Windows Experience Index

I have a dv2000t with an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200. Yes, it's a relatively crappy video card but it does have 128MB integrated RAM. It gives me a score of 2.7, which is my overall score. Without the graphics score, my computer is all in the low 4's.

I've heard that it's just the drivers not being optimized for Vista yet, but I want to know if there's anything I can do to boost my score.

 

The Go 7200 is a pretty weak video card. What driver version are you running?

 

Make sure that your windows power plan is set to "max performance". This made my GeForce Go 6150 integrated graphics go from 2.4 to 3.0, which is a big improvement from when the power plan was set to balanced. Also, check your BIOS and see if your card is getting its fair share of system memory (if there is an option called "VRAM size"), since that makes up 3/4 of your card's memory. Just hit F10 to enter it when you initially turn your machine on. Lastly, I highly suggest that you visit LaptopVideo2Go.com and update your driver with a better one. They are updated more often than HP's drivers and it increased my 3DMark03 score about 50%.

-J.B.

 

The windows experience really is a junky way to get a benchmark of your computer. It can change wildly from time to time. 3DMark05 is much better. I wouldn't be too worried about the score Windows gives you.

 

I get a 2.4 for gaming graphics with my dv6000 notebook even when I set it to 'high performance' profile. I agree that the Windows Experience Index might not be the best way to get a benchmark but I'd still like to know how other people with similar or less powerful notebooks are managing to get a higher windows experience index score? I'm using the 171.16 drivers from laptopvideo2go and have set my VRAM to 128MB in the BIOS. What's different from what you've got Jstn7477?

 

I just ran 3D Mark 06 and I have the integrated GPU (Nvidia GeForce Go 7150M). It did REALLY bad and the laptop got really hot. I have to check out the site you mentioned. It's just sad - my single core Pentium 4 with ATI Radeon X800 GT scored more than double the laptop I just got. The PC is like 4 years old. I didnt' buy it for graphics - it can run Doom 3 on the lower settings and it runs Warcraft 3 just fine, but I would imagine graphics would have gotten a little more efficient since then.

 

Download NTune and optimize your card so it will increase the mhz for gaming. I went from running 15 fps to 90 fps on my 8600gs. Big Big difference. I only did the 20 min coarse tune also. Maybe I'll run the fine tune at night soon.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/ntune_5.05.54.00.html

 

WEI is inaccurate, you shouldnt worry about this. I remember getting 2.4 on standard drivers and 2.9 with laptopvideo2go.com drivers but my Go 7200 (32mb) managed to play WoW on default settings and css on high settings with AA off. Its got alot of grunt for an outdated card, i was really suprised.

Unfortunately it died out after 5 months due to mobo failure

 

Yup I used Ntune to optimize the card and my scores went up. Now my gaming graphics has a score of 3.0 as opposed to 2.4 before the optimization, graphics and memory score went up too. Surprisingly, my notebook feels a lot faster now as well. Would recommend ppls with Nvidia graphics cards to run it. I wonder if the overclocking it did is safe or not in the long run (2+ years) though.