[Donna]

Some members planned to upgrade to Vista in coming months while others are using it already or tried Vista. I'm wondering what's your score and if you plan to use that score in purchasing products?

For those who wonder what is Windows Experience Index Score in Vista. See the blog entry of Windows Vista Team here (with screenshots on how the scores can be use in Vista or on your shopping) or read part of their entry:

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The Windows Experience Index is a new feature built into Windows Vista. It is designed to help consumers understand how well Windows Vista and the software running on it will perform on a specific PC. The index achieves this by assessing the performance of the PC and assigning a score to it. The higher the score, the better the PC will perform.

The overall PC performance is represented by the base score. The base score is derived from 5 sub-scores for each of the following 5 attributes:
· Processor calculations per second
· Memory operations per second
· Graphics desktop performance for Windows Aero graphics
· Gaming graphics 3D graphics performance. Useful for gaming and 3D business applications
· Primary hard disk The data transfer rate of the primary hard disk

The Windows Experience Index is useful for the following:

1. When buying a new PC, it is useful for determining the quality of the Windows experience a buyer can expect from a particular PC.

2. When upgrading a PC, the index is useful for estimating the overall improvement a PC user can expect to get when replacing or adding a new hardware component.

3. When buying software, the software package may include the recommended Windows Experience Index base score a PC should have in order to run the particular software application well. If a PC has that score or a higher one, the software will run well on it.

[James]

My Dell Inspiron 6400 rates a 3.6 which is the score given my video card (a Radeon Mobility X1400 with 128MB of onboard RAM).

This post has been edited by James: 27 November 2006 - 11:44 AM

[guest]

I don't have Vista yet so I can't contribute a score.

I'll be purchasing Vista probably in 6 months for use on my P4 system.

Are there any plans to have it available through the CoU Store

[ColdinCbus]

I score a 3.0 because of my older P4. Actually everything in this machine is a few years old.

Processor Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.00GHz 3.0
Memory (RAM) 1.00 GB 3.8
Graphics RADEON 9550 (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) 3.6
Gaming graphics 511 MB Total available graphics memory 3.3
Primary hard disk 40GB Free (75GB Total) 5.3

[j3righo]

My 2 year old system (with some components upgraded) scored 4,1.

Processor Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.20GHz 4,3
Memory (RAM) 1,00 GB 4,2
Graphics RADEON X700 (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) 4,1
Gaming graphics 415 MB Total available graphics memory 4,1
Primary hard disk 13GB Free (21GB Total) 5,3

[Donna]

YoKenny, on Nov 27 2006, 04:14 AM, said:

I don't have Vista yet so I can't contribute a score.

I'll be purchasing Vista probably in 6 months for use on my P4 system.

Are there any plans to have it available through the CoU Store

I wish we could!

[Haroldo]

I never heard of scores until I saw this poll.

[Donna]

I had 1.0 base score when I clean-installed
I think it is because some of device drivers isn't installed yet.
After installing the necessary device drivers and installing some hardware updates via Windows Update, I got 2.0 as base score.
I have 3.4 base score now. Sub-scores as follows:



Vista is in a Dell small notebook (m1210). It has 1GB RAM, 80GB harddrive, GeForce 7400 Turbocache, processor is core duo (yonah only.. not merom). I'm not sure if the graphics card can be replaced with better one (just curious).
All in all, I'm happy with scores because I didn't get the notebook for gaming or some kind of 3D application. Just enough to run some of the features of Vista (aero, Windows Switcher, sidebar, slideshow)

I think the idea of having scores is nice for it will be guiding us in buying software or choosing a software. Maybe even freeware or open source applications for Vista will mark their applications with scores... later on. That will be neat

[Donna]

Haroldo, on Nov 27 2006, 11:07 AM, said:

I never heard of scores until I saw this poll.

Is it unique?

Innovation!

[Hardhead]

I have the following.

Processor Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.00GHz
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)
Memory (RAM) 1,00 GB
Gaming graphics 345 MB Total available graphics memory
Primary hard disk 16.7GB Free (25.4GB Total) that Vista is installed on is an IDE drive.
My other hard drive is a 64.6GB Free (74.5GB Total) and SATA drive which would give me better score if Vista was installed on that drive.

2 drivers missing
WD External HDD Button & Lights
PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_7002&SUBSYS_00201102&REV_0A

[Donna]

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PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_7002&SUBSYS_00201102&REV_0A

Is that a Creative application? If yes, I also have Creative application (Media Source Go) and soundblaster but it's not supported yet. I removed those and just use Sigmatel sound card driver.

[Hardhead]

Donna, on Nov 28 2006, 02:23 AM, said:

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PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_7002&SUBSYS_00201102&REV_0A

Is that a Creative application? If yes, I also have Creative application (Media Source Go) and soundblaster but it's not supported yet. I removed those and just use Sigmatel sound card driver.

Yep, its Creative.

[johngalt]

I returned the new video card and DVD player I got, and my score is a base 1.0.

However, I am planning on building a new system designed around the eVGA nForce 680i SLI 775 Mainboard (http://www.evga.com/...22-CK-NF68-AR). It received hands down high reviews from AnandTech and motherboards.org (http://www.motherboa.../intel7752006/) and at $250 retail it is not bad at all.

I am hoping that the final score I get with the new system I build will be well above 4.

[jjk454ss]

I wouldn't have guessed that a C2D E6600 would be the limiting factor. Time to OC I guess .

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[jjk454ss]

OC to 2.7 from 2.4 Ghz:

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[Hardhead]

Very nice jjk454ss

Just wondering out of curiosity. How much ram do you have installed?
1.5 or 2GB

[jjk454ss]

Hardhead, on Dec 6 2006, 09:27 PM, said:

Very nice jjk454ss

Just wondering out of curiosity. How much ram do you have installed?
1.5 or 2GB

Thanks, I have 2 GB of RAM. After seeing this thread and reading more about the Vista rating, I am going to try and get all scores maxed out at the 5.9.

This post has been edited by jjk454ss: 07 December 2006 - 04:22 AM

[Donna]

Wow! what a nice score you got!
C2D E6600 - that's awesome

Congrats to your nice score!

[Donna]

My 3.4 score has changed to 3.3

Microsoft released an updated driver via Windows Update in Vista. I grabbed it and it installed v7.15.10.9746
As expected, Windows Vista want me to refresh my score after updating the driver for the graphics card:



New score is now 3.3

[weaselthatbites]

LOL! Got to love it