How reliable is the windows 7 Experience Index?

EdwardTeach

EdwardTeach

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I score between 7.5 and 7.8 on each aspect of the test. here is a screenshot of my result:
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can i take this as a reliable indicator that my hardware is all working fine?

If not can someone recommend me a good tool to use (preferably easy to use)

I am not overclocking or anything, i have just noticed that football manager is running surprisingly slowly on my system and i wanted to rule out any hardware issue.
 
You can check for stability by running Prime or Intel Burn Test.
Download mem test to check your ram is ok.
 
What HDD do you have? For some odd reason all my scores on that are high but my HDD is only getting 5.2 (or similar)!! It's a Samsung Spinpoint F3 with 32mb cache - I thought it was pretty quick but windows seems to disagree grrr.
 
Howitzer said:
What HDD do you have? For some odd reason all my scores on that are high but my HDD is only getting 5.2 (or similar)!! It's a Samsung Spinpoint F3 with 32mb cache - I thought it was pretty quick but windows seems to disagree grrr.
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To get above that you have to have an SSD. Using RAID might increase it a tad too.
 
The windows experience index is not a reliable tool. My I7 920 used to score 3.0 on the test. I then ran Wprime and got a time that 920's should have got.

If you want a good hardware stress test IBT or Vantage are good, with realtemp to measure temps.
 
Wow - what's a high CPU score reserved for?! I also get a 7.5 with my 4GHz i5 :( 5.6 for my HDD though so a litle better than Howitzer :p I'm also wondering what on earth it's going on about re the available graphics memory being almost a couple of gig over what my GPU has on board and mentioning shared system memory. That doesn't still happen nowadays does it? Well maybe if you have an integrated graphics solution, but I dont??

I fully agree it is pobably a load of ball locks as far as decent benches go.
 
Yeah you might want some bigger fans. (not in football manager!)
I'm on SSD RAID and I'm rated at 7.6 for my HDD. So its pretty pointless using the windows rating.
 
I have 5 fans!

What temps should I expect to see for my CPU under light usage? (I have not overclocked anything) I was expecting about half what I am seeing I.e around 30-40 c
 
EdwardTeach said:
i have just downloaded realtemp - my cpu temp is showing at ~60-70C

Is this rather high considering i have just turned my computer on and I am not doing anything other than using the internet?
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Wow very high indeed! Check that the cooler is mounted correctly?
 
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