Windows Experience Index on vista 64

hazzardboy7

hazzardboy7

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hi
I reinstalled vista 64 home premium a few days ago,and the p.c is working fine, however I've noticed a little thing which I cant explain.

I had a index score of 5.9 on everything before i reinstalled (Windows Experience Index) but now it has dropped to 5.7 everything is reading as 5.9 all bar the memory score which is 5.7.

anyone know why this has happened, I don't think its a major problem but I wanted to cure this, so today I got another 4 gig of ram (8 gig in all) but it still reads as 5.7.

I cant understand why the score has dropped nothing has changed so I'm slightly baffled


Thanks
 
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What RAM are you running? For example if your running DDR400 then your BIOS should detect it as such rather then say DDR333.

Burnsy
 
Turophobic said:
Do not worry, you are not alone! Different installs can give different readings. It's meaningless as a good benchmark anyway.
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It has never done that for me & i have reinstalled to may times to mention.
It has given me the same reading every time.
a good benchmark no it ain't, but never the less but points going down on the same set-up can be an indication that something is not as it was.
 
Same here - umpteen (re)installs and had consistent results throughout.

Did you do anything else at the same time as the reinstall - like BIOS flash perhaps? Or when you ran the Index did you have lots of other tasks/programs running in the background - or maybe ran it before your PC had "fully finished" booting
 
Burnsy2023 said:
What RAM are you running? For example if your running DDR400 then your BIOS should detect it as such rather then say DDR333.

Burnsy
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I'm using this ram.

8GB (4x2GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-18

I have a abit motherboard, first time I tried vista 64 home premium on a 30 day trial, I got 5.9 on everything, overall I like vista so I brought a copy and after my trial period had expired I reinstalled the vista software.

I'm wondering if you are right in what you are saying as the bios was updated when I reinstalled windows, which at the time I didn't think of.(the new bios software was buggy so i went back to the version i had when i purchased the motherboard)

Maybe its the windows install but its worth checking the bios settings as well, I have reinstalled windows twice because of this score problem and both times the score I'm getting is 5.7.

ive done the indexing test about 7 times now, the p.c wasnt doing anything while doing the test.


update............
just gone in the biso, under 0c guru i see this:
DRAM SPEED (CPU:DRAM) DEFAULT (DDR2-816) is this what im looking for if it is is this set correctly, becasue i cant see how to change it.

thx
 
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Final8y said:
It has never done that for me & i have reinstalled to may times to mention.
It has given me the same reading every time.
a good benchmark no it ain't, but never the less but points going down on the same set-up can be an indication that something is not as it was.
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36gb Raptor on mine flip/flops between 5.4 and 5.5 on the odd install. Can't see any reason for it at all though.... even imaging back a base image and re-running the bench sometimes does this. Performance of machine doesn't change at all though and I know with absolute certainty that there's not a thing wrong with anything in the machine.
 
Just forget about it and enjoy using the PC again :) Like any benchmark, the results are variable. So long as your system isn't any slower during normal usage, I wouldn't bother worrying about it.
 
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