Vista Experience Index Scores- Post Yours!

Hey i know not everyone has gone over to Vista yet, and many of you who have, like myself, are dual booting. The Windows Experience Index Score is supposedly a benchmark for what software your machine can run, etc... but I thought it would be fun to see how much our systems blew away the scores. The best score you can get is 5.9, with 5 being the best available when it was developed.

List your Operating system, and 32 or 64 bit

Then list:

Processor Score
RAM score
Graphics
Gaming Graphics
Primary Hard Disk

Your "base" score is the lowest of these so no need to list it.

My system is:

Windows Vista Ultimate, 64 bit

Processor- 5.8
RAM- 5.9
Graphics- 5.9
Gaming Graphics- 5.8
Primary Hard Disk-5.4

if only I had kept the RAID setup- but just changed mobos so that would have been a pain anyways.

I'm also pretty sure that an 8800 would get a 7.5 if it existed lol

nice 32 or 64 bit os? I saw in your sig about the x-fi drivers- and creative seems to be re-releasing them on a daily basis- and i have the 64 bit ones but they work fine- except for the mic lol doesnt work in vista at all

haha, almost as good... and well you know amd systems with ddr perform about as good as them with ddr2 bc of that integrated memory controller- thats all i can think of lol. So what kinda super pi 1m and 2m times do you get with that OC'd opty?

i remember in late '05 when i got this notebook im on now it has a 4000+ mobile, 36 seconds was pretty gangsta for 1m... Now my desktop does 2m in just over 44, 1m under 18

Vista Ultimate

Processor Score-- 5.6
RAM score-- 5.9
Graphics-- 5.9
Gaming Graphics-- 5.9
Primary Hard Disk-- 5.9

My system is

P5N32-E SLI Plus
E6600 with Zalman 9700 cooling
3gb G.skill
wd raptor 150gb
wd 320gb
OCZ Gamestream 700w
Thermaltake armour
8800GTX

haha thats what i was thinking- what does it take to get a 5.9 on cpu? Maybe at core 2 @5ghz? lol, seriously it would be interesting to know what speed on the core 2s break what seems to be the 5.8 barrier lol. My 3.2 conroe doesnt cut it. I say core 2 b/c unfortunately I dont expect any amd overclock to break it. I work at best buy and out of our systems at work i saw one with a 5.9 on ram and i was like wtf so i ran cpu-z and it has pc 4200 (533mhz) ram and the only thing that i could think of was that this was testament to the 266:266 aka 1:1 advantage.

I think the extreme ranges in scores (regardless of actual performance) tells us all what we already knew, these scores are worthless.

Yes, it shows mine at like 1.5GB, lol! Very weird. Not sure if it is supposed to be that way, either.

Hmm...I'm not sure about the second part. However, I have noticed that by running the test again, I gained .1. I'll update this post with 'official' score.

Ultimate 64-bit

Base Score: 5.7

Processor: 5.8
Memory: 5.9
Graphics: 5.9
Gaming Graphics: 5.9
Primary Hard Disk: 5.7

Specs:

E6600 @ 3.5GHz
2GB DDR2-770 (5-5-5-15)
8800GTS @ Slightly over stock
Seagate 320GB

I'm fairly certain you need an OC'd quad-core to get 5.9...They need to scale it again, I think. How can my memory be 5.9? I know people with 4GB at 1GHz+ and yet I'm sure they'd get a 5.9, as well.

Is it possible to score 6.0?

~Ibrahim~

None taken. I was thinking about the Raptor, but it was too much. I might get an stripped array of the 320GB...I certainly don't need it. Probably not.

Yeah, WTF. I don't know how that E.I. thing works, but I expected at least a 5.8...They don't make them this fast, lol! Exactly, a 1-10 scale would work better. Agreed.

~Ibrahim~

Hehe, maybe. Or does it need a quad-core?

~Ibrahim~

Do tell.

Why is your HD score so much lower than mine (.3)? I have a 320GB, 7200RPM drive. Did you test during idle?

~Ibrahim~

Maybe, I'm not sure. If you go into the hard drive settings in Device Manager, it has some performance settings in there.

~Ibrahim~

That extra cache may give you another .1, but not enough for .3...

~Ibrahim~

He only says...

Most any 320G HDs are 7200 rpm and several REALLY suck. Is it a 7200.8, 7200.9, or 7200.10 seagate? maxtor?... 2M, 8M, 16M cache? lots of possibilities...

You're right. I have the Seagate 7200.10 320GB w/ 16MB of cache. I assumed it was either WD or Seagate. I could be totally wrong, however. It could even be IDE. He does mention, however, that the base system was a Gateway. Could that mean Hitachi or Samsung, possibly?

~Ibrahim~

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/pro [...] riveid=198

That's my hard drive, as pulled by Everest Home.


Joke,

Catalyst 7.2. I'll pull 7.4 and see what it does. Might explain why Mythos was working so slowly.




Edit:

Installed the latest ATI driver, no change in score. However, Vista did think I had a new piece of hardware, and I did get a .1 boost out of my memory.

I've been thinking about the hard drive difference, and it could be explained by lower cache, and lack of native command queueing and lack of S.M.A.R.T. .3 taken off would make sense if that were the case.

The first paragraph, lack of NCQ doing my hard drive in, I agree with. The second part, not so much.

Ultimate 64-bit

Base Score: 5.8

Processor: 5.8
Memory: 5.8
Graphics: 5.9
Gaming Graphics: 5.9
Primary Hard Disk: 5.9

3D Mark 06 :- 9981

Perhaps you don't read as much as I originally guessed. This has been on the home-page of tomshardware.com for the last 7 days. If you can read, you should be able to answer your own concerns (and don't feel that you need to reply, I read the entire article and don't want a debate).

Vista: Benchmarking or Benchmarketing?

how do you guys determine these scores?

ok my Vista experience index: 3.1

Processor: 4.3
RAM: 4.5
Graphics: 3.6
Gaming graphics: 3.1
Primary Hard disk: 5.3

I have the old single core 3.2GHz. I have the lowest score among you guys.

im running windows 7 ultimate 64bit
Cpu 6.1
Ram 7.2
Earo 5.9
gaming graphics 5.9
hdd 5.9

its a Phenomx3 oc from 2.1 to 2.33g stock fan
4g ram 800 mhz oc to 900mhz
2x ati radeon 4670 gpu's 1g each (in crossfire mode )
high output case fans 6 all up

have just ordered 4x 1066 mhx ram totaling 8g
and Amdx4 2.8 black edition Cpu
2x 4870 1g gpu's
will post new scores when they arrive