Windows Experience

[R32UK]

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!! 

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??

[golf-sib]

Thought the benchmarks change all the time as new hardware appears the benchmark is altered via internet connection to the windows experience server?

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.

[clipperjay]

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!

[Jay]

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.

[R32UK]

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 

you would think the device makers would offer the best drivers

[Jay]

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.

[justalex81]

windows experience is bollox. i've got a 2500k quad core running at 4.4ghz and it only scores 7.5!!!

[golf-sib]

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?

[R32UK]

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

[justalex81]

yeah up to 7.9. it amuses me that the lowest performing part in my pc is the processor!