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    T61p Windows Experience Index Score!

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by jooooeee, Mar 12, 2008.

  1. jooooeee

    jooooeee Stealth in disguise

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    What is your Vista Index Experience Score for your T61p?

    What are your specs?

    What is the bottle neck of you system?
     
    jooooeee, Mar 12, 2008
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  2. SkeeteRX8

    SkeeteRX8 Notebook Deity

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    The 2GB of RAM, I'm planning my upgrade to the GEIL heatsink ram from Newegg.
     
    SkeeteRX8, Mar 12, 2008
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    My bottleneck seems to be the RAM as well. When I had 2GB stock RAM, it was 4.8, and when I upgraded to 3GB, it remained the same. What do I have to do to raise the RAM score?
     
    PocketAces21, Mar 12, 2008
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  4. jooooeee

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    I forgot to post mine I have a 5.1

    My bottleneck is my RAM (4GB of Crucial 667Mhz)
     
    jooooeee, Mar 13, 2008
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  5. Tim

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    My score is 4.8. My bottleneck is the ram 3GBs.
    Tim
     
    Tim, Mar 13, 2008
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  6. jooooeee

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    Who squeezed out a 5.2?
     
    jooooeee, Mar 13, 2008
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  7. Renee

    Renee Notebook Virtuoso

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    I'm a little leary of some of the scores too.

    I have an absolutely maxed out T61p.

    It has Vista 64 Sp1, 4 gigs of Lenovo memory, a 2.6 ghz processor and a 200 gb 7200 rpm disk and quadro graphics. There really isn't any more you can put on a T61p to make it perform better. Like others my RAM is the slowest, the graphics were really excellent. So how does someone get a higher score than with a maxed out machine?
     
    Renee, Mar 13, 2008
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  8. Hackez

    Hackez Notebook Evangelist

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    Its been stated numerous times on these forums and across the internet. The WEI score given by Windows Vista is not only inaccurate, its just plain useless.
     
    Hackez, Mar 13, 2008
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    I can't see anyone getting over 5.2 mine is maxed out besides the processor but my desktop has a 3.5Ghz dual core nd can only pull 5.8.
     
    jooooeee, Mar 13, 2008
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  10. webdtc

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    My RAM is the lowest at 5.1. It doesn't matter how much RAM I have it's always 5.1.

    All my other scores are:
    Processor: 5.4
    Graphics: 5.9
    Gaming: 5.4
    Hard Disk: 5.3

    One time I got 5.2 overall.
     
    webdtc, Mar 13, 2008
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  11. Prasad

    Prasad NBR Reviewer 1337 NBR Reviewer

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    5.9 is the highest it goes ??
     
    Prasad, Mar 13, 2008
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  12. Renee

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    My desktop is a Conroe Extreme with 4 gigs (Kingston hyper-ex) running Vista 32, terrific graphics and 15k rpm server disks.

    It gets a 5.7 on the Vista scale with memory and the processor being the bottle neck.

    My t61p gets a 5.1. I am really dubious of any T61p score higher than 5.1.
     
    Renee, Mar 13, 2008
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  13. dohuy

    dohuy Notebook Consultant

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    My WEI is 5.0 w/ the bottleneck being RAM. Everything is stock except an added 2GB stick of Crucial PC2-5300. I've also yet to do a clean install and have Windows Vista Home Premium as my OS.
     
    dohuy, Mar 13, 2008
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    SouthPaw42 Notebook Enthusiast

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    ThinkPad T61P 6459-CTO
    Core 2 Duo processor T9300 (2.5GHz 800MHz 6MBL2)
    Windows Vista Home Premium 32
    15.4 WUXGA TFT LG
    NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M (256MB Open GL)
    G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) CAS 4 Timing 4-4-4-12 Dual Channel
    100GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm
    DVD Recordable 8x Max Dual Layer
    Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
    Integrated Bluetooth PAN
    UltraWide Band (UWB)

    [​IMG]
     
    SouthPaw42, Mar 14, 2008
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  15. jpcdmd

    jpcdmd Notebook Guru

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    I have 3.5 on my x61s, my bottleneck is the graphics. How hard is it to remedy this? I do not have the Nvidia upgrade.
     
    jpcdmd, Mar 15, 2008
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  16. Arki

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    You can't remedy it. You have the integrated Intel video card so it's expected to produce a low graphics score. The only way to boost that score is if you find better drivers.
     
    Arki, Mar 15, 2008
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