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    What's your average Vista Experience Score?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by TaiMaiShu, Jul 10, 2007.

  1. TaiMaiShu

    TaiMaiShu Notebook Guru

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    My average score is 4.76 and my base score is 4.3(from the HD)... What's yours?
     
    TaiMaiShu, Jul 10, 2007
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    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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  3. GoSensGo

    GoSensGo Notebook Consultant

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    My average score is 5.28 and my base score is 4.8.
     
    GoSensGo, Jul 10, 2007
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  4. R4000

    R4000 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Here's mine:
     

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  5. LIVEFRMNYC

    LIVEFRMNYC Blah Blah Blah!!!

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    2.1-3.0 Overall based on Graphics. My Graphics is a 2.3. But I get a 4.0 and above on everything else individual.
     
    LIVEFRMNYC, Jul 11, 2007
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    Whoa, how'd you get a 5.28 average with a Sony FZ? Isn't the video card just an 8400 or something? Can I see your specs?

    EDIT: my score, 4.5's the lowest
     
    GlueEater, Jul 11, 2007
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  7. w_tanoto

    w_tanoto Notebook Consultant

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    base score: 3.0
    highest score (graphic card): 5.9
    hard disk: 4.2
    Processor: 3.8
    gaming: 3.0
     
    w_tanoto, Jul 11, 2007
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  8. chimpanzee

    chimpanzee Notebook Virtuoso

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    what would be the reason where there is a very high score of graphic sub-system yet pretty low gaming or vice versa ?

    I am sure my x1250 is not a fast one for gaming(some would say barely usable) yet it scores 3.8 which seems to be higher than some dedicated GPU.
     
    chimpanzee, Jul 11, 2007
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  9. w_tanoto

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    My graphic was well below 5 before. while for gaming it stayed with 3.
    After I added further 512 memory, I have the graphic elevated to maximum, 5.9.
    I was pleasantly surprised, although my base score still the same. My question, why, and can memory raised the score to 5.9?
     
    w_tanoto, Jul 11, 2007
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  10. ViciousXUSMC

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    Dont take the vista test to heart too much, its far from any real performance benchmark. It pretty much pulls numbers out of the air based on your hardware.

    In my case 4.3 is my score because my cpu is the lowest score....
    my cpu is very fast tho 2.8ghz Opteron 148.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Jul 11, 2007
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  11. chimpanzee

    chimpanzee Notebook Virtuoso

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    That is basically what I wanted to say, I removed the conclusion from the post :)
     
    chimpanzee, Jul 11, 2007
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  12. System64

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    4.4

    Processor - T7200 C2D 4.9
    RAM - 2GB Dual Channel 4.6
    Graphics - 1GB ATi Mobility Radeon X1700 4.4
    Gaming Graphics - 4.8
    Primary HDD - 4.5
     
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  13. GoSensGo

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    Yeah, I have an FZ190 CTO with blu-ray.
    specs:
    -T7700
    -2gb of pc5300 memory
    -160gb seagate momentus 7200.2
    -256 mb 8400M GT

    [​IMG]
     
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  14. Gautam

    Gautam election 2008 NBR Reviewer

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    You shouldn't be getting AVERAGE scores at all...unless you are changing hardware all the time, your WES should stay very constant.
     
    Gautam, Jul 11, 2007
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    I agree, but it would be nice if it was a decent benchmark tool. The concept is a great idea. Right now consumers have to look at minimum system requirements, recommended system requirments, many say 3.0ghz or higher processor (no mention of dual core processors being plenty), etc. It would be nice if my mom or dad could look at the box and say "It's a 3.5, my computer can run this program."
     
    paddlefoot, Jul 13, 2007
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    my base score was a 3.6 due to the processor, i am no longer on vista though.
     
    mrXniick, Jul 14, 2007
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  17. chatte

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    2 - intel graphics :)
     
    chatte, Jul 14, 2007
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  18. byrond

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    PROCESSOR - 4.9
    RAM - 4.5
    GRAPHICS - 3.7
    GAMING GRAPHICS - 3.4
    HARD DISK - 4.8

    Average = 4.26

    Does anyone know how to increase the Gaming Graphics?
     
    byrond, Jul 16, 2007
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  19. GoSensGo

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    You can't increase our gaming graphics unless you have different graphics card. I don't think the gpus are replaceble in notebooks as they are part of the board.
     
    GoSensGo, Jul 16, 2007
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  20. byrond

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    thanks dude bit of a shame really
     
    byrond, Jul 17, 2007
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  21. Pitabred

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    Wait... so you can only see your Vista experience score AFTER installing Vista? That sounds kinda pointless, doesn't it? I mean, if I'm gonna have a crappy experience with Vista, I'd want to know BEFORE I install it, not afterwards.
     
    Pitabred, Jul 17, 2007
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  22. sa_ill

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    Processor: 4.9
    RAM: 4.5
    Hard Drive: 4.5
    Gaming Graphics: 4.9
    Graphics: 5.0

    Average: 4.86
     
    sa_ill, Jul 17, 2007
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  23. ViciousXUSMC

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    the 512mb 8600gt only pulls a 4.5 on the vista scale... that thing is so unrelable.

    so thats my lowest score is my gaming graphics at a 4.5

    it would really suck if you have a game like shadowrun that requires a 4.0 to play and you know your stuff is good enough to play it but vista ays you have a 3.9 or something and so the game wont even start.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Jul 19, 2007
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