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Denny
What is this?? and what do the numbers mean?? what is good? not so good?..
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Andyistic
There's a link on that Computer Info page that explains what the numbers
mean.
They are a rating of how adequate your hardware is.
The very best score for a category is 5.9 (6 and up is reserved for future
improvements).
The overall score is the LOWEST of all the category scores (also known as
subscores).
The purpose is to show you where the performance bottleneck is and what
hardware you need to upgrade to get better overall performance.
None of my subscores are below 5.5, with video being at 5.9 (max).
-- Andy
mean.
They are a rating of how adequate your hardware is.
The very best score for a category is 5.9 (6 and up is reserved for future
improvements).
The overall score is the LOWEST of all the category scores (also known as
subscores).
The purpose is to show you where the performance bottleneck is and what
hardware you need to upgrade to get better overall performance.
None of my subscores are below 5.5, with video being at 5.9 (max).
-- Andy
S
Scott
None of my subscores are below 5.5, with video being at 5.9 (max).
New PC eh?
My highest is 5.9 (Graphics - which doesn't make any sense as far as
I'm concerned). [1]
My Lowest is 4.1 ( my CPU) [2]
[1] NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT - 256 MB RAM
[2] AMD Athlon 64 3500+
--
Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com
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Brian Bradley
Denny,
I've used all betas of most versions of Vista on at least five different
machines. All but one of the machines were very ordinary Pentium-4 family
PC's, none of them having more than 128 MB of video RAM, and many of them
with built in (shared) RAM of only 64 MB. System RAM ranged from 512 MB to
1.5 GB. Machine quality ranged from a bottom-shelf brnad like "GQ" (Fry's)
to used Dells to used Compaqs and one used ThinkPad.
The Experience Indexes were predictably low -- none of them higher than 2.0.
But guess what? With Vista Release Candidate 2 (RC-2), ALL of those machines
ran well, and most of them ran VERY WELL. Not all of them supported the
Transparency and/or 3D effects, of course.
When Vista was new to me, I intently watched the Experience Index as I made
hardware changes. For a little while I was hell bent on maxing it out on
each machine I was testung. I quickly discovered that although the
Experience Index is interesting and probably serves some users well, it
doesn't mean much to me. If a sytem ran as good as I needed, I did'nt really
care what the numbers were.
Brian
Still Loving Vista RC2 in San Diego
But Looking Forward to My Express Upgrade
Compaq C301nr Notebook (New December 2006)
Celeron M 430 (1.67 GHz), 512 MB RAM
128 MB Onboard (Shared) Video RAM
DVD-RW-RAM Drive
$399 Day-After-Christmas Doorbuster at Fry's ($599 Retail)
Works GREAT! Beautiful Graphics, with All Aero Effects
(Added 1 GB RAM, Updated BIOS)
I've used all betas of most versions of Vista on at least five different
machines. All but one of the machines were very ordinary Pentium-4 family
PC's, none of them having more than 128 MB of video RAM, and many of them
with built in (shared) RAM of only 64 MB. System RAM ranged from 512 MB to
1.5 GB. Machine quality ranged from a bottom-shelf brnad like "GQ" (Fry's)
to used Dells to used Compaqs and one used ThinkPad.
The Experience Indexes were predictably low -- none of them higher than 2.0.
But guess what? With Vista Release Candidate 2 (RC-2), ALL of those machines
ran well, and most of them ran VERY WELL. Not all of them supported the
Transparency and/or 3D effects, of course.
When Vista was new to me, I intently watched the Experience Index as I made
hardware changes. For a little while I was hell bent on maxing it out on
each machine I was testung. I quickly discovered that although the
Experience Index is interesting and probably serves some users well, it
doesn't mean much to me. If a sytem ran as good as I needed, I did'nt really
care what the numbers were.
Brian
Still Loving Vista RC2 in San Diego
But Looking Forward to My Express Upgrade
Compaq C301nr Notebook (New December 2006)
Celeron M 430 (1.67 GHz), 512 MB RAM
128 MB Onboard (Shared) Video RAM
DVD-RW-RAM Drive
$399 Day-After-Christmas Doorbuster at Fry's ($599 Retail)
Works GREAT! Beautiful Graphics, with All Aero Effects
(Added 1 GB RAM, Updated BIOS)