Vista Experience Index - Is this normal?

My notebook (see sig) scores 5.9 in all except for the graphics which it gives 5.8.

I have finished reading a thread where someone who has a single 8800M GTX has a 5.9 score for graphics. So how come I get 5.8 with SLi?

It's not that I'm complaining over a 0.1 but I want to exclude any possible problems...

Btw SLi is enabled and I get 13670 in 3dmark06.

 

WEI is absolutely useless...you'd think someone who uses computers as powerful as yours would know that .

 

Bottom line: because WEI is baloney. It doesn't actually benchmark anything; rather, as far as I can tell, it reads the specs of your installed components and then "guesstimates" how good each component is based, most likely, on the subjective judgments of MS engineers/coders. In order to make any guess as to why the chap with the single 8800M is being treated preferably, you'd have to compare all of his system's specs to yours - it could be something as simple as different types of RAM, or different processors.

 

Is having had Vista for only 13 days a justifiable excuse?

Shyster, I thought useless as it might be, since it gives a separate score for each component then it will treat each separate component in the same way, irrespective of what the other components consist of...

 

An excuse? Yup, it always takes a while to break free of the grip MS' snow-job eye candy puts on the innocent!

I think the algorithm, albeit still pretty simplistic, is a little more involved and tries to guesstimate the synergistic effect of the suite of components as well (e.g., since all GPUs have to have some sort of access to system memory, even if it's not shared memory, the type/speed of your RAM is probably factored into the score given the GPUs).