What is your Windows Experience Index?

[Azza ☠]

Start > Control Panel > System > Rating > Re-run the accessment

Processor: ??
Memory: ??
Graphics: ??
Gaming graphics: ??
Primary hard disk: ??

Operating System: ??

Just for interest, discovering some of your system bottlenecks, or brag about the about of money your blown away on your system! :)

The base score is determined by the system’s bottleneck score.

Also note down your Windows Operating System version. Win 7 limits it to 7.9 max. Since Windows 8, the scale ranges up to 9.9.


Mine is currently...

Processor: 7.7 (3rd Gen Ivy Bridge)
Memory: 7.7 (1600Mhz CL9)
Graphics: 7.9
Gaming graphics: 7.9 (GTX 780)
Primary hard disk: 7.9 (Western Digital Black Edition HDD + Samsung 840 Pro SSD)

Operating System: Win 7 Ultimate (64 bit)

[Carlsberg]

Win 7 64bit

Processor 7.3
Memory 7.5
Graphics 7.9
Gaming Graphics 7.9 (2 x nvidia GTX 650ti in SLI)
Primary Disk 7.9 (Samsung 840 Evo 250gb)

Cpu being replaced soon with Amd FX 8350

[Sigz]

Windows 7 64 bit.

Processor: 7.7 (Core i5 3570K)
Memory: 7.8
Graphics: 7.9
Gaming graphics: 7.9 (MSI GTX 780)
Primary Hard Disk: 7.8 (OCZ vertex 3 90Gb SSD)

[Azza ☠]

Looks like most (who reply) have some really beastly next gen pcs, some really nice specs guys :)

[100% Recycled Awesome]

Processor: 7.6 - i5 4670K
RAM: 7.6 - 8 GB DDR3 1600
Graphics: 7.7 - GTX 560
Gaming Graphics: 7.7 - GTX 560
Primary Harddisk: 7.9 - Kingston SATA III

[CaptainZapp]

Win 7 64-Bit

Processor 7.7 (FX-8350)
RAM 7.7 (Patriot Viper 2400)
Graphics Aero 7.9
Graphics Gaming 7.9 (Radeon 7970 Matrix Platinum)
Hard Disk 7.9 (Samsung 840 pro)

Base Score 7.7

[russy23]

Processor: 7.3 Q6600 @ 3.0
RAM: 7.3 6GB DDR2
Graphics: 7.7 650 TI 1GB
Gaming Graphics:7.7
Primary Harddisk: 5.9

[Fork_Q2]

Processor: 7.7
RAM: 7.7
Graphics: 7.9
Gaming Graphics: 7.9
Primary Hard disk: 7.7

[Fork_Q2]

Why is "Gaming Graphics" treated as a distinct score from "Graphics"? Surely the rating would be the same...

[Depression]

OS: W7 x64
Processor: 7.3 (AMD Phenom II X4 940)
Memory: 7.3 (Kingston 1600MHz)
Graphics: 7.7
Gaming Graphics: 7.7 (2x4770)
Primary Hard Disk: 7.9 (Samsung 830 SSD)

[Rubik748]

Fork_Q eredeti hozzászólása:

Why is "Gaming Graphics" treated as a distinct score from "Graphics"? Surely the rating would be the same...

Windoze Aero effects, glass colour and transparent windows boarders. Turning those off turns is worse than Windoze 8. Which is stupid because 8 is 7 just without those effects.

But gaming graphics is more than just shiny windows edges.

[Fork_Q2]

Rubik748 eredeti hozzászólása:

Fork_Q eredeti hozzászólása:

Why is "Gaming Graphics" treated as a distinct score from "Graphics"? Surely the rating would be the same...

Windoze Aero effects, glass colour and transparent windows boarders. Turning those off turns is worse than Windoze 8. Which is stupid because 8 is 7 just without those effects.

But gaming graphics is more than just shiny windows edges.

I assumed that it would be the Windows Vista/7 compositor effects, but why is it even part of a the index? Looking at everyone else's scores - they get the same value for that as they do "graphics". Unless I'm mistaken, isn't the case that the integrated graphics chip will always be superseded when a video card is installed?

[rotNdude]

I can run Windows 7 x64 just fine with this system. The WEI is a joke.

i5 3570k @ stock 7.6
8GB Crucial 1333Mhz 9-9-9-24 7.7
GTX 570 Graphics 7.9
GTX 570 3D business and gaming Graphics 7.9
Crucial M400 256GB primary hard disk 7.9

[Rubik748]

Fork_Q eredeti hozzászólása:

I assumed that it would be the Windows Vista/7 compositor effects, but why is it even part of the index? Looking at everyone else's scores - they get the same value for that as they do "graphics". Unless I'm mistaken, isn't the case that the integrated graphics chip will always be superseded when a video card is installed?

When Windoze runs it with a card installed, it counts the card and not the cpu/gpu junk. But reboot or even cold boot without a graphics card installed, it counts only the cpu/gpu part. And it doesn't matter if the drivers are left there or not.

[Azza ☠]

For the graphics, any high-end dedicated card seems to make it's performance. As mentioned above, the graphics are separated to how well a computer will run Windows Aero and play videos, this is based upon video memory bandwidth. So 2GB+ seems to be liked. Gaming graphics subscore on the other hand is DirectX processing texture FPS. This will normally 99% of the time match with other, unless you do something funky like 'Lucid Virtu MVP' which uses both graphic card and onboard graphic processing on different tasks.

In order to get over 5.9 for your primary hard disk - you need to use SSD or RAID. It caps all HDDs to that possible max - no matter if you have a high-end Black Edition with 64MB cache vs a Green Eco-Friendly Edition.

In order to get over 7.7 for your memory - it seems to want at least 12GB (Tri) or 16GB (Duel/Quad) with the voltage < 1.5 and low CL timing vs MHz (CL8 1866MHz seems to be best peak)? Note: CL timing normally goes up when you get higher MHz, so not all 2400MHz will be as good as even 1600MHz, which is more than enough, depending on their timing. 1333MHz however can bottleneck. In real life, 1600MHz CL9 is optimal for gaming purposes, any more won't show more than 1% performance increase. However, lower timing and/or higher MHz can help in certain cases, such as heavy video processing, raw image work and high-end applications while multitasking.

WEI is nothing much to take serious, just more of an interest. It does have some facts to it, but it's really rough and guesses/requirements in some places (you require XX amount of memory to get above such and such, etc - in real life 4GB (32bit) or 8GB (64bit) will do most people). It's probably why they decided to hide it soo much in Win 8.1, for only geeks and the determined to be able to find... haha. Don't stress over it, specially if your system is working fine and they are quite even. If you fine something off such as your previously overclocked memory running at only 4.1, when the rest of the system is around 7.1, then you should take a look into that kind of thing.

[rotNdude]

Azza ☠ eredeti hozzászólása:

As mentioned above, the graphics are separated to how well a computer will run Windows Aero and play videos, this is based upon video memory bandwidth. So 2GB+ seems to be liked.

You can throw that analysis out the window (no pun intended) since my GTX 570 only has 1280MB of VRAM.