"Windows Experience Index" - Post config and scores here

All:

I am VERY interested in seeing comparative scores for the Vista "Windows Performance Index" ratings of various PC's, particularly notebook/laptop PC's.

I would like to invite everyone to post their basic hardware config here, and their Windows Performance Index score. My laptop, which is an older beast, surprised the heck of out of me, so I'll be the first:

Insipron 9100,
Pentium 4 @ 2.8Ghz
2GB RAM
Vista Ultimate
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 w/64MB dedicated @ 1680x1050
120GB WD Scorpio HDD

Vista/Windows Experience Index: 3.1

I was STUNNED at that score. Never thought my old Inspy horse would fare that well. The Aero interface works just fine on my box, and the Vista Upgrade Advisor had already told me it would not.

Everyone else?? I figure those with newer boxes are going to get MUCH hotter scores on this...

-David

 

I thought we already had a thread for this? I should dig around for link...

brb .

Either way, specs in sig, WEI is 4.6

 

My base score is 4.7 for the spec in sig.
Processor 5.1
Memory 4.8
Graphics 4.7
Gaming graphics 5.3
Primary hard disk 4.9

 

Already been posted.... http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=152074

 

That's what I was searching for! =P

 

My apologies for not having dug further. I simply haven't had the need to dig into Vista at any level beyond the most superficial until recently. I also see that thread ended in a bit of a flamewar and I surely do not intend for that to happen here.

As I researched WEI more, and realized the score is the lowest of the five categories it calculates, I realize it isn't a raw speed or performance benchmark of anything, so no two "3.3" ratings are alike, or (in all honest) aren't even comparable. I won't try to trick myself into believing I'll see my old box perform comparably to, say, a T7250 w/256MB of dedicated video memory even if WEI says with both get a "3.3."

My other motivation for posting this was that I *knew* there was no way my trusty ol' P4-based Inspy 9100 was on a par with today's processors and GPU's. I'm more of the developer type rather than a gamer, and when I tried to run Company of Hereoes on my laptop a few months back and found it gasping for air at virtually every turn, it was the first time I realized just how old my machine was. In a very broad sense, I was expecting *huge* orders of magnitude in difference between my box and newer ones, but only after realizing how the numbers are calculated did I realized I was thinking in terms of a performance benchmark versus what WEI shows.

One thing I do know, however, is that most of these new CPU's are so much more powerful than their predecessors that they're in an area of performance where you're, for lack of a better term, outstripping your speedometer. That is, your speedometer may say you can drive 120MPH, but you never really do (at least I don't). I'm just wondering at what point these newer, dual- and quad-core CPU's start to have marginal performance improvement characteristics that are, in effect, raising the limit on that "speedometer" from 120 to 200, but I still know I'll never drive there...

Again, sorry for the duplicate thread. Did not research carefully enough.

-David

 

No worries. Your insight on the topic is appreciated

 

I think I remember someone saying that these scores were more driver based than anything else.

 

heres mines lol

 

I have that same computer except with Home Premium and a 40GB hard drive, and I have a 3.8 WEI score.

 

To the OP:
I am very uninterested in Vista Experience RAtings...Vista is highly inexperienced kid..it has no right to Rate my system.

2 GB DDR2 RAM, AMD Turion 64X2 TL-56 @ 1.8 GHz, nVidia Go 6100.

U rate it!

 

im guessing
ram 4.5
cpu 4.8
gpu 3.6
hdd 4.7 guessed lol
aero 4.6

 

This is mine.

 

Mine is 4.7

Processor: 5.1
Memory: 4.7
Graphics: 5.9
Gaming: 5.9
Primary Hard Disk: 5.0