5791 users: what is your windows experience index score?

i have a t7700 2.4ghz
512 7950 gtx
2 gb ram
7200 rpm 200gb hd
intel robson boost

i score 4.8

processor 5.3
memory 4.8
graphics 5.9
gaming graphics 5.9
primary hd 5.4

i didn't know having 2gb of ram would drop me that low.


my 3dmark06 score is 5473 (all settings at default and 1280x1024).

 

thats normal for having 2gb of ram

and your wei score is whatever the lowest number is its not an average of them all..

wow i should have got the 7950.. i hope i get a decent score with the 8700gt.. or ill be mighty upset

 

you will be upset because your windows index sucked? who cares! as long as it runs games well and works for you what does it matter?

 

^^^ i agree the wei has nothing at all to do with real performance..

 

On my M570RU running 64bit Vista, my numbers are pretty similar:

processor 5.3
memory 4.8
graphics 5.9
gaming graphics 5.6
primary hd 5.2

I'm using the same CPU as you ([email protected]), but I have 4 GB of RAM, a 160 GB hard disk, and the 8700M GPU. So my 3D graphics rating is a bit lower than yours. My hard disk is also a 7200 rpm so it must be the size that made mine lower. Note that the quantity of RAM made no difference to the rating.

I wonder how that number is rated?

 

WOW. sbuss, that's news to me. i thought adding more ram would give a better score. thanks for sharing!

 

T7700
4 GB RAM (on Vista 32)
250 GB 5400rpm
8700M

i got 4,8 total
CPU: 5,3
mem: 4,8
Aero: 5,9
games: 5,6
DD: 5,2

 

seems like 4.8 is the ref point then..

 

4.8 here :S mem (3gb)

 

can u d/l a program totest this? or do you have to have vista to use the index thing?

 

as far as i can tell, you need to have Vista

 

i score 4.8 in total
Processor: 5.1
Memory: 4.8
Graphics:5.9
Gaming graphics:5.6
Primary hard disk:5.3

and i got 4719 in 3dmark06

 

4.8 but does it matter

4.8 coz of ram.

 

that's strange
my 3Dmark was 4636 (or close around that)
and I've got a faster CPU ^^

 

If anybody listens to anything I have to say its this:
Never trust Windows Experience Index Score!!! It's a crap way to determine your computer's specs and performance, in fact it really doesn't do anything of the sort.

 

that RAM score is more than likely decided by the RAM's bus speed, so yeah, quantity would have nothing to do with it.

And im not sure Id go as far as saying that the windows experience index score is crap, I mean it IS usefull to see where your computer's bottlenecks are (Processor in my case, Core Solo) but i do agree that you shouldnt consider it when looking in a gaming perspective

 

I did come off strong, but thats only because I keep hearing everywhere about people boasting their WEI, thinking that it is a great way to determine performance. Like Poseign said, it is a good way to determine bottlenecks, and maybe if a piece of hardware is faulty and not performing as it should. If you are trying to figure out the performance of your computer and how well it will perform under heavy loads or while playing games, this is definitely not the tool to use.

 

Envision,

I'm perfectly willing to conceed that the WEI is probably not the world's best benchmark. If nothing else, because it's so easily faked (just stuff whatever values you want into some XML files). But in a sense, all benchmarks are crap unless they're testing exactly what you're interested in.

If the only thing you're interested in is the frame rate you're getting in Battlefield 2142, then the only way to know how a card/system is really going to perform is to run that game. It really doesn't matter what your 3DMark scores are if it doesn't play as well as you want. The same problem is true of any benchmark system.

Where I do think WEI is handy is that it's an easy way to generally determine the capabilities of any system running Vista. If I'm in Costco and see a laptop sitting there and I'm curious how good a machine it might be, it's easy to bring up the WEI score and get a rough idea of what the machine is like.

Another case is if I've got a client on the phone and his machine is running slowly, a quick check of the WEI will tell me the machine is a piece of junk or if there's something else wrong.

A couple of things I think Microsoft did right with WEI was make the overall score the same as the worst of the individual scores, and make the numbers small and simple (i.e. 5.1 instead of 2850). While the WEI isn't appropriate for tweaking a high-end gaming rig, it's not too bad for eyeballing an office computer.