Windows Experience Index of 5.9? | The Coffeehouse

dentaku

I never really cared about the Windows Experience Index but today I ran it and got a 5.5. My video card gets a 5.9 and I see that 5.9 is the highest you can get (why not 6.0?)

Anyway, does anyone here have an overall score of 5.9?
Does any machine rate that high yet?

littleguru
<3 Seattle

I get also 5.9 for Aero. It's easy to get that. My notebook is over 2 years old. My overal rating is 4.0 because the CPU is slower... not the core architecture.

dentaku

Ya, one part can bring the whole score down.
I have an E6700 so I get a 5.5 for processor.

the-laughing-man

Processor - 5.3
RAM- 5.5
Graphics - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.9
Primary Hard Drive - 5.9

Is it wrong that I want to upgrade my RAM and Processor? Embarassed

dentaku

Since you started it Big Smile

Processor - 5.5
RAM- 5.5
Graphics - 5.9
Gaming Graphics - 5.9
Primary Hard Drive - 5.7

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

I have 5.9 in everything but CPU, which is 5.5 (an E6750)

Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.

the-laughing-man and dentaku, you have identical scores, yes?

the-laughing-man

I doubt that, he has an E6750 and I'm on an E6600, and my lowest is 5.3!

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

dentaku wrote:
My video card gets a 5.9 and I see that 5.9 is the highest you can get (why not 6.0?)

Why not 7.0? Tongue Out

They have to draw the line somewhere until they rate newer hardware.

the-laughing-man

Just out of interest, DCMonkey, how much RAM do you have?

Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.

Yes but where you gain in Primary Disk he gains in CPU, and it all balances out, if you're with me.

I'm still thinking theres a conspiracy where nothing is good enough and you keep going out to buy more and more stuff trying to get 5.9 Smiley

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

dentaku wrote:
why not 6.0?

Did you flawlessly executed a triple lutz? Technically not required, but practically impossible to get a 6.0 without one.

the-laughing-man

That's not quite how it works from what I understood, Lloyd, it's just the lowest link in the chain is your score.

So he'd have 5.5 and because my lowest is 5.3 my score is 5.3, it doesn't really average out.

Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.

Confused.

That's a really rubbish scoring system.

the-laughing-man

Well not really, if you have a relatively crap CPU and an amazing graphics card then it doesn't mean you'll be able to run every game perfectly does it?

Crysis on an E4300 CPU with a 8800GTX Graphics Card would be rather painful so your worst part is gonna slow you down the most.

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

the-laughing-man wrote:
Just out of interest, DCMonkey, how much RAM do you have?

2GB of DDR2 on a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

Lloyd_Humph wrote:
That's a really rubbish scoring system.

Not really. This isn't test scores. A PC's overall performance tends to be dominated by the slowest component. The Windows Experience Index reflects that.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

DCMonkey wrote:

the-laughing-man wrote: Just out of interest, DCMonkey, how much RAM do you have?

2GB of DDR2 on a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R

Brand, clock speed and timings please. Smiley

the-laughing-man

I'm on Corsair XMS2 800Mhz CAS4 and I still only get 5.5 Sad

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

Sven Groot wrote:

DCMonkey wrote:

the-laughing-man wrote: Just out of interest, DCMonkey, how much RAM do you have?

2GB of DDR2 on a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R

Brand, clock speed and timings please.

Corsair, 800MHz, don't remember anything else off the top of my head. Will check later. Smiley

And for completeness, video is a PNY nVidia 8800 GTS and primary HD is a 160GB WD Raptor (with a WD 750GB 2ndary drive).

No OCing.

And my Antec P182B case should get at least a 5.9 for style. Smiley

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

the-laughing-man wrote:
I'm on Corsair XMS2 800Mhz CAS4 and I still only get 5.5

I'm on DDR2-666 CL5 and get a 5.0, which is the lowest score. I've considered replacing it, but I figure it won't help much without also getting a new CPU (which currently scores a 5.2, the second lowest in the system) but I can't really do that without getting a new motherboard (I have a Core 2 Duo E6400 and the highest my mobo will go is an E6700)... You see where this is going. Sad

kidzi

I have 5.9 in everything but Memory, and that is a 5.8.

2 Gigs of DDR3 memory, NVidia 8800, Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.66 ghz

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

Sven Groot wrote:

Brand, clock speed and timings please.

2GB of Corsair XMS2 DDR2 (Twin2X2048-6400C4) memory. I have my BIOS Memory timing settings on Auto, so I assume I'm running at the default 5-5-5-18 instead of the tested 4-4-4-12, and it's running at 800MHz.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

I wonder what kind of WEI scores the new 8800GT gets. It should be faster than the 8800GTS, so..

I wish hardware manufacturers would actually list these things. Not that it'd be extremely useful (at least not until game publishers start listing minimum and recommended WEI numbers on their games as well), but still. It'd help when shopping.

dentaku

DCMonkey wrote:
And my Antec P182B case should get at least a 5.9 for style.

I've got the gunmetal grey P182B too but the Seasonic 650W PSU is what would make it a better "experience" because it helps keep it very quiet. My system was built to keep the noise down.