR2 800Mhz Kingston Ram = 5.9
Integrated ATI radeon 1200 - Vista Aero = 3.8
Integrated ATI radeon 1200 - Gaming = 3.2
Samsung 160GB Sata2 8mb cache Hard drive = 5.2

Overall = 3.2 because of my graphics! Hopefully I'll get hold of a cheap but decent GFX card soon to bump my score up a bit then the weakest link will be HDD & processor although 5.2 isn't too bad.

:thumbsup:

[un1eash]

Mines 5.5 because of my AMD X2 6000+ @ 3.22ghz, the rest are 5.8/5.9.

[serial killer]

Core 2duo E8200 2.6 5.5
4 GB ocz 800 ram 5.9
8600 GT desktop 5.0
Gaming 5.3
Hard disk 500 GB sata2 5.9

over all of 5.0 because of the graphics card not really worried because I am not really a gamer hence I only used a 8600gt when I built the computer I do think its strange that I can score a 5.3 for 3d gaming which is one of the most demanding things you can do yet only 5.0 for aero lol how much power do you need to make a window transparent

[JusTC]

On my DELL M1530 laptop

C2D T7250 - 4.9
2GB RAM - 4.8
8600 M GT (Graphics) - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.4
250 GB HDD - 5.3

I'm happy with my score considering its a laptop and many of my friends scores are like 4.0 or under.

My Desktop PC is also 4.8 but its not on Vista atm so I can't say each indivdual component score.

[mattclarkie]

On my DELL M1530 laptop

C2D T7250 - 4.9
2GB RAM - 4.8
8600 M GT (Graphics) - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.4
250 GB HDD - 5.3

I'm happy with my score considering its a laptop and many of my friends scores are like 4.0 or under.

My Desktop PC is also 4.8 but its not on Vista atm so I can't say each indivdual component score.

My T7300 which is meant to be a superior processor to your T7250 gets the same 4.9.

Anyone know how these scores are calculated.




over all of 5.0 because of the graphics card not really worried because I am not really a gamer hence I only used a 8600gt when I built the computer I do think its strange that I can score a 5.3 for 3d gaming which is one of the most demanding things you can do yet only 5.0 for aero lol how much power do you need to make a window transparent

My 8600gt gets a 5.9 for gaming, it is OC'd so maybe that makes a difference.
My lappie gets a 4.8 for gaming, not too shabby, but like you only a 4.3 for Aero. Obviously the math required for Aero isn't optimised in many graphics cards.

[mattclarkie]

I am currently running a home build computer. I was wondering if anybody know how I would get my score higher than what it is. My score is 5.0.

Processor: 5.9 (Intel Quad Core 6600 @ 2.4)
Memory: 5.0 (8 Gigs at 900 MHZ)
Graphics: 5.9 (PNY 512MB 8600GT OC)
Gaming Graphics: 5.6
Primary Hard Disk: 5.8 (2 IDE 250GB HDs)

When I only had 2Gb of PC6400 at stock it was 5.9, I upgraded to 4Gb, but as 5.9 is the highest I don't know what difference that made.

Seems to be something wrong with the memory settings for a 5.0 as that is a laptop memory score.

[lead]

Installed Vista 64 last night (previously XP64). Here's my 5.9 :)

Spec:
Q9450 @ 410x8
4gb Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C4DHX DDR2
2x 256MB HD3850
150gb WD Raptor

[Bellerophon]

Damm processor, know I should have gone quad core. Overall 5.2 with due to processor otherwise 5.9 x3 and one 5.8.

[anwarsadat]

CPU (Q9550 watercooled @ 3.7ghz) 5.9
Memory (4Gb ocz reaper pc2-8500 overclocked) 5.9
Graphics (Dual GTX280 overclocked in Sli) 5.9
Gaming graphics 5.9
Primary hardisk (WD Raptor 300gb) 5.9

[krisgs]

Core 2duo E6700 5.7
4 GB Corsair 800 5.9
8800 GTS 5.9
Hard disk 2x 74GB sata2 raid0 WD Raptor 5.9

[DogZillaNL]

My living room HTPC

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f75/dogzillanl/sysspecs.jpg

[Caveman643]

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 5.9
Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB 5.5
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 5.9
Gaming graphics 1663 MB Total available graphics memory 5.6
Primary hard disk 355G