Low Windows Ram Score

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Hi,

Just moved over to 64bit windows 7, and when I ran the windows performance test, my ram came up as 5.9, when on 32bit it came up as 7.5.

I'm using 3GB of PC3-12800 (1600mhz), and nothing has changed hardware wise since installing 32bit.

Any ideas what could be causing this?
 
There running at 534mhz, which is 1066 - as its set to that in the bios. There's something in there that says that only DDR3-800 and DDR3-1066 work for a locked cpu, what does this mean and an I run it on DDR3-1333?

The page file is 1gb. Would an increase help?
 
i was told (when doing my A+ so its not very good) that ideally it should be set between 1.5 and 2 x the physical ram. i find on mine, 8GB PF give me the best performance (well it did on my old Q8300 with DDR2 4GB).
 
I've set the page file to 4gb now, and the score hasn't changed. Am I able to run it at higher than DDR3-1066?
 
What is the exact model of your RAM? When you know that you will be able to find the voltage and timings required for full 1600MHz - which you will need to set in the BIOS. It is currently just running at default speed/voltage.

As for windows RAM score- ignore it, it isn't relevant and not a good gauge of performance. The likely reason for the change in score is due to RAM size not speed. 32bit win 7 can only use up to 4GB RAM - so 3GB DDR3 will look pretty good to it and give it a high score. Meanwhile 64 bit win 7 can address up to 16GB on home premium and 192GB on Pro & Ultimate, so 3GB doesn't seem as good to these editions - it doesn't mean its any slower than before.
 
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The memory is CM3x1g1600C9.

As long as its the same performance, I'm not really that bothered. Don't want to mess around too much with it, as it cost me a fair bit.

Thanks for the replys and answers.
 
Yes, all three sticks are showing up. Wanted to get another 3 of the same type, but no where sells them anymore.
 
seems odd. i know windows scores arent anything to get too hung up on, if it feels fine then chances are its ok.
what are the other scores like, have they dropped too?
 
paradisiac said:
i was told (when doing my A+ so its not very good) that ideally it should be set between 1.5 and 2 x the physical ram. i find on mine, 8GB PF give me the best performance (well it did on my old Q8300 with DDR2 4GB).
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Thats about 10 years out of date imho... Sure when we had systems with 128MB of ram, and windows was using half of it, a large page file kept things ticking over, but with 4GB+ of physical ram, (not to mention that compared to 10 years ago ram is much cheaper), the aim for keeping a PC running fast os for the swapfile to never be used, keeping a small swap file keeps a few legacy applications happy when they reserve swap without even checking how much real ram is available.

I would say for the average system between 25% and 100% of physical ram is an absolute max for the swapfile.

For what its worth, my ram score is 7.2 in 64bit W7, and thats with 6GB of DDR2-667 (PC5300)

Either way the swapfile shouldnt affect the windows score,
 
Corasik said:
Thats about 10 years out of date imho... Sure when we had systems with 128MB of ram, and windows was using half of it, a large page file kept things ticking over, but with 4GB+ of physical ram, (not to mention that compared to 10 years ago ram is much cheaper), the aim for keeping a PC running fast os for the swapfile to never be used, keeping a small swap file keeps a few legacy applications happy when they reserve swap without even checking how much real ram is available.

I would say for the average system between 25% and 100% of physical ram is an absolute max for the swapfile.

For what its worth, my ram score is 7.2 in 64bit W7, and thats with 6GB of DDR2-667 (PC5300)

Either way the swapfile shouldnt affect the windows score,
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which is about when i did my A+ back in 2000, and even then 90% of the stuff was out dated.
i found my windows score jumped up when i changed it from 4GB to 8GB and dropped at 9GB again.
 
paradisiac said:
which is about when i did my A+ back in 2000, and even then 90% of the stuff was out dated.
i found my windows score jumped up when i changed it from 4GB to 8GB and dropped at 9GB again.
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The windows score is so unpredictable its just as likely to jump with no changes at all, just reboot and it's got a fair chance of being different. Perhaps its because I have 6gb, but I get 7.2 on my ram regardless of pagefile, disabled, 2,4,6,8,10gb all same score.

Just reinstalled on my new SSD boot disk, and to save space I have dumped a small pagefile on my old Seagate's, and there is still 7.2 on the memory score :P. (I only keep the page file to keep badly behaved apps from complaining about not having one, its normally unused anyway)
 
yeah, which is why i said not to get too hung up on the windows exerience scores, just see how the system actually runs/feels for what you use it for, if it runs as you expect then surely thats all that matters.
 
just out of intrest, is there anything else running in the background that could be using the memory, i know its a longshot as the cpu would more than likely drop too, but worth a look.
 
Nope, Its the first thing that I did after installing 7, just after installing the 9.12 graphics drivers.
 
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