What is a good windows experience index score?

I have 4.7, lowest being graphics card. Is this good enough? Whats the highest so far? (not only on lowest one but any one?)

 

That's very good.

 

Maximum WEI score in Vista = 5.9
Maximum WEI score in Win 7 = 7.9

 

I have a 5.5 in Win7. I think yours is good.

 

I have a machine that successfully runs Aero with a graphics card score of 1.0.

The 'experience score' is way overrated. No one really knows what is measured and how, PC makers don't even use the numbers in marketing.

If anyone could figure out how to completely remove the experience score software from a machine I'd be grateful.

 

The only good WEI is a completely ignored WEI.

More seriously, it is not clear what exactly it is measuring and the overall number is almost completely useless at determining performance in applications people actually care about. For example, last time we were comparing these things, we noticed that some laptops with an 8600M GT were getting much lower scores than others with an 8400M GS. There is no application I'm aware of wherein the latter beats the former, so this is rather misleading.

It also has the issue of having a maximum score -- if you want to do video editing, it is not helpful if a bunch of quad cores all give you 5.9, but the performance between them can vary by up to a factor of 2. They increased the score in Windows 7, but there is no way it will keep up with 2010 hardware.

 

all bla bla, it's quite obvious what it measures. and it's not useless or anything.

and newsposter, removing it? it's not like it hurts you, does it?

your machine with the aero on 1.0 sure does have some buggy driver, or you haven't updated the WEI at all.

the only annoying part of WEI is during setup. this can be fixed by installing on battery

 

Good enough for what? It's plenty good enough for light websurfing and document typing, it's not good enough for serious high-res gaming.

 

If you get a 46000, that's pretty good on a scale of 1 to 5.9.

Sarcasm aside, the WEI is kind of primitive. It also has questionable weighting. It considers a Q6600 (quad 2.4ghz) to be a 5.9, but a E8400 (dual 3Ghz) to be a 5.7.

 

It's good enough for what it is supposed to do.

 

And what, exactly, do you find questionable about this result? Other than the fact that your processor gets a lower score than somebody else's, I mean?

 

Again the bashing with little explanation...

Yes, above posters (I just selected those) are right when they say its not clear how scores are determined - also the test is pretty quick.

However WEI gives you arough idea.

If your computer gets 3.0 and you buy a game that needs 5.0 (same OS) then you obviously know it won't run.
It can also indicate a potenial bottleneck, if your CPU is your lowest value and your computer runs slow - there is a pointer (this scenario is unlikely, but theoretically possible).

Anything above 2 or 2.5 in Vista is more than good enough for just usage - 3.0 is what the Intel X3100 get's with very odl drivers, 3,4 on the newest (for me).

So, your value is a high one, it gives you a pointer towards that your laptop is very powerful.

If you want a real comparison run some benchmarks overnight.

 

hm, nice, as the quadcore gets up to "9.6ghz" of raw computing power, the dualcore gets up to "6ghz" in its best cases.

now don't ask me, but giving the quadcore better scores as it can be 60% faster in a lot of applications is .. right? not?

 

Don't add up the numbers and think that's the way the math works. Two people walking at 2 miles per hour are not faster than one person jogging at 3 miles per hour.

The Q6600 has less cache per core, and a lower bus speed. While it may have more cores, and may be faster in "a lot of applications", I'm going to take a wild guess and say that there's more single and dual-core optimized applications available than specific quad-core optimized ones. The WEI being from when Vista was new in 2006, when quad-cores barely even existed, I'm going to ponder a guess that the WEI is extrapolating a value it can't understand or can't weigh accurately, and assuming things about the processor.

I'm curious how Windows 7's WEI will rate them.

 

hehe, just bad that in the best case, that IS how the math works. and i have several cases where it does work that way.