Windows Experience Index for Vista

[hondaf17]

Base Score = 5.1
Processor = 5.1
Memory = 5.9
Graphics = 5.9
Gaming Graphics = 5.8
Primary Hard Disk = 5.4

This is with:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ at stock speeds
2x1GB DDR2 800 RAM - A-Data Brand
Sapphire Radeon 256 MB GDDR3 1950 Pro
Western Digital Caviar SE 16 250 GB SATA II

Considering 5.9 is the highest, I am quite happy with my 5.1, considering this PC was just custom-built for $925 soup to nuts.

 

[Pwnbroker]

Mine is 4.8

Everything got a 5.9 with the exception of my processor.

 

[Pwnbroker]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
Processor: 5.4
Memory: 4.7
Graphics: 5.9
Gaming Graphics: 5.2
Hard Disk: 5.9

Base Score: 4.7
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Rig:

E6600 (Stock)
Asrock 775 Dual VSTA
2x1gig SuperTalent PC5300 DDR2-667
BFG 6800GT
Raptor 150gig
Enhance 5150gh 500W


Any ideas why the RAM score would be so low? It's running in dual channel mode.

Vista has a memory test included. Just hit F8 like you're going into safe mode, and it's an option on that screen.

 

[hondaf17]

Just put the 32-bit version of Ultimate on my other machine and scored a 4.5:

Processor - 4.9
RAM - 4.5
Graphics - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.9
Hard Disk - 5.6

System:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ at stock speeds
1 GB PC3200 DDR RAM
512 MB GDDR3 ATI RADEON X1800XT Video Card
160 GB SATA II Segate 7200.9 HDD

 

[n7]

5.6

That's with the rig in sig.

 

[Aberforth]

Originally posted by: n7
5.6

That's with the rig in sig.

do you think Re-Activation is required if you change processor and RAM speeds?

 

[Nocturnal]

I just got this old Dell and I put Vista on it and it has an index score of 1.0. LOL.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: Aberforth

Originally posted by: n7
5.6

That's with the rig in sig.

do you think Re-Activation is required if you change processor and RAM speeds?

Better not!

I was overclocking a buddy's system last week, & he wanted to run the WEI after the overclock to see how much his score had improved, & no re-activation was needed on his system.

I've tweaked my overclock alot too since installing Vista & it hasn't bothered me at all.

 

[drum]

5.3 for me

e6600 @2.4
3gb ram
8800gtx

 

[Tegeril]

New HTPC:

4.9
5.5
3.9
3.7
5.7

e6300 stock
2gb pc2-5300 ram
Integrated x3000 graphics
500gb 7200.10 Seagate

 

[RebateMonger]

I put a "new" Nvidia 6200 (128MB of RAM) into my Dell 400SC with 2.8GHz P4 and 1GB of PC3200:

4.2
2.9
4.2
3.0
4.9

Reducing the memory in the same PC to 512MB (down from 1GB) reduces the "Graphics" benchmark considerably, but doesn't affect any other score, including the "Gaming Graphics" benchmark:

4.2
2.9
2.3 <==== "Graphics"
3.0
4.9

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P4 2.8GHz HT stock
1GB or 512MB PC3200 (2x256 plus 1x512 for the 1GB test) (2x256 for the 512MB test)
Nvidia 6200 AGP
200GB Seagate IDE 7200.9

 

[Dostoyevsky77]

I wish I had this RAM: Crucial Ballistix DDR2 1000 (4-4-4-12)

5.8

RAM: 5.8
Everything else: 5.9

I have my Corsair Dominators at 5-5-5-15-2t, and at 1066. I would overclock further, but my nVidia display driver keeps giving me grief if I do. In fact, I need to run at 800MHz to get total stability.

I should have read this forum before shelling out for Dominators.

 

[Dostoyevsky77]

Nocturnal,

Make sure all the drivers are installed (especially for your weakest link). It might be that you're running XP or legacy video drivers. I was at 1.0 until I installed the latest ones, and now I'm at 5.8 (darn overpriced Corsair Dominators have been nothing but grief since I bought them).

Cheers,

d

 

[Wellsoul2]

Originally posted by: Tom
would be useful to know how Vista actually performs, particularly for people with lower scores.

My score is 4.1 due to the CPU.

My graphics rate much better around 5.5

Seriously..video decode performance for me is bad.
I get serious ghosting/dropped frames with HDTV live that I do not get in XP.

I'd guess this is because Vista uses software rather than hardware for the audio
and video chores and puts more load on the CPU.

I'd like to hear from people about their experience.
Does more CPU horsepower help with Vista?

It's not like I have an ancient CPU..it's an Opteron 148 overclocked to 2.4GHZ.

 

[Aberforth]

Originally posted by: Wellsoul2

Originally posted by: Tom
would be useful to know how Vista actually performs, particularly for people with lower scores.

My score is 4.1 due to the CPU.

My graphics rate much better around 5.5

Seriously..video decode performance for me is bad.
I get serious ghosting/dropped frames with HDTV live that I do not get in XP.

I'd guess this is because Vista uses software rather than hardware for the audio
and video chores and puts more load on the CPU.

I'd like to hear from people about their experience.
Does more CPU horsepower help with Vista?

It's not like I have an ancient CPU..it's an Opteron 148 overclocked to 2.4GHZ.

I don't think Vista is creating the problem, something is wrong maybe incompatible Video codecs/drivers. And also most users prefer 64bit version for Video encoding and image processing

 

[soonerproud]

Bump! :shocked:


My scores are typical for similar hardware.


Base score 5.1

CPU 5.1
RAM 5.9
Graphics 5.9
Gaming 5.2
PHD 5.8

The rig is in my sig.

Edited to reflect my new hard drive score.

 

[Noema]

5.4

 

[StopSign]

5.6

CPU: 5.6
Memory: 5.8
Graphics: 5.9
Gaming graphics: 5.8
Hard drive: 5.6

 

[Cutthroat]

5.8

CPU: 5.8
Memory: 5.9
Graphics: 5.9
Gaming graphics: 5.9
Hard drive: 5.9

Just need a Quad core to max it out for now. I wonder if SP1 will extend the max rating?

 

[AllGamer]

5.5 and that is because of the HDD, which is weird WD Raptors should perform much better than that.

 

[Cutthroat]

Originally posted by: AllGamer
5.5 and that is because of the HDD, which is weird WD Raptors should perform much better than that.

Do you have write caching turned on?

 

[videopho]

Total = 5.7
My e6600 has bogged the score down to 5.7. LOL
Otherwise everything else is 5.9

 

[AllGamer]

Originally posted by: Cutthroat

Do you have write caching turned on?

by default it is on, what's the idea you have?

 

[Cutthroat]

Originally posted by: AllGamer

Originally posted by: Cutthroat

Do you have write caching turned on?

by default it is on, what's the idea you have?

Umm no, it`s off by default.

 

[Evander]

Originally posted by: chr6
how does one raise their memory score? mine scores a 5.0, all other scores 5.9.

By adding more memory?

Anyway, I have a 2.6 base, the graphics card brings it down (graphics 2.6, gaming 2.0) everything else is at least a 4.0

Vista runs fine, but I'm running on the Win2K interface