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What is the highest Performance rating? My system has a average of 5 and the
help says anything can run on a 3 and serious multimedia editing may take a
4. I have high 5's except for my 256mb video card which it rates at 5.1 and
19gb free space which I get a 5. on. Everything else is 5.5+.
 
Sam said:
What is the highest Performance rating? My system has a average of 5 and the
help says anything can run on a 3 and serious multimedia editing may take a
4. I have high 5's except for my 256mb video card which it rates at 5.1 and
19gb free space which I get a 5. on. Everything else is 5.5+.
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The ratings don't seem to mean a lot - 1GB of RAM gets a 1.9 (I'd hate
to think how much you'd need for a 5!), Even an Athlon XP 3200 - which
is no slouch - only gets 1.7 (haven't run vista on any of my main dev
machines yet but I doubt even they'd get 5 and they're dual processor
machines with a couple of gig each).

So if you have a 5 your machine is pretty damned good...

Tony
 
Tony said:
The ratings don't seem to mean a lot - 1GB of RAM gets a 1.9 (I'd hate
to think how much you'd need for a 5!),
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*My* 1 GB of RAM gets 4.5 - very strange, indeed...
Even an Athlon XP 3200 - which
is no slouch - only gets 1.7 ...
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....whereas my P4 2.4C gets 3.2 - what's wrong?


Roy
 
Roy said:
*My* 1 GB of RAM gets 4.5 - very strange, indeed...
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That *is* odd..
...whereas my P4 2.4C gets 3.2 - what's wrong?
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I could start a nasty Intel vs. AMD conspiracy theory at this point :)

I guess the real answer is it's beta, so isn't tuned properly yet.

Tony
 
Tony said:
That *is* odd..

I could start a nasty Intel vs. AMD conspiracy theory at this point :)
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You might do so... and I would report that my Sempron 64 2800+ 1.6 GHz
in another PC got a Vista performance sub-rating of 3.3 - so what;-?
I guess the real answer is it's beta, so isn't tuned properly yet.
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So do I.

Roy <looking forward to RC1>
 
Not tuned correctly, just might be an understatement. My P4 is rated at a 4.6
and 1Gb of DDR2 memory has a rating of 4.2. Everything else has a rating of
between 3.6 and 3.9, but my computer only gets a rating of 3.
 
3 is very good.
Your numbers do not seem inconsistent with a 3.
As I said in a previous post, since the components have a scale greater
than 5, direct correlation is not
possible.
Remember, the computer can be rated from 1 to 5.
The components go higher than 5 so a numerical average of the components may
not come to the correct number.
That could only be expected if the components maximum was also 5, but it
isn't.
 
I just found out, today, that the rating is based on the lowest scoring
component...go figure.
 
It is the weakest link theory. What good does a fast engine do if the tires
are flat?
 
rich066 said:
I just found out, today, that the rating is based on the lowest scoring
component...go figure.
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Makes sense to me. If you put a 500hp engine on a bicycle, you'll still be
limited by the tires
 
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