What is Your Windows Experience Index? (Vista)

Mjoelnir · July 6th, 2008, 02:48 PM

Update after a little bit of tuning:

SPEEDIE · July 10th, 2008, 03:23 AM

vna · July 15th, 2008, 11:58 AM

Hi!

My RAM gets only 4.8 and seeing your scores I don't know why is it so low. I have Kingmax 2x2GB DDR2 800 sticks @ 5-5-5-18

This means nothing or I should be a bit worried?

Unixlord · July 15th, 2008, 05:48 PM

Yes you should be worried. You should be worried that you're using this trash OS and you should be worried that you give the experience index a second glance.

Dyre Straits · July 15th, 2008, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by vna

Hi!

My RAM gets only 4.8 and seeing your scores I don't know why is it so low. I have Kingmax 2x2GB DDR2 800 sticks @ 5-5-5-18

This means nothing or I should be a bit worried?

Can you not manually set that RAM to 4-4-4-12? You 'might' have to bump up the voltage a very little bit, but, I can't imagine it wouldn't work at those settings unless it's the cheapest of the Kingston RAM modules.

Also, if you can get it to work at the lower settings, see if you can also get it to run at 1T instead of 2T. I'm almost sure it's at 2T now.

Good luck!

vna · July 16th, 2008, 12:23 AM

Thanks for the gr8 answer Unixlord, if my PC wouldn't have ran fine for 6 months with Vista I would choose another OS, but I have no reason to do so. I was just asking a simple question because I'm not absolutely sure if my RAM gives 100%.

According to everest my modules support 4-4-4-12 @ 533

and yes it was as cheap as it could get ($80-90 for the 2 sticks).

I've made a ~6 hour test with memtest and it ran the tests 8 times and it showed 6 errors. I've set the Address Range to test the whole memory, I don't know if this changes anything but it's not the default setting.
All the errors are the same except for the mem address: Good: 00000004; Bad: 40000004; Err-bits: 00000004. The address is usually around 1GB and above 3GB.
I will test the sticks one by one and I hope that it's not the motherboard. I would hate to remove it.
Honestly it's pretty hard to setup the BIOS properly, so it won't cause any booting/restarting issues but I could do it once (goddamn crashfree bios lost settings a week ago).

Thanks for reading!

IModIntel · July 18th, 2008, 03:21 AM

Is it true that the max you can get is 5.9?

Dyre Straits · July 18th, 2008, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by IModIntel

Is it true that the max you can get is 5.9?

Yes, 5.9 is considered the perfect score. But, don't ask me why.

HaZe303 · July 18th, 2008, 09:59 AM

5.9, too lazy to upload pics. If you guys want 5.9 on harddrive, youre best bet is raid0. Or some of the newer harddrives with 32mb cache. My Seagate 7.200.11 500gb 32mb cache also gives 5.9.