Vista Performance Rating

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Tom Lake

From what I understand, the Vista Performance Rating is a
number from 1 to 5. My system (3.06GHz P4, 533MHz FSB
4GB DDR2100 Dual Channel RAM, ATI X800 XT AGP graphics
120GB ATA drive C, 500GB ATA drive D)
rates a 3.1 on the scale. Does anyone here have a system that rates a 5?
If so, what's your configuration?

Tom Lake
 
I'm not sure they make computers that would get a rating of 5, especialy
since the overall rating is based on the lowest score you recieved. There
would always be a part that rates low.

Also, I was under the impression that the highest rating was a 10, but I
guess it doesn't matter because nobody's computer is that good anyway. Maybe
in a few years time.
 
The rating you get is based on the lowest score denominator. It is not an
average of anything. Currently my test machine doesn't have a compatible
graphics card - but as Vista doesn't work well on my machine i'm not
planning on upgrading my memeory or graphics card until i get a more stable
vista build - so my performanace rating is actually 1. But that is only
because the business graphics aspect of the performance rating on my machine
is so low. You could try re-assessing the performance rating to see if it
improves. I forget the exact wording but on the performance screen you
should see, on the right of the screen below the performance figures, an
option to re-evaluate the performance. As i say my graphics card came out as
1, but by re-evaluating the performance it pushed it to 1.9 (still extremely
low, i know, but nothing is going to change until things on my pc get
upgraded.)

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My system is only rated a 3.9 (lowest common denominator), but I have
components that are worth more than a 5. I don't think the system is out of
5 or 10. The only way that the thing is worth anything is if the numbers are
out of infinity. The idea isn't to show that you have a perfect 10 computer
it's so that you can run any software that is rated your rating or below. If
it was out of __ then the scale would become worthless within a few years. I
assume in a couple years we'll all be running ranked 11 computers or
something.
 
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