4Gb Corsair Dominator DDR2 8500 = 5.3 in Vista Scoreboard?!

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As per title really, am running vista home premium 32bit and have 4gb installed (yes I know it wont recognise the full 4gb) but even so, any ideas why it would be limited to 5.3 on the scoreboard? Can only 64bit OS with 4Gb or more get 5.9?
 
That's because Corsair Dominator sucks ;)

Could also be because chipset latencies get dropped with 4GB..... some people have noticed drops going from 2GB to 4GB with the Vista Experience whatever even with 64Bit Vista versions.

Just proves how bad it is as a measure of system performance.
 
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Its the Timings, I get 5.9 here, and got 5.9 on the 4GB Muskin as its 4:3:3:10.

It the same with ReadyBoost, some Drives are Fast enough in MB/Sec but its the Timings and Latency etc it counts (sucks I know thats why you can ignore the Vista Scores).
 
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No, but Im a official Beta Tester.

Telling him there is something wrong with his set up is more dangerous as he may go and start to worry over nothing.

Vista Scores are taken with a pinch of salt by anyone I know in the team.

You could get 2 different brands of ram exactly the same speed and Timings and both get exact same benckmards in Sandra or such but Vista may score 1 brand lower than the other.

The Vista Score is going up to 6.3 soon anyhow.
 
Kermit said:
so you have inside knowledge of what tests ms base the score on?

Everyone might as well ignore all the other benchmarks and minor adjustments of cas, ras etc if thats your pov of a 0.6 difference between his setup and similar setups :rolleyes:
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No but what info does Vista rating give you, seriously give me one count it gives you? What sufficiently intelligent person would actually use that crap? Go take an everest memory benchmark, or Sandra memory test, or any friggin useful test, but do not judge anything like Vistas insanely crappy ratings. It's the worst Microsoft decision ever, worse than DRM even.
 
Talrinys said:
No but what info does Vista rating give you, seriously give me one count it gives you? What sufficiently intelligent person would actually use that crap? Go take an everest memory benchmark, or Sandra memory test, or any friggin useful test, but do not judge anything like Vistas insanely crappy ratings. It's the worst Microsoft decision ever, worse than DRM even.
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Insulting people across the board again does not seem a very intelligent thing to do. but i doubt that you do that sort of thing in real life on a everyday basis as it would not be good for your personal heath.
The vista rating is very limited & should be used for very basic evaluation on comparison of configuration of your own system & not against others when most setups on OCUK max it out anyway.
I went from 4GB of pc3200 to 4GB of pc4000 & my pc became a stuttering mess.
I ran the vista rating & it showed me exactly where my problem was with the very low mem score and figured the auto mem timings ain't doing the job for this mem but hell no! i should have used everest & Sandra first & done some heavy benching right ;)

If i tweak my setup & get i higher vista score then how can that not be a good thing.
I only use Everest & Sandra for the serious benching.
 
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Final8y said:
I went from 4GB of pc3200 to 4GB of pc4000 & my pc became a stuttering mess.

I ran the vista rating & it showed me exactly where my problem was with the very low mem score and figured the auto mem timings ain't doing the job for this mem but hell no! i should have used everest & Sandra first & done some heavy benching right ;)
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Actually, the mere fact that you had the problem after changing your RAM should have been a pretty big red flag. Furthermore saying that the Vista test is good for debugging RAM is erroneous as there will be plenty of ram errors it wont pick up.

For that type of thing you use Memtest86+.

"Auto" ram setting with high performance RAM is a bit silly tbh as most RAM doesnt have its best settings programed into the SPD, my Cas 3 667Mhz is rated to 5-3-3-15 by SPD, but 3-3-3-10 as spec.
 
simonnance said:
Actually, the mere fact that you had the problem after changing your RAM should have been a pretty big red flag. Furthermore saying that the Vista test is good for debugging RAM is erroneous as there will be plenty of ram errors it wont pick up.

For that type of thing you use Memtest86+.

"Auto" ram setting with high performance RAM is a bit silly tbh as most RAM doesnt have its best settings programed into the SPD, my Cas 3 667Mhz is rated to 5-3-3-15 by SPD, but 3-3-3-10 as spec.
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I didn't say vista was good for debugging ram did i now! i said that i had a stuttering problem & thats the first thing that i had to hand seeing as i had just done a fresh install as well & i wanted to see if vista had something to say about it & in this case it did & of cause i suspected it was the ram in the first place.
memtest is built into my bios & would not of picked up the bad timing settings.
My point is the the vista rating has some use & should not be totally disregarded by all.
simply put if i reconfigurer my setup & my score go`s down i very much don't that in real terms my setup is intact faster than it was before hand.
 
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@ Final8y, Why you even arguing, I did not see Talrinys insult anyone in this thread apart from have a dig at MS. :confused:

The Vista Scores are nothing to loose any sleep over, so get over them. :rolleyes:
 
helmutcheese said:
@ Final8y, Why you even arguing, I did not see Talrinys insult anyone in this thread apart from have a dig at MS. :confused:

The Vista Scores are nothing to loose any sleep over, so get over them. :rolleyes:
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I don't have a problem with the vista scores.
& saying people who take notice of the vista scores in anyway as lacking intelligence is an insult dissevered or not.
 
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