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Windows Experience Score - is it accurate

Nippletweaker

Nippletweaker

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I Have just put a AMD Phenom Quad Core 955 which Overclockers have clocked at 3.8ghz (came with MA790XT-UD4P motherboard and 8gb of 1600 RAM) into my PC and Vista(64 bit) is rating it at 4.7 on the Windows experience score - does this mean I haven't set things up properly or is the score really that innaccurate? I know its not a true benchmark but is it indicative of my system needing further optimisation - if so what should I check? Apologies if this is a daft question - this is my first real foray into overclocking....
 
No it's not accurate at all.

4.7 is low, however the score is based on your lowest...4.7 is probably what your hard disk scored which is acceptable.
 
It's not accurate at all. My 4870 beat someone else's 4870X2. Granted that's basically because it ignores any Xfire or sli, but you get the idea. It's either still a work in progress or it's never going to be used much.
 
valdai said:
It's not accurate at all. My 4870 beat someone else's 4870X2. Granted that's basically because it ignores any Xfire or sli, but you get the idea. It's either still a work in progress or it's never going to be used much.
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But that doesn't mean it doesn't work. It's like there are games that get lower fps when crossfire is enabled, it depends if the game or application was written to take advantage of it.
 
Everything in my pc scores 5.9 except the cpu.

Even overlcokcing from the stock 3.12ghz to over 4ghz wont make it change from 5.8 to 5.9 so im guessing you have to have a quad core to score 5.9 as the cpu processing power doesnt seem to have any effect ( what with overclocking it by close to 1ghz! ).

Its only really useful to check that drivers are working right... such as if you get a score of 2 or something on a samsung F1 hdd then you know something is wrong.
 
Stonedofmoo said:
But that doesn't mean it doesn't work. It's like there are games that get lower fps when crossfire is enabled, it depends if the game or application was written to take advantage of it.
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True but the discrepancy you just described only backs up the redundancy of the WEI due to the huge variety in how different software handles different hardware. Basically WEI is not very useful, even if it is accurate within it's own limitations.
 
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