Windows 7 - What's your experience index?

[ewitte]

Lol my memory score went up a lot just going from 4GB to 8GB with the same settings

CPU - 7.5
Mem - 7.5
Graphics - 7.9
Gaming - 6.0
Primary HDD - 6.8

Current hardware nowhere near tweaked yet
Q9550 @ 3.8Ghz
8GB 448 * 2 CAS5
BFG GTX 285 OC @ OCX settings
2 * GSkill SSD 64GB Motherboard Raid0

[Firestrider]

Lol my memory score went up a lot just going from 4GB to 8GB with the same settings

CPU - 7.5
Mem - 7.5
Graphics - 7.9
Gaming - 6.0
Primary HDD - 6.8

Current hardware nowhere near tweaked yet
Q9550 @ 3.8Ghz
8GB 448 * 2 CAS5
BFG GTX 285 OC @ GTX settings
2 * GSkill SSD 64GB Motherboard Raid0

Are you using the WDDM 1.1 graphics driver? I think the score is limited to 6.0 if you don't. Also can you post your metrics?

[Shocker003]

Does someone know how to get the Creative X-FI Extreme Audio pci-e, to function normal, in Windows 7 64bit. Am at wits end trying to figure it out and i can´t get ati 8.12 driver to uninstall.
My system is AMD 4400+EE, Asus 780g HDMI and 2Gb OCZ crossfire ram. It´s my mediacenter pc and am using onboard graphics. Any help will be highly welcomed and thanks in advance.

I can´t get any of my sound cards features, it´s console has only the mixer on it and the others are missing.

[ewitte]

Are you using the WDDM 1.1 graphics driver? I think the score is limited to 6.0 if you don't. Also can you post your metrics?

I'll check on there all I know is 181.22.

EDIT Nvidia says to get the Windows 7 drivers from windows update. I installed the newest Vista x64 drivers. My guess is that it is running a WDDM 1.0 driver. Wondered why it wasn't any faster with the new card

[Martijn]

I'll check on there all I know is 181.22.

EDIT Nvidia says to get the Windows 7 drivers from windows update. I installed the newest Vista x64 drivers. My guess is that it is running a WDDM 1.0 driver. Wondered why it wasn't any faster with the new card

I have got 181.22 here as well, but my GTX280 gets 6.5 points. Surely a 285 should be better right?

[Richard Dower]

OK, this is weird...when i ran my experience index i got 7.3 on the memory, then i installed my X-Fi drivers...and the score dropped to 5.5??....like, what the hell?

[ewitte]

I have got 181.22 here as well, but my GTX280 gets 6.5 points. Surely a 285 should be better right?

The whole test is screwy. I got 6.0 as well with the 8800GTX. Its been formatted several times this week so its not lingering drivers. FPS in games and 3dmark are correct. Not to mention the huge jump in the memory score with the same settings and 8GB vs 4GB.

[KELL5]

think like this....

Say I had 2GB of DDR2-800 and was marked accordingly.

Now, say I go buy 2x 128MB dimms of custom made DDR2-1200 then I use LN2 to cool the sticks and force them to DDR2-1800 with timings of 4,4,4,1,1t in dual channel mode.

Do you now think vista will score me 7.9 on memory simply because my memory is super duper fast?

Ofcourse not, apperature has to play a role. Speed is not the only factor.

[rickvtv6]

think like this....

Say I had 2GB of DDR2-800 and was marked accordingly.

Now, say I go buy 2x 128MB dimms of custom made DDR2-1200 then I use LN2 to cool the sticks and force them to DDR2-1800 with timings of 4,4,4,1,1t in dual channel mode.

Do you now think vista will score me 7.9 on memory simply because my memory is super duper fast?

Ofcourse not, apperature has to play a role. Speed is not the only factor.

ill let you take over, its your turn to start repeating. lmao

[rickvtv6]

Does someone know how to get the Creative X-FI Extreme Audio pci-e, to function normal, in Windows 7 64bit. Am at wits end trying to figure it out and i can´t get ati 8.12 driver to uninstall.
My system is AMD 4400+EE, Asus 780g HDMI and 2Gb OCZ crossfire ram. It´s my mediacenter pc and am using onboard graphics. Any help will be highly welcomed and thanks in advance.

I can´t get any of my sound cards features, it´s console has only the mixer on it and the others are missing.

have you got the latest driver to install correctly? i got rid of my xfi platinum last week cos it keeps playing up, i think its the sound processor or the xram but creative support are convinced they dont have issues, pppffft now im just waiting on my asus d2x to come in!
i did get the console and drivers working in 32bit though so i might just be able to help you out if you havnt already figured?

[HuffPCair]

Ok so I am debating on switching all the way over to win 7 from Vista. So I am going to ask you guys what you think. Should I now or just wait for final release???

[ewitte]

Logmein doesn't work
IE8 is crap

I had at least 1 more issue but can't remember what it is off the top of my head. On the plus side its extremely fast but I switched over to SSD at the same time and never ran Vista on them so its hard to tell.

[HuffPCair]

Well I dont use IE and or Logmein hell I dont even know what that is lol.

But I just cant decide if I should go fully over to it or not I took it off my computer dual booting cause it was on a crap HDD. So just having a hard time since I havent messed with it much

[KoolDrew]

Here's mine running x64.

[clokker]

Q9550 @ 3.75GHz/1.275v

4 x 2GB G.Skill DDR2 PC1000

Gigabyte GA-P45-UD3R

3 x 250 Seatgate SATA2 in RAID0/ 2 x 1TB Seagate SATA2

eVGA 8800GT.

[rickvtv6]

Well I dont use IE and or Logmein hell I dont even know what that is lol.

But I just cant decide if I should go fully over to it or not I took it off my computer dual booting cause it was on a crap HDD. So just having a hard time since I havent messed with it much

Just wait on the final release, ive had minor probs though i cant remember what they were.

Just imagine the eye candy of vista but better then the speed of xp but better, combine the two brilliants : a whoopie of a o.s.

[Shocker003]

have you got the latest driver to install correctly? i got rid of my xfi platinum last week cos it keeps playing up, i think its the sound processor or the xram but creative support are convinced they dont have issues, pppffft now im just waiting on my asus d2x to come in!
i did get the console and drivers working in 32bit though so i might just be able to help you out if you havnt already figured?

Thanks for the advice, am downloading the 32bit version now. I will still hang on to my creative cards for the time being.

[dan7777]

anyone answer me this ive got 8GB ram and only score 5.6 ? thnx in advance

[HuffPCair]

anyone answer me this ive got 8GB ram and only score 5.6 ? thnx in advance

Where you doing anything else when you did the experience thing?

[ewitte]

think like this....

Say I had 2GB of DDR2-800 and was marked accordingly.

Now, say I go buy 2x 128MB dimms of custom made DDR2-1200 then I use LN2 to cool the sticks and force them to DDR2-1800 with timings of 4,4,4,1,1t in dual channel mode.

Do you now think vista will score me 7.9 on memory simply because my memory is super duper fast?

Ofcourse not, apperature has to play a role. Speed is not the only factor.

Isn't the test benchmarking the speed? Why would size have anything to do with it besides in you example tons of paging because of only 256MB ram. For 4GB versus 8GB I don't see why the huge jump.

[KELL5]

Isn't the test benchmarking the speed? Why would size have anything to do with it besides in you example tons of paging because of only 256MB ram. For 4GB versus 8GB I don't see why the huge jump.

Theres actually a formula.

Operations per second, memory throughput in MB/s combined with aperture = WEI score.

I calculate that 8GB-16GB of DDR2/3 at 8,000MB/s+ is required for a 7.9

I'd like to see ANDREYANG's WEI memory score.....I think we can safely say he'd get a 7.9

[dan7777]

Where you doing anything else when you did the experience thing?

no wasnt doing anything else. im puzzled

[KELL5]

no wasnt doing anything else. im puzzled

can you open a cmd prompt window and type....

winsat mem

and hit return.....after a few seconds you'll get a MB/s readout.....what does your memory achieve?

[dan7777]

can you open a cmd prompt window and type....

winsat mem

and hit return.....after a few seconds you'll get a MB/s readout.....what does your memory achieve?

weird that ive got the memory overclocked to 980mhz from 800 and in cmd its only saying... mem performance 7335.67 mb/s why is this cheers kell5

[rickvtv6]

weird that ive got the memory overclocked to 980mhz from 800 and in cmd its only saying... mem performance 7335.67 mb/s why is this cheers kell5

i dont think this should matter with wei but u running x32 or x64? and if you go to system properties it reads the 8gb where it states your processor speeds and wei?