Windows 8 Experience Index (How To)

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Not as easy accessed as it's older sibling, but can still be done. Most will not care but I know there are you guys,
you know who you are, can't resist the challenge... All Hail #benchmarkmaniacs :D

1/ First create and run a *.bat file with the content below,

@Echo off

rem How you doin'

echo Ready?

pause

winsat prepop

powershell -Command Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_WinSAT

pause


2/ Then follow this link
www.bit.ly/Win-8_Exp_Index

Scroll down the page to you see the quoted text below this will show the method
for extracting the data from the test performed by the bat file.

"Follow the given below instructions to check WEI score in Windows 8.1 or higher"

3/ or forget about the ^^ above, take the easy road
and download this third party skinned tool
www.bit.ly/WinAero
(I extracted the zip and ran this with no issues)

thanks to Broken Hope for the suggestion :D
 
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Results for my ageing
i7 2600k@ 4.2Ghz,
2x4 Gigs Kingston Hyperx @1600
Ati/Amd R9 270x Gpu,
OS on Samsung Evo 850 250GB,
2x4 Gigs of Kingston Hyperx @1600


<MemoryScore>8.3</MemoryScore>

<CpuScore>8.3</CpuScore>

<GamingScore>8.4</GamingScore>

<DiskScore>8.15</DiskScore>

<CPUSubAggScore>8.3</CPUSubAggScore>

<VideoEncodeScore>8.4</VideoEncodeScore>

WinAero tool result
5yb5lj.png
 
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Pardon my ignorance, but what is this for?
It's just a way to access the old ratings that Windows used to provide on the System page all the way from Vista to 8. For whatever reason, they decided to remove all trace of it from the UI in 8.1 (probably because it never took off like they wanted it to as a way of judging system prowess), but the underlying code is still there, so you can run it manually via PowerShell and get a rating like this.
 
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