Just curious to what everyone's "Windows experience index base score"s are and what kind of hardware scores what. Post your hardware details along with your scores.
Mine scores a 5.0
AMD Athlon X2 4400 2.3 - 5.0
5 gigs (2x2GB + 2x512GB) of Generic DDR2 800 - 6.1
ASUS GeForce 8600GT 512mb - 6.7 Gaming - 5.5
1TB Hitachi 3.0GB/s SATA2 HD - 5.9
When I try and run it it locks up my computer..........
IBM T42
It also locks up if I try to run a game (like hearts or solitare)
Most everything else I have tried works OK
Hmm interesting enough mine is only a 2.9. This is on a Dual Core 3.16 w/4g RAM running Win7 64bit. Graphics card is a Gforce 8800 GT x 2 (SLI). Whats ironic is my iMac which has a slower processor and only 2g RAM gets a 5.0. Go figure.
In my lappy running Vista Business, I get 2.5
In my desky running Windows 7 RC 7100, I get 1.0. due to onboard graphics, which driver is not supported.
There is a way to increase the score by changing the values in the XML. And I was told, when the rating increases, some of the feature gets unlocked. dunno if it is true.
For everyones amusement:
You all may noticed in the Windows Seven if your RAM limit is less than 3GB then your score is always limited to 5.5!!! ( see the xml mentioned below) So whether you have DDR3 RAM or buy cheap cheap, it will not make any difference!
There's a way to hack it:
Go to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\Datastore
and choose the XML file with the latest date, open it with word and change these values:
<WinSPR>
<SystemScore>x.x</SystemScore>
<MemoryScore>x.x</MemoryScore>
<CpuScore>x.x</CpuScore>
<CPUSubAggScore>x.x</CPUSubAggScore>
<VideoEncodeScore>x.x</VideoEncodeScore>
<GraphicsScore>x.x</GraphicsScore>
<GamingScore>x.x</GamingScore>
<DiskScore>x.x</DiskScore>
</WinSPR>
<Metrics>
Change the x.x between the <> and </> to whatever you want (not more than 7.9) .
In the previous folder (Winsat) you will see the movies they use to produce the data.
my result is amazing
cpu: amd x3 710 6mb L3 5.8
ram: 2x2gb kingston 800 ddr2 7.4
vga: onboard 3200 ati 4.3 grafik 4 gaming
hdd: seagate 500 gb sata 2 -32 mb 5.9
does anyone know why is my ram scoring 7.4 ???
IBM Thinkpad T42 Laptop
Intel Pentium M 1.8Ghz
1GB IBM RAM (2x512MB)
80GB 7200RPM Hitachi HD
Windows 7 RC Build 7100
Processor: 3.4
Memory: 4.1
Graphics for Aero: 2.0
Gaming graphics: 3.5
Primary hard Disk: 4.8
Overall Score: 2.0
I tried Vista on this laptop and it was a slow pig. But what a difference with Windows 7. Totally usable, even with the Aero enabled. I'm not going back.
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Im using
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm)8450 Triple-Core
Ram : 4G
PCIE Graphic: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
HDD: 860G
OS Build : 7201
Well, after doing another video card swap, I got my overall score to go up. However, it wasn't without any sacrifices. On the bright side, I can actually play games at slightly higher detail settings or get a better frame rate with lower settings. At least I understand that a 4350 isn't necessarily better than a 3650 (600 Mhz core clock vs. 725 Mhz core clock).