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Windows Vista : What's your Windows Experience Index Base Score?

post #1 of 64
1/2/07 at 3:39am
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I was analyzing the base score I got on my XPS and felt that RAM's score is not really impressive even though I bought the maximum available bandwidth. So, lets see if anyone got good scores (any sub score) and how? Let's share the score and any spl tweaking you did to get there.

If you want inside information, there is an article on Windows Vista team's blog titled Windows Experience Index: An In-Depth Look

Here is my PC's Base Score:



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post #2 of 64
1/2/07 at 4:47am
My 5,400 drive lets me down most...and I only have 1 GB RAM...lol my nVidia (7900 GSX) beats the XPS for gaming...

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post #3 of 64
1/2/07 at 4:50am
I notice your running 64 BIT...had any issues with it ie. software or anything?
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post #4 of 64
1/2/07 at 9:12am
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Originally Posted by anandpnagar
I was analyzing the base score I got on my XPS and felt that RAM's score is not really impressive even though I bought the maximum available bandwidth. So, lets see if anyone got good scores (any sub score) and how? Let's share the score and any spl tweaking you did to get there.

If you want inside information, there is an article on Windows Vista team's blog titled Windows Experience Index: An In-Depth Look

Here is my PC's Base Score:

my scores are:

CPU: 4,9
MEMORY: 4,5
GRAPHICS: 5,9
GAMING GRAPHICS: 5,8
HARDISK: 5,1

specs: M1710 core 2 duo 2ghz | 512mb 7900gtx | 2gb 667mhz | 100gb 7200rpm
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post #5 of 64
1/2/07 at 12:19pm
4.7 as well on the M90 in the signature.
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post #6 of 64
1/2/07 at 3:54pm


For whatever reason it keeps telling me that I have new hardware found. I have refreshed the score a zillion times and get the same thing. My CPU (being a 533Mhz FSB) and my RAM are my downfall here also.

***EDIT***
Fixed it! For some reason my date/time were wrong. Set it right, and it worked!
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post #7 of 64
1/2/07 at 4:16pm
wow, im gonna have to install vista again... my index was 5.2 in 64bit. I wonder why some of your memory scores are so low... are you running stock Dell memory?
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post #8 of 64
1/2/07 at 8:51pm
I have a 4.5 on ram aswell. Running and m90 with 2 gigs 667 ram.
Wierd refreshed my score with no success. Running Dell Stock RAM.


CPU: 4.9
MEMORY: 4.5
GRAPHICS: 5.9
GAMING GRAPHICS: 5.9
HARDISK: 5.0

One other thing I noticed when running DXDIAG from the RUN menu I get 766 megs of Video Ram. Seems vista increases my Video memory with System memory.
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post #9 of 64
1/2/07 at 10:05pm
while i haven't tested it recently, some numbers from when i first installed it (RC2, though the version shouldn't matter too much, right?). it seems a bit strange that the memory is the lowest of a lot of your systems.

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~cey/performance.jpg

this is obviously on my m90, because if my 700m was getting these kind of scores, the 5.9 point maximum would be kind of useless. anyway, it's good enough, except for the lack of hard drive space (when the dvd drive is in), and i still use xp primarily.

edit: whoops, i guess the limit on how much bandwidth i used displaying that image openly was more than my school account thing allows.
just for reference, if the link doesnt work
CPU: 4.9
Memory: 4.9
Graphics: 5.9
Gaming graphics: 5.8
Primary hard disk: 4.8

Base Score: 4.8
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post #10 of 64
1/2/07 at 10:32pm
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post #11 of 64
1/2/07 at 11:08pm
yee245 the Windows Experience index did change quite a bit over the different builds...your will be different than the finasl release version...
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post #12 of 64
1/3/07 at 12:27am
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I think I could figure out why all of us are getting maximum RAM score of 4.7. The article, I included link for in first post, has some sample (hopefully expected too) benchmarks.

In that article, 1Gb DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz gives scores 4.1 and 2Gb DDR3 SDRAM at 800MHz gives 5.1. So, it seems that 4.7 is the maximum we can get with 2 Gigs at 667 MHz.

For those who didn't have time to read that article:
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The scale of the Windows Experience Index ranges from 1 to 5.9.
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Over time, we expect to introduce higher scale levels of 6 and beyond. This will be done approximately every 12-18 months, as new innovations in hardware become available. When new base scores are introduced, existing scores will not change (i.e. a PC with a base scored of 2.2 today will score a 2.2 in the new updated index, unless its components are upgraded).
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post #13 of 64
1/3/07 at 12:40am
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Originally Posted by the_scotsman
I notice your running 64 BIT...had any issues with it ie. software or anything?

I ran 64 bit for some time but finally I removed that and loaded 32 bit. I feel that the industry is not yet ready for 64 bit for Home + Dev users. I am saying this because of the reason you mentioned. Its really difficult to get 64 bit applications.

What Vista does is that it allows installing 32 bit application and even maintains separate Program Files folder for them. And if I am running 32 bit application on 64 bit platform, the purpose is lost. I think thats even more to do for OS to run 32 bit on 64 bit. May be wrong but just a thought.

By the way, I have updated the sig.
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post #14 of 64
1/3/07 at 3:48am
I was running the first version of RC2 when I got the above # was kinda shocked when I saw it seeing my old Gen1 would only score in the 3's
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post #15 of 64
1/3/07 at 5:03am
As I mentioned above, the scores actually changed with various builds of Vista...dont go by anything except the final release for an accurate comparison.
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post #16 of 64
1/3/07 at 9:40am
If anyone is wondering about the memory performance with fast 553 MHz vs slow 667 MHz chips, the 2x2 GB memory I have (533 MHz at 4-4-4-11-15) gives exactly the same 4.7 Vista index as 667 would with latency of 5. So go ahead and get yourself a pair. My experience in Vista with lots of developer stuff around is nothing but very positive. 4 GB will be a must if you want to use your machine's potential to the limit. For example, three open Acrobat documents claimed 270 MB of memory. A MySQL database running in server mode claims 560 MB alone. If you want to run a Java applications server like JBoss, an Eclipse instance with lots of plugins, and an Intellij IDEA instance, you're looking at something in the region of 2.4 GB already.
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post #17 of 64
1/3/07 at 10:40am
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Originally Posted by warrior-kid
4 GB will be a must if you want to use your machine's potential to the limit.
Well a bit more than 3GB would be enough, since Vista will not be able to use more than that...
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For example, three open Acrobat documents claimed 270 MB of memory.
Whoah, hold it: How large are those documents? What version of Acrobat? What version of Vista? How did you find that number? The above statement is entirely useless without that information. For comparison. I just loaded three docs totalling something like 60MB in Acrobat 7.08 on XP, and it used about 70MB as shown in Task Manager. There is no way the same program will use significantly more on Vista with the same documents. Unless you are running 64-bit Vista, and counting the redundant 32-bit DLLs it will have to load in order to run a 32-bit application.
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A MySQL database running in server mode claims 560 MB alone.
Again, without knowing anything about the database, that is a meaningless number.
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post #18 of 64
1/3/07 at 12:16pm
My bad, I was looking at Commit Size as opposed to Private Working Set.

However, two Acrobat documents took 60 MB when loaded (one small and one e-book with 700 pages). After 5 minutes, the memory taken by Acrobat went up to 83 MB.

Without any open connections, MySQL takes 50 MB. I'll look closer when it's under load.

IBM Rational Software Architect is definitely taking a lot of memory when working with UML diagrams and such.

Incidentally, I've disabled SuperFetch and SearchIndexer and my disk is quiet now and 3DMark 2006 rose from 5200 to 5400. Still not a match on XP though.

Also, I'm using a 4x6 Wacom Intuos 3, and Vista recognises everything I'm typing now. OneNote is bloody good at finding stuff including your handwritten notes (that are not even converted to text), text in attached PICTURES, and even text in Audio recordings. It is incredible what you can do with a pen now.
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post #19 of 64
1/3/07 at 7:22pm
You won't get a higher memory score unless you have memory running at a higher clock and FSB. On a Desktop system with a 1066 FSB and 800MHz DDR2 I got 5.8. BTW-you can find the raw data in windows\performance\winsat\datastore. It is kept in XML files.

Bob
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post #20 of 64
1/4/07 at 12:32am
Dump Adobe Acrobat and get Foxit Reader.
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