Vista Experience Index 1

[Kofy]

Hi room, new to the Vista thread but I have a question regarding the "Vista Experience Index" What I want to know is as follows. What is considered a "good" score" whats a bad score and where does mine fall within these scores? Also, what can be done to improve them if I need to?
Mine is listed below:
Overall: 5.1
Processor: 5.3
Memory: 5.9
Graphics: 5.9
Gaming Graphics: 5.8
Primary Hard Disk: 5.1

 

[xit]

your scores are actually very good and indicate you can run all aspects of Vista. What version of Vista are you running?

xit

 

[Kofy]

xit I'm running Vista Ultimate on this system (scratch built) Appreciate the response to this. I just want to know what if anything besides a newer HD would help.

 

[xit]

According to Vista guidelines if you achive a score of 4 or above you can use all function in Vista Ultimate. Sure you may achive a higher score but you gain little in the way of performance as you are already at the top. You have a very good system to get these high marks, just enjoy Vista.

xit

 

[linney]

We are all jealous, go away and leave us slowcoaches alone!

5.0 – 5.9
Fast moving games with amazingly rich graphics, 3D modeling, high-end multimedia and high performance applications.
Top end of the PC market for the Vista time frame.


Windows Experience Index: An In-Depth Look

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/pages/458117.aspx

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=170

 

[LeeMcCauslin]

May we ask what parts you used in building this rocket ship PC of yours? ;-) (And how you like them so far...)

 

[Kofy]

Sure, the list is as follows:
Case: Lian Li
Power supply: Ultra Xconnect 600w
Mobo: Asus P5N-E SLI
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
Memory: 2 GB Kingston Value Ram KVR800D2N5K2/2G
Video Card : Sapphire Radeon X1950GT 512MB
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate
Monitor: Dell 2007WFP 20 inch wide flat panel LCD
HDs: Maxtor 80GB IDE C drive, Maxtor 100 GB IDE,Seagate 300GB Sata 1.5MBS, Seagate 500GB Sata 3 MBPS
I also have installed a Firewire 800 card with 2 800 ports, 2 400 ports, plus a front panel media tray, and also the 500GB SATA is in a Vantec removeable tray.

 

[Kofy]

As for liking it? I Love mine.. just built a near duplicate for a friend.. except her's has Core 2 Duo E6850 and Corsair memory instead.. plus no Firewire 800... Thanks for all the responses.

 

[Crowley16]

you could dump a few more $ into your graphics card and get a 8800GTX with 768MB of ram

and raid your system hdd

that's if you really have more money than you know what to do with...

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Procrastinate Now!

 

[Kofy]

Sadly, I dont have the $$$, and dont care about high end gaming, I AM thinking seriously about the raid setup though, but thats going to require $400 that I dont have at the moment.

 

[firewolfrl]

LOL...I have an index of 5.0
I am slowed by a slower processor and a WD SATA 500 gig drive. or than that I don't think I could tell the difference other than replace the processor. it's nice to place the games that play in directx 10 that also work with an Xbox 360. speaking of, Xbox 360 controllers all work with the new games out there with windows...

it's kinda nice to have a post with no issues or complaints

 

[Crowley16]

raid costs $400?

surely not, most new mobos will support native raid 1,0 so all you need is 2 hard drives...


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Procrastinate Now!

 

[Kofy]

Crowley, its not the Raid... thats a feature built into the motherboard I have.. its the cost of 2 750GB seagate SATA drives I'd be using for sata

 

[Crowley16]

I wouldn't recommend that...

striped is non-redundant so I wouldn't store any data on there, I'd use another hdd to store data, and only use the raid as the o/s + programs which means you can get aways with very cheap 80gb drives...

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Procrastinate Now!

 

[Kofy]

Crowley, thanks for the advice, but as I say, its a moot point currently as I dont have the $$ for even a lowball 80GB drive much less 2 of them.