Windows Experience Index Scores

What are yours???

By Armbut Posted March 24, 2007 22:58:17

Hey there. I'm just wondering for those who have Vista, what your Windows Experience Ratings are?

My Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 2 3800+ 2.0GHz--4.8
1GB PC4200 DDR2 Dual Channel RAM--4.5
ATI Radeon X1300 Pro 256MB--4.7 Graphics; --4.2 Gaming Graphics
160GB SATA 3.0GB/s Hard Drive

My Base Score is 4.2 (Gaming Graphics is lowest subscore)

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Looks like I might have a slight problem here. All I get is this:

Anyone know why I get no scores up, and what I can do about it?

Looks like I might have a slight problem here. All I get is this:

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Anyone know why I get no scores up, and what I can do about it?

first of all i would contact microsoft support and hope you dont get an indian person that you cannot understand (no offense to anyone that may be of that culture), then tell them what the problem is and hope they can help you fix it. Other than that, try doing a system restore or a Complete-PC Backup if your using Vista Ultimate. I hope i could help you out with this.

Well, since System Restore is disabled, I guess that's out of the question...

I managed to pull some info from WBconfig, and I think I'm gonna cry now:

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 2.8

Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 2.8

nVidia Geforce LE 7300 w/256 DDR

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nVidia Geforce LE 7300 w/256 DDR

you only get a 2.8 on that card?????? WOW! Something is messed up here!

see if you have the most up-to-date drivers from nVidia for your card

well, I see there's newer driver available. I'll give that a go, and hope for the best
Prolly wont affect my current score, since I can't "re-rate" from the Control Panel...

But, here goes nothing.

Well, new driver didn't do diddley, so I had a go at Google and found the reason and solution.
TweakVI is the culprit. By default it disables access to the experience score plus all features related to this. I got full access once this option had been enabled
But my GFX score is still as crappy as before....

Component

Details

Subscore

Base score

Processor

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+

4,8

2,8

Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM)

2,00 GB

5,7

Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE

2,8

Gaming graphics

751 MB Total available graphics memory

3,1

Primary hard disk

75GB Free (86GB Total)

5,5

Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate

Whuups.... forgot to post the solution - just in case anyone else runs into the same problem:

open TweakVI
Miscellaneous Tweaks
Change system folder settings
Control Panel Restrictions II
uncheck Turn off access to the Performance Center core section

If nothing changes, just reboot and all should be well.

thanks for posting that, Snowman (i havent even installed that proggie but who knows, someone might have exactly the same problem)

Snowman - To get a higher GFX score I always go into Windows Classic and 640x480 screen res. It works

Windows Classic and 640x480 screen res

hah nice

Whuups.... forgot to post the solution - just in case anyone else runs into the same problem:

Yeah, me - it took me ages to make my earlier post with the score, same reason. Did exactly the same as you

Base score 4.2

Athlon 64 3700+ (san diego) @ 2.2GHz => 4.2
2 GB GEIL PC3200 3.4.4.8 Dual Channel=> 5.8
XFX GeForce 7600GT xXx @ 590/1600 => 5.9
Gaming Graphics => 5.2
HD WD ata100 80GB => 4.9

I am using my old ATA100 because I wanted to preserve the XP Pro on my hitachi 160GB SATA300 for safety (in case I hate Vista) , But why is my CPU so low?

Snowman - To get a higher GFX score I always go into Windows Classic and 640x480 screen res. It works

Well, actually I think you were only joking PurrBall, but heck I had to try it out anyways
800X600 was the lowest res I could get, 16 bit colors and Windows Classic bumped up the score a bit:

Component

Details

Subscore

Base score

Processor

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+

4,8

3,1

Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM)

2,00 GB

5,7

Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE

3,2

Gaming graphics

751 MB Total available graphics memory

3,1

Primary hard disk

75GB Free (86GB Total)

5,5

Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate

Doesnt look all half-bad now hehe

Intel video editing but seems to run games and Vista64 well.

00Nuke

Curious.. what is the model CPU you are using that is 3.7 GHZ? I didnt think intel had dual core chips above say a 2.7 (or 2.x)?

Cheers

Yeah its an overclocked E6600 core 2 duo

If you go into Advanced and List all modes you can get to 640x480 with 256 color. I also like to change the wallpaper to solid black to minimize impact on RAM..

The Performance Information and Tools control panel breaks at that screen setting but you can still start the assesment and it will show once you set the screen settings back to normal.. Nvidia released WHQL 158.18 drivers today.

Component Details Subscore Base score
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ -3.1
2.3 Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM) 1.00 GB - 3.7
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 6200 - 2.3
Gaming graphics 511 MB Total available graphics memory - 3.0
Primary hard disk 3GB Free (37GB Total) - 5.2
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate

Dont laugh at my 2.3. It works for me for now.

And yes my Athlon runs at 1.8Ghz. I can even run some dreams.

Will try the latest Nvidia drivers to see if it helps, but at the mo I get better graphics score with the Vista drivers over Nvidia.

As far as updating drivers, Nvidia is going in the wrong direction:

My hp dv9230us laptop:

As purchased (Nvidia 97.46 drivers)

cpu Core 2 Duo T5500 (1.6ghz) 4.7
ram 2 gb @667mhz 4.5
graphics Geforce Go 7600 4.7
gaming Geforce Go 7600 4.7
hd 2x100gb 5400rpm 4.6

After installing nvidia 100.65

cpu 4.7
ram 4.5
graphics 4.6
gaming 4.6
hd 4.6

and after installing nvidia 158.18

cpu 4.7
ram 4.5
graphics 4.5
gaming 4.2
hd 4.6

Component Details
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.66GHz 5.9
Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB 5.5
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 5.9
Gaming graphics 1534 MB Total available graphics memory 5.9
Primary hard disk 534GB Free (559GB Total) 5.9
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium

Damn you 64-bit edition of vista!!!

i installed Vista simply so i could rate my system, so i could gauge any upgrades to purchase

CPU-AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 2.4GHz (stock) 3.1Ghz (current)-5.7
RAM-2GB SuperTalent DDR2-800 PC6400 Dual Channel-5.8
Desktop-nVidia GeForce 7800GTOC-5.7
Gaming-255MB Total Available Graphics Memory-5.7
Primary Hard Disk-341GB Free (578GB Total)(2 Maxtor 300GBs in raid 0)-5.9

Final Score-5.7

must of been a 32-bit install I take it - the 64-bit edition laughs at 2gbs of ram much less 4... damn my 5.5

CPU: AMD Athlon 64x2 4600 = 4.9
Memory: Legend DDR400 RAM 2gb = 4.2
Graphics: Nvidia 7600GS 512mb = 4.8
Gaming: graphics performance = 4.9
HDD: Samsung 200gb SATA = 5.3

Update after over-clocking & RAM replacement/upgrade........

CPU: AMD Athlon 64x2 4600 2.4ghz o/c @ 2.6ghz = 5.1
Memory: Legend DDR 400 RAM @ 3.5 gb = 5.2
Graphics: Nvidia 7600GS 512mb O/C = 5.3
Gaming: graphics performance = 5.5
HDD: Samsung 200gb = 5.3

Hoping soon to upgrade my GPU with a Nvidia 8600GTS 760mb card for around $399 Oz.

After installing the latest Nvidia drivers, my score went up to 5.0!

Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 5.2

Memory (RAM) 3.50 GB 5.9

Graphics Radeon X1800 Series 5.9

Gaming graphics 1790 MB Total available graphics memory 5.9

Primary hard disk 117GB Free (190GB Total) 5.2 <-- would be a 5.9 if i had the 3gb

Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate

im gonna get a new notebook soon:

i dont now the WIE scores yet but it should be a lot better than my current one.

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specs:

15.4", 1280x800

1 GB DDR2

Intel Pentium Dual Core 2060 (its a Core Duo)

Intel GMA 950

120GB SATA 5400RPM

DVD+/-RW/RAM Drive

I'll update this post later when I get the system.

must of been a 32-bit install I take it - the 64-bit edition laughs at 2gbs of ram much less 4... damn my 5.5

yup, 32-bit.