Vista Ratings are Messed Up?

My friend has a Sony Vaio FZ190 with a Core 2 Duo T7300, 3gb ram and Nvidia Geforce 8400M GT. When I rated his system I was surprised to see that his Graphics Rating was 5.2 and Gaming Graphics was 5.9.

However, when I did rated my system, Dell Vostro 1500 with T7500, 2.5gb ram and Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT I only got a 4.6 and a 5.2.


Now I know that Vista Ratings have absolutely no meaning and should be ignored, but I feel a bit uneasy about why my system with a considerably powerful graphics card got a lower rating that my friends system.

Can anyone provide me with an answer?

 

i bet if he redid his rating it would not stay. or, he may be using the hack that lets you make your pc whatever numbers you want

 

Nope. He knows nothing about computers In fact I was the one who set up his computer, with the clean install and the drivers installation.

He is running the 163.44 drivers, the same one as I am running as well.

 

I think rolling dice and taking an average is more accurate that WEI will ever be. It is a crap, non-industry benchmark that MS is using to try to con people into building certain parts (from companies paying MS I'm sure ).

In all seriousness, the score is highly dependent on drivers and other software on your PC. And when a 3dMark test runs for about 10-20 minutes don't you think it would be more accurate and more valuable than a stupid 2 minute WEI test?

 

does it really matter? as long as you are able to run whatever you want to with your setup, it doesn't mean jack what MS/vista spits back at you.

 

Vista index graphic rating is very bandwidth depandant. Vaio FZ has GDDR3, 1520 only with DDR2. It is normal for GDDR3 GPU laptop to score 5.9 in Graphics, and GDDR2 ones to score 4.6.

BTW, on the other hand, 3Dmark is very fill-rate dependent. So, yeah, synthetic benchmarks aren't all that great.

 

It matters because people pay for performance, even if its 1/100 of a second faster then the next guy, you still pay for it and you're upset when it doesn't shine.

That being said, I have no faith in that ranking either, my wife has a laptop and it scored only .1 lower than mine and but physically mine handles like a sports car and hers like a family wagon.

 

Yeah all sites say the same - those Vista Ratings are crap and I bet it gives higher ratings for hardware from certain vendors....

 

Is Vista a OS or a Video Game? What where they thinking when they came up with this? Sure a system scan to warn about a weakness or points of concern, sure that I understand.