Component	Details	Subscore	Base score
Processor	Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz	5.2	5.2   Determined by lowest subscore
Memory (RAM)	2.00 GB	5.4
Graphics	Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition	5.9
Gaming graphics	1279 MB Total available graphics memory	5.9
Primary hard disk	72GB Free (98GB Total)	5.2
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate

 

Still messing with the system and vista but so far so good

Component	Details	Subscore	Base score
Processor	Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz	5.1	5.1   Determined by lowest subscore
Memory (RAM)	2.00 GB	5.4
Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT	5.9
Gaming graphics	527 MB Total available graphics memory	5.4
Primary hard disk	437GB Free (457GB Total)	5.9
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate

MY SCORE IS 5.0 FOR THE GRAPHICS AND THAT IS THE LOWEST, MY HOME BUILT PC SCORED 5.9 X 3 AND ONE 5.6

MY LAPTOP SCORED A 1.0 DUE TO THE POOR GRAPHICS CARD

@ Wheelie - looks good, 'scuse the nosiness but what are your system specs/components?

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I have 2GB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM installed - but my score is brought down because of memory... This is on a Dell Inspiron 9400 with Centrino Core 2 Duo 2GHz processor.  Am quite happy with the performance of Vista and the PC in general, but the 4.5 score does seem an anomaly.  Any inputs?

 

System details below, bit disappointed at the score for my processor. Score of 5.6 but this is for the processor, all the other components score 5.9. Makes you feel spending the money was worth it!

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.93GHz Dual Core Retail LGA775 Overclocked

BFG nForce 680 Motherboard LGA775

GSkill Dual Channel PK PC2-6400 2GB

Western Digital Raptor 150GB 16MB Cache SATA

Asus Geforce 8800 GTX 768MB

Vista Ultimate (32bit) 

 I refuse to spend on DirectX9 hardware, waiting to get a DX10 card, I want a 8800GTX soo bad, but I want to wait and see if anything else nice comes out, I don't technically need DX10 hardware yet, so I'm holding out long as I can, to save money, and also get the best of the best!

The processor score could be better, but given what I spent I'm very happy! I'll be getting a better processor only when I need it, this thing hasn't given me a bottleneck yet, so I'm happy about that, besides I'm still waiting on some games that fully support multithreading, like, built on it from the ground up.

 EDIT: My DX10 card is on the way, GeForce 8800GTX Superclocked version, and the AMD64 X2 6000+, along with another 2GB ram, but I'm already at 5.9 on that, so it won't budge I guess. Now I'll have 5.9 across the board except my hard drive, but it's perfectly fine no way I'm upgraded it, it's fast, and 400GB is enough! Taking my mustang off the road for a while so I'll have extra money easy.

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HP M7750N
7600GT/8800GTX-Superclocked
WEI 5.9

I got a 5.0

 

Processor Athlon x2 3800+  2.40Gh (5.0)

2 Gigs DDR (400) @ 480 (5.6)

Geforce 7600 GT KO
Aero graphics (5.9)
Gaming Graphics (5.7)  

Hard drive speed (5.1)  120GB sata

 

lunchbox11790:

I got a 5.0

Processor Athlon x2 3800+  2.40Gh (5.0)

The 3800X2 runs 2.0Ghz stock, have you overclocked it? Oh and I highly recommend upgrading to DDR2 ram, makes a world of difference gaming, I saw a 12% increase in FPS in a Doom 3 benchmark, "timedemo demo1 usecache"

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HP M7750N
7600GT/8800GTX-Superclocked
WEI 5.9

I have a home built PC and is as follows:-

Motherboard Gigabite GA-965P-DS3

CPU Intel Pentium(R) D 3.00 GHz                          Subscore    4.8

Memory (RAM)  4.00GB                                                          5.4

Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT/GTO                                  5.4

Gaming graphics 751  MB Total available graphics memory        5.8

Primary hard disk  68GB free (112GB Total)                              5.4                                                                                                                    

I am very happy with Vista but two things are of concern firstly software devolopers advertise their software as Vista ready when it is only 32bit ready they seem to have forgotten there is 32bit & 64bit. Why not advertise the software as 32bit or 32 & 64bit Vista ready. The other thing is Vista I wish to change my HD from 112GB to 200GB and thes software doesent like it and tells me I have tried to install into a different PC

Processor:                  AMD  Athlon 64 X2 4200+             4.9

Memory:                    2GB DDR2 800 dual channel         5.9

Graphics:                   GeForce 7600GS 256MB RAM       4.4

Gaming Graphics:      GeForce 7600GS 256MB RAM       4.7

Hard Drive:                WD 80GB Serial 3Gbps                  5.3

 

Windows Experience Index                                             4.4

 

 

more than 2 sticks in most mbs will default RAM speeds to 2T, 'T' being clock cycles. 1T is usually preferrable, memory, though less, simply runs faster. Experience index measures memory ops per sec. fiddle with BIOS to find the 1T/2T switch, possibly newer processor integrated controllers will allow for 1T timing with 4 stcks, but doubtful.

mine is 5.2...

 

OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate 
Version 6.0.6000 Build 6000 
Other OS Description  Not Available 
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation 
System Name HORUS 
System Manufacturer Dell Inc. 
System Model Precision WorkStation 490 
System Type x64-based PC 
Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5320  @ 1.86GHz, 1867 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s) 
Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5320  @ 1.86GHz, 1867 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s) 
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A04, 4/4/2007 
SMBIOS Version 2.3 
Windows Directory C:\Windows 
System Directory C:\Windows\system32 
Locale United States 
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6000.16407" 
User Name horus\ntwizard 
Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time 
Total Physical Memory 6,140.85 MB 
Available Physical Memory 4.30 GB 
Total Virtual Memory 12.08 GB 
Available Virtual Memory 10.50 GB 
Page File Space 6.29 GB 
Page File C:\pagefile.sys 

Well mine is only 2.5

But its running on bare minimum specs like an age old xp2000 chip which will only run at 1,24GHz, 512 ram, 20 GB hdd.....and the mobo, well don't even ask!

I'm happy with that.....until I learn to stop overclocking my home builds and frying them, then I'll have to put up with it!

That said, I'm loving Vista. Not really having used XP much, can't really say how different it is, as I'm used to running 2000, preferred it to XP anyway.

Who says you need to go out and buy new hardware. Even aero works. It's a bit laggy on ram but apart from that runs a treat apart from the odd bsod and one or two sudden crashes at install.

Component Details Subscore Base score Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.66GHz 5.9 5.4   Determined by lowest subscore Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB 5.4 Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 5.9 Gaming graphics 1533 MB Total available graphics memory 5.9 Primary hard disk 119GB Free (143GB Total) 5.9 Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate My score is only 5.4 I don't understand why some of you only have 2GB of RAM with a score of 5.9, yet I have 4GB of 8500 DRR2 Dominator RAM which is DAMM good stuff. Processor = QX6700 QUAD CORE Graphics = 8800GTX in Sli Hard Disk = 2x Raptor X 150GB in SATA RAID 0  Any ideas how to up my RAM score???