Windows 7 - What's your experience index?

[Hoboclese]

you dont need super duper graphics card to max out that area cos mine said 7.9 in that area

hang on ill bench it now... back in 5

[Hoboclese]

damn me and my big mouth



hangs head in shame

[yaddam205]

i think a descent ssd setup or RAM drive, 4870x2/gtx295 sli or the upcoming gtx350 Nvidia GeForce GTX 350 (Q4 2008) GT300-GPU 55nm PCI-E2.0 2GB GDDR5 512-bit
http://austin.net.au/ProductList/Pro...G/Default.aspx , 6gb 1800mhz ddr3 o.ced, i7 965 o.ced with a good mobo Asus Rampage II Extreme

if that dont break it then what will?

oh btw did you have to do much to get your q9550 to 4ghz? i can only seem to get around 3.8 without lockups

I know what will; the all important 5.25 flux capacitor required for all Windows 7 machines.


4Ghz took little effort actually, once I had a good BIOS it was a cakewalk. What settings do you have on yours now?

[ElMoIsEviL]

if i use compatibility mode on ANYTHING i get a stupid error 0x0000005 in a dialog box, if i try i manually in device manager, update driver, it finds the driver, starts installing it, then says the driver missing?

ok i figured it out, in the driver u d/l from crapative, i went into driver/sbxf/setup.exe it seemed to manually force the install and win7 showed the unsigned driver, clicked yes install and bam. i will try i out when i get back from work crossing fingers i will at least have 2.1 as i like my doof doof.

has anyone got 5.1 to work yet?

also where do u ppl finl ultimate x64 v7000 i could only find x32?

oh and my index rating is 7.3 - 5.5 - 6.5 - 5.9 - 3.0??? my hdd is 3.0? wtf! lol damn these benches

i just cant get over how fast it boots, no more waiting to load crap, its awesome.

5.1 works in games but not CMSS-3D for general music up-mixing. Played CoD4 and 5.1 works flawlessly.

[rickvtv6]

I know what will; the all important 5.25 flux capacitor required for all Windows 7 machines.


4Ghz took little effort actually, once I had a good BIOS it was a cakewalk. What settings do you have on yours now?

go figure my quad sli setup scored 6.5 graphics, 5.9 for gaming? ppfft who needs windows benchmarks ne wayz

5.25 flux capacitor- whats this about?

the best i got was 3.8ghz, could game, occasional lockups though, now i just got it at the bios 5%oc cos i had probs installing vista agian then got hold of win7.
it would be good if my copy didnt have an error whenever used compatibility mode though.

have you played with gtlref voltages to get it there? i done my head in with them and gave up. plus i think i corrupted data through all the lockups a while ago.

[rickvtv6]

5.1 works in games but not CMSS-3D for general music up-mixing. Played CoD4 and 5.1 works flawlessly.

i got it woring but i think my xf-i card has pooed itself, it is sitting between 2 98gx2's that create alot of heat, basically b4 i went to win7 i had vista ult x64, and only about 3 weeks ago when i was playing a game it started making high pitch hissing sounds and popping then the sound would cut out all together then fade in and out especially when there was a loud sound like an explosion in crysis. creative care just gave me the usual bull.

but it works perfect with movies and music, just gaming?? maybe the xddr is crapped?

[rickvtv6]

ok so reinstalling the o.s. didnt do it, have tried both drivers incl .2008

i am considering goin to the asus xonar d2x ultra fidelity 7.1 pcie, that way its away from my vid cards and i will just have to get rid of my pcie tuner and find a good pci tuner card as i only have 1 pcie and 1 pci slot cos of those big brick gx2's (and thats about al they are lol)

so if a one can let me know what the xonar is like feel free.

ok i just discovered something, when in windows and playing music, if i scroll on any page eg IE scrolling up or down a page, it makes the same sound as in games, it crackles at the exact moment i scroll? wtf? then if i do it fast enough it slows the music down then cuts out, then audio resumes at a fast rate as if to catch up then goes back to normal? does anyone know if this is a sound card issue?

[crazy1323]

I am RMA'ing my Motherboard right now so I cannot post a screen shot of my score but I agree with others that the HD benchmark is not the best. I am running a Adaptec 51245 RAID controller (the card alone has a 1.2 GHz Dual core with 512MB of RAM) with three arrays:

1) 4 Seagate 7200.11 1.5TB drives in RAID 5
2) 4 Fujitsu MAX3147RC SAS (147GB 15,000 RPM's) in RAID 0
4) 4 30GB OCZ Core V2 SSD's in RAID 0

With vista installed on the either the SSD or the SAS array I cannot get a score over 6.5 so I do not know what it takes to get a score of 7.9 I have not tried installing on the RAID 5 array so maybe it takes size into account. Also, I installed it on a freshly formatted array both times. The SAS array only had a score of 6.0. Keep in mind this array is capable of 400 MB/sec writes and ~6ms access times

[fadetoblack]

only diffs from specs in sig are that cpu is stock at 3ghz, gpus are at stock and im running win7 x64 public beta off a wd 300gb velociraptor.

[KELL5]

I am RMA'ing my Motherboard right now so I cannot post a screen shot of my score but I agree with others that the HD benchmark is not the best. I am running a Adaptec 51245 RAID controller (the card alone has a 1.2 GHz Dual core with 512MB of RAM) with three arrays:

1) 4 Seagate 7200.11 1.5TB drives in RAID 5
2) 4 Fujitsu MAX3147RC SAS (147GB 15,000 RPM's) in RAID 0
4) 4 30GB OCZ Core V2 SSD's in RAID 0

With vista installed on the either the SSD or the SAS array I cannot get a score over 6.5 so I do not know what it takes to get a score of 7.9 I have not tried installing on the RAID 5 array so maybe it takes size into account. Also, I installed it on a freshly formatted array both times. The SAS array only had a score of 6.0. Keep in mind this array is capable of 400 MB/sec writes and ~6ms access times

A post I saw on another forum.....

I got a 2.9. Googled a bit, came across an explanation. Latency is a huge factor in 7's HD score, so if you have a raid 0, you get dinged if write caching is enabled. Disabled write caching and I scored 5.9.

Promptly re-enabled it though...

perhaps this is correct?

[rickvtv6]

what about one of those ram drives? aren't they supposed to be faster than a ssd? you obviously would be limited to space according to the controller (8gb 2gbx4??) iv'e got the saddest hdd bench here of 3.0, just a single seagate 40ns 1tb 32mb sata 2 spinnin away... so chins up!

i could always hook up a 40gb ata drive then ill be happy cos i got a higher score on my sata2 drive, and if i dont ill go hang myself and use my case for something to stand on instead of a chair. pmproflmfao!

[rickvtv6]

what is write caching? didnt do anything for mine

[DavCor]

My Acer Aspire One.
7 is snappy as balls on this little thing tho.

[rickvtv6]

My Acer Aspire One.
7 is snappy as balls on this little thing tho.

i got a old travelmate 2480 with vista ult x32, 1.8ghz celeron 2gb ddr2 50gb ata (with some bad sectors) it runs a bit sluggish but i will wait till win7 is out of beta before converting this little beast. should be better than what it is now though.

lmao imagine my ratings, would prob be 1.0 across the board!!

[rickvtv6]

has anyone had an issue with the system properties dialog box? mine keeps loading with windows so its open everytime i boot in? it didnt do it after the install though? its not in startup? any ideas?

[ex2cib]

My Acer Aspire One.
7 is snappy as balls on this little thing tho.

thats the first time i've seen the windows aero graphics score worse than the overall graphics score

[Baam]

Only 5.9 with a raptor hard drive.

[rickvtv6]

Only 5.9 with a raptor hard drive.

if thats just a single raptor then thats pretty good considering ppl with raid configs are around the same score, maybe i should get one of those? i never had a raid config but i cant really afford to get several identical drives to do it either so a single raptor sounds good.
are they fairly noisy when spinning up?

i got the same cpu score as u at 2.87ghz?

[Bobsama]

That's on the 80GB hard drive--Western Digital Caviar 80GB (WD800BB)

[rickvtv6]

well thats it.

[KELL5]

well thats it.

yep, I reckon you should treat yourself to a nice new HDD

[NaMcO]

Here's my score with the signature system. RAID0 is made out of 2x WD 640 AAKS and Windows is on a 150GB partition. Rest of the disk is data storage.

[Andrew LB]

My dell XPS m1530 got a 5.2 because of poor memory scores.(ddr2-800). The top score was my G.Skill SSD which was @ 6.4. Not too shabby for a notebook.

[Warboy]

[rickvtv6]

yep, I reckon you should treat yourself to a nice new HDD

i just checked the price on the 300gb raptor, they are about $450 aussie bucks here! and $350 for the 150gb, thats an expensive small hdd, i would have to use my other drive for media as ive used over 300gb on my 1tb. would be nice though as its the slowest part in any system (especially mine!lol)

i just got my new pci hd tuner, and will be getting the asus d2x next week