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Vista Experience quirk ?

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Bionic_Plague

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E6700 @ 10x334
4x1GB of OCZ Platinum Rev 2 @ 417 / 835 4-4-4-12 timings
Gigabyte P965-DS3 F9 Bios

Vista Ultimate x64

Vista Experience index gave me scores of 5.7 - 5.6 - 5.9 - 5.9 - 5.9 with memory being the 5.6 when i had only 2GB.
After adding 2GB the score dropped to 5.0. I took 2GB back out and still scored 5.0. I dropped to stock settings for cpu and memory
and score went back to 5.6.

Sandra reports 6200 / 6100 at overclocked settings. Not sure if Everest supports x64. May try it also.

Anyone else having strange anomalies with Microsofts "benchmark" ? My system seems stable and plenty speedy so I'm pretty certain I don't have an issue. I think my 1MB SuperPi time was 15.8s
 
That thing is hardly an industrial-strength benchmark tool. I wouldn't take the numbers too seriously.
 
The Vista Experience Index isn't meant to be a benchmark utility like 3dmark or pcmark. It's a marketting utility to help non-computer savy users figure out if thier system can run particular games. It all goes hand in hand with the "Games for Windows" logo stuff. If you buy a game with that logo it will have a number on the box that you compare to the experience index on your windows box. If your PC is that number or higher you will be able to run the game. That's why the final index score shows your lowest score and not an average.
 
griffinhart said:
The Vista Experience Index isn't meant to be a benchmark utility like 3dmark or pcmark. It's a marketting utility to help non-computer savy users figure out if thier system can run particular games. It all goes hand in hand with the "Games for Windows" logo stuff. If you buy a game with that logo it will have a number on the box that you compare to the experience index on your windows box. If your PC is that number or higher you will be able to run the game. That's why the final index score shows your lowest score and not an average.
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Ding ding...winner. We have a winner here!

Seriously, don't hold to much stock in that benchmark. On my laptop, I was able to get random scores just by re-running the tool. My scores would vary up or down .1 or .2 of a point.
 
Odd mine are hard locked.. sounds like your drivers are declocking the cpu but not ramping it back up for the vista tests in a timely manner.
 
My video scores change the most. The Aero desktop score, not the gaming one. The laptop has a mobile ATI 9600.
 
Hope I didn't give the impression i was all that concerned. Just a little curious. If the Sandra scores had been down around 4000 i would have started wondering. Can't say I trust Sandra much at all either though... ;)

If anyone knows a good memory benchmark program that works with Vista x64 please share a link for download and thanks in advance.

So far I'm liking Vista btw but haven't installed any games on it. Been too busy with other things the last couple of weeks.

Take care all and thanks for the feedback.
 
The best memory benchmark is a game. Who cares what some random score or numerical figure some benchmark program says? Did you buy the computer to use or to sit and run benchmarks all day? Get some games on there, and really push the system. If it handles the games just fine, you're good to go. If not, then it's time to investigate. Get you're money's worth out of that system!
 
djnes said:
The best memory benchmark is a game. Who cares what some random score or numerical figure some benchmark program says? Did you buy the computer to use or to sit and run benchmarks all day? Get some games on there, and really push the system. If it handles the games just fine, you're good to go. If not, then it's time to investigate. Get you're money's worth out of that system!
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Your custom title is well-deserved.

I can't tell you how many people to whom I say that cannot understand that.
 
^^What djnes said^^

That is the best advice your going get, and I have been saying it for a while, the best benchmark I can think of right now is Oblivion... play that for a while and see how it does maxed out:)
 
hehe. yep, with everything going on this thing has been a waste of money lately. Work, wrecked my car etc. =\

Have Oblivion here and GTR2 but haven't installed either yet. Stumbled on the quirk after installing the memory a couple of nights ago.

Time for bed ! :)
 
Everest reports 7469MB/s read speeds so everything is cool. Hopefully I'll get time to enjoy this newly built toy this coming week. Still having fun being the village idiot with the shiny Vista object right now what time i have on here.... :)

Microsoft is doing so good at benchmaks that i think they should write an OS next..... ;)
 
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