Your Windows Experience Index Score

[TheGreatSatan]

What's your Windows Experience Index Score in Vista?

Here's my new Quad score (whenever it works right)

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/pp143/TheGreatSatan/prop.jpg



And the more detailed look. I can't believe my hard drive ruins it!

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/pp143/TheGreatSatan/scores.jpg

[Vitz¥^]

mine was 5.9 till i formatted my xp install and lost my dual boot option :crap: need to repair the installation prolly, but i never use vista really so havent bothered yet :)

[aintnothang]

5.6...damn processor.

[TheGreatSatan]

What hard drive gives you a 5.9?

[Luke122]

Probably a 10k-15k rpm drive with big cache. :) Or a raid setup.. or combination of both. Oh, or maybe an SSD?

[simon275]

Mine is 5.4 my hard disk is letting me down as the lowest score of any item is your system score. If it wasnt for that I would be a 5.9.

[aintnothang]

Shouldn't it be a average and not the lowest score?

[crenn]

5.7
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/crenn/th_VistaScore.jpg (http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/crenn/?action=view&current=VistaScore.jpg)


Shouldn't it be a average and not the lowest score?
No, because if your store is low, it's held back by it's weakest link.

[mtekk]

On my laptop(only Vista machine I have, and will be the only one for that matter (I don't plan on building a new windows box until Windows 7)), only 3.5, limited by the Intel GM965 chipset/x3100 graphics. Yeah integrated graphics are weak, but I do enjoy the 5+ hours of battery life.
CPU: 5.6
RAM: 5.0
Graphics: 3.5
Gaming graphics: 3.5
Primary hard disk: 4.7

[The boy 4rm oz]

I get 5.4 thanks to my HDD, everything else is 5.9. Time to get my Raptor/SSD and a Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB lol.

[crenn]

Wait a bit, the SanDisk SSDs are coming out and they're pricing seems to be getting close to VERY affordable, not quite there yet!

http://driveyourlaptop.com/

[The boy 4rm oz]

I have been looking into the SSDs and it seems that the only ones worth getting are the Intel ones, the other brands can be beaten by a standard mechanical drive. I will settle for a 74GB raptor I think, if I can find one lol. I still have a while to think about it, SSDs lose performance over time and need to be formatted frequently to stay at optimum performance, I am looking for a plug in and walk away drive lol.

[Vitz¥^]

What hard drive gives you a 5.9?

Probably a 10k-15k rpm drive with big cache. :)
yup

[The boy 4rm oz]

A raptor or a Samsung Spinpoint F1 should give you around that also, so will an SSD.

[TheGreatSatan]

SSD's can wait a couple years when they're as expensive as regular drives

[XcOM]

i fudged my score when i had vista installed, i tricked it into saying i had a score of 8!

shame i haven't got a print screen,

howto:

1) Navigate to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore
2) You should see a .xml file with date&time as filename
3) Right-click it and select 'open with>' 'Wordpad' (Not notepad!)
4) On line 12, you should see something like the following:

< -SystemScore ->8.8< /SystemScore >
< -MemoryScore ->8.8< /MemoryScore >
< -CpuScore ->8.8< /CpuScore >
< -CPUSubAggScore ->8.8< /CPUSubAggScore >
< -VideoEncodeScore ->8.8< /VideoEncodeScore >
< -GraphicsScore ->8.9< /GraphicsScore >
< -GamingScore ->8.8< /GamingScore >
< -DiskScore ->8.8< /DiskScore >

5)The score i marked red above is your current rating score
6) Now modify any score you want according to it's section.
7) Save it.

Now have a look on your latest rating score!

[The boy 4rm oz]

HAHA, trust XcOM to find a way around the Vista score lol.

[TheGreatSatan]

+Rep for sure. That is funny


EDIT:

It won't let me save the file.:(

[XcOM]

you need to open the file with admin privilages, ie start notepad in admin mode, you might even need to load in safe mode, but as far as i can rem its just admin needed to do it



HAHA, trust XcOM to find a way around the Vista score lol.

trust me, if windows isn't supposed to do it, i can more than likely get it to work, i was known at school and most previous jobs and the computer god.

Mainly because i can edit the windows code (Kernel included)

[crenn]

Xcom, put the hex editor down and step away from the assembly.

[XcOM]

Xcom, put the hex editor down and step away from the assembly.

sorry sir,

one last fix, please,,,,please,,,I NEED IT

ah, and im running linux now, i want to learn linux, so im starting simple, ubuntu, then i will try gentoo, and when im feeling really brave i might even try arch!

[crenn]

I just jumped in the deep end with debian.... I still haven't managed to get it to remote properly.

[XcOM]

im learning, im going to order a linux boox to help me learn it, and i've been reding the help files/forums when i've had a problem, sofar i've not come up against something i can't fix

[Spawn-Inc]

5.7 due to my ram...

5.9 for everything else, included my hdd. a Seagate Barracuda 250gb 410as model.

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/2303/19212182vs9.jpg

[bartvandenberg]

This is my score. lets see anyone else beat this......

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7204/weindexyr9.jpg


See, my computer is so perfectly tuned/modded, its now untouchable. I got bonus points even..

[bartvandenberg]

What hard drive gives you a 5.9?


Probably a 10k-15k rpm drive with big cache. Or a raid setup.. or combination of both. Oh, or maybe an SSD?


yup

My new 500 GB WD Black dual proc 32mb cache gives a 5.9 (7200rpm sataII)

[The boy 4rm oz]

I really need new HDDs, 1 they are almost full and 2 they are holding me back from a 5.9 like bart.

[Spawn-Inc]

well to be honest i don't think this program knows what the hell its doing. on my q6600 i get 5.9 stock and oc'ed to 3.5GHz. i've seen others with stock q6600's get 5.5 or 5.0

[bartvandenberg]

Its not accurate at all. My wifes brother gets a 1.0 with his 8800 gts 640mb card. latest drivers, plays all games beautifully, but vista doesnt seem to like it. i mean, my laptop gets a 3.0 with its crummy video card.

[nevermind1534]

Its not accurate at all. My wifes brother gets a 1.0 with his 8800 gts 640mb card. latest drivers, plays all games beautifully, but vista doesnt seem to like it. i mean, my laptop gets a 3.0 with its crummy video card.

If it's a one, it must be having a problem recognising it. Sometimes it will do that, then, later, out of nowhere, it turns to a 5.9.

[The boy 4rm oz]

According to Microsoft a PC with a total score of 3 can run Vista with Aero on at a res of 1280x1024, any score higher than 3 should be able to run Vista with all features enabled. So either way we all win haha.

[AMD Killa]

I get a 5.9 on my system with a seagate harddisk.

Windows 7 has a score out of 7.9 instead of 5.9 (without modding the XML File). It also means that my PATA disk that used to score 3.9 in vista now scores 2.0 in windows 7 because they are expecting more improvements in hardware.

The windows 7 WINSAT test takes longer than the Vista WINSAT test. I know it tests DirectX10 stuff as well, but it takes over twice as long for me :hurt:

[bartvandenberg]

where do i get his windows 7 everyone is starting to talk about? thought it wasnt released till end of this year yet.?

[crenn]

where do i get his windows 7 everyone is starting to talk about? thought it wasnt released till end of this year yet.?
Wrong thread.
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17386

[Vitz¥^]

Windows 7 rates my GFX card (8800GTS512) as 2! 2! wtf! 2! lol. everything else is over 6, but 2! for my GFX! ROFL!

[nevermind1534]

in 7, here's my results:

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/2213/windows7weiscorene2.png

[XcOM]

This is my score. lets see anyone else beat this......

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7204/weindexyr9.jpg


See, my computer is so perfectly tuned/modded, its now untouchable. I got bonus points even..



you have modded the XML file haven't you, vista only goes upto 5.9, and thats the wrong sidebar for windows 7?

[crenn]

you have modded the XML file haven't you, vista only goes upto 5.9, and thats the wrong sidebar for windows 7?

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/crenn/th_VistaScore-1.jpg (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/crenn/VistaScore-1.jpg)
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/crenn/th_7Score.jpg (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/crenn/7Score.jpg)

[TheGreatSatan]

Its not accurate at all. My wifes brother gets a 1.0 with his 8800 gts 640mb card. latest drivers, plays all games beautifully, but vista doesnt seem to like it. i mean, my laptop gets a 3.0 with its crummy video card.

Did he "refresh scores" after he loaded all the drivers?