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Title: Windows Experience
Post by: R32UK on 25 February 2012, 23:29
Not sure how good or accurate this is..

Processor - 7.1
RAM - 7.5
Graphics - 6.4
Gaming - 6.4
Hard Disk - 7.6

Reason I ask is i noticed a fault through device manger for my graphics card nvdia GT520M (?) so installed the drivers direct from nvidia. Then ran the windows experience again and the 2 Graphics figures came down to 5.4!!  :undecided:

Went back to the windows drivers and they went up to the figures above.... just wondering how relevant this all is in real world terms??
Title: Re: Windows Experience
Post by: golf-sib on 25 February 2012, 23:34
Thought the benchmarks change all the time as new hardware appears the benchmark is altered via internet connection to the windows experience server?

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The scores currently range from 1.0 to 7.9. The Windows Experience Index is designed to accommodate advances in computer technology. As hardware speed and performance improve, higher score ranges will be enabled. The standards for each level of the index generally stay the same. However, in some cases, new tests might be developed that can result in lower scores.
Title: Re: Windows Experience
Post by: clipperjay on 25 February 2012, 23:34
Try using sisandra its a good bencher!
Can't tell from one set of results fella!
Need something to gauge or compare base score?
Never used windows experience, but guessing its a perfromance index when you upgrade hardware?
EDIT:
Try running the new drivers in safe mode then bench it again!
Title: Re: Windows Experience
Post by: Jay on 26 February 2012, 09:46
Different drivers can effect the performance, the Dell drivers *should* be the best ones and might have been the ones Windows automatically reinstalled, bringing the rating back up.
Title: Re: Windows Experience
Post by: R32UK on 26 February 2012, 13:31
Different drivers can effect the performance, the Dell drivers *should* be the best ones and might have been the ones Windows automatically reinstalled, bringing the rating back up.

yes it appears so... although sometimes you dont know if you should believe MS. Making the rating better just because its their drivers would be pretty bad form, although I cant see any clear advantages to be gained  :undecided:

you would think the device makers would offer the best drivers
Title: Re: Windows Experience
Post by: Jay on 26 February 2012, 16:24
The drivers that reinstalled may be the Dell drivers, though it's hard to tell because in the driver info it won't tell you it's the Dell version.
Title: Re: Windows Experience
Post by: justalex81 on 26 February 2012, 22:34
windows experience is bollox. i've got a 2500k quad core running at 4.4ghz and it only scores 7.5!!!
Title: Re: Windows Experience
Post by: golf-sib on 26 February 2012, 22:37
windows experience is bollox. i've got a 2500k quad core running at 4.4ghz and it only scores 7.5!!!

Thought 7.5 is as high as it goes as the scale is 0-7.5?
Title: Re: Windows Experience
Post by: R32UK on 27 February 2012, 00:31
windows experience is bollox. i've got a 2500k quad core running at 4.4ghz and it only scores 7.5!!!

Thought 7.5 is as high as it goes as the scale is 0-7.5?

think its currently 7.9 although it goes up as equipment improves. The score is based on the lowest perfoming part
Title: Re: Windows Experience
Post by: justalex81 on 27 February 2012, 10:09
yeah up to 7.9. it amuses me that the lowest performing part in my pc is the processor!
Title: Re: Windows Experience
Post by: Ridg on 27 February 2012, 10:23
in terms of benchmarks it's pretty naff although;

7.6
7.7
7.9
7.9
7.9

 :laugh:
Title: Re: Windows Experience
Post by: justalex81 on 27 February 2012, 11:25
in terms of benchmarks it's pretty naff although;

7.6
7.7
7.9
7.9
7.9

 :laugh:

what you got?
Title: Re: Windows Experience
Post by: Ridg on 27 February 2012, 11:36
in terms of benchmarks it's pretty naff although;

7.6
7.7
7.9
7.9
7.9

 :laugh:

what you got?


i7 930 @ 3.6Ghz
12 GB RAM (3*4GB @ 1600Mhz CL9)
2 * 460GTX in SLI
120GB SSD
Caviar black for user folder and RAID 0 for Games / Video editing.
Title: Re: Windows Experience
Post by: R32UK on 27 February 2012, 12:08
Which part is the 7.6??

Mine is only a laptop so quite happy with the figures.... only thing slowing it down seems to be the Graphics Card  :undecided:
Title: Re: Windows Experience
Post by: Ridg on 27 February 2012, 12:58
Which part is the 7.6??

Mine is only a laptop so quite happy with the figures.... only thing slowing it down seems to be the Graphics Card  :undecided:

Processor

the scores break down as:

Processor,
RAM,
Desktop graphics,
Gaming graphics,
HDD

the experience score as a benchmark is definitely a waste of time as graphics, HDD and RAM can all go past 7.9 e.g. a SATA2 SDD can score 7.9 leaving no room for the faster SATA3 drives.