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)

[Azza ☠]

Windows 8 was entirely designed for low power devices such as tablets (it's a cross platform OS with cloud technology being built in and touch screen interface). WEI would destory it's illusion, so they hid it in 8.1.

Though WEI was never widely used, it represented an official acknowledgement that not all PCs are created equal, and that more powerful hardware and having X amount of resources makes for a better overall experience, without bottlenecks.

That’s an idea that Microsoft now evidently wants to distance itself from.

In fairness, the typical user experience differs less between these systems than a synthetic benchmark would imply. Modern high-end PCs deliver far more power than the average user will need or notice, and could just be overkill.

They have moved upon more important things like the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip with Win 8 (completely hooks into your system BIOS / Boot) which can completely lock down your entire system from boot level making it a brick. The germans originally thought this was linked into a remote access device for the NSA to control. “It’s a backdoor!” scream the conspiracy theorists. The issue I have with it, is try to downgrade or change your Operating System to a different one such as iOS or Linux... you actually need to hack it or Win 8 won't reconise it as a legal OS and consider it a security risk overwriting it's BOOT - even an offical Windows 7 or older Windows disc it will be refused from changing your Win 8 back! They did this to protect from malicous attacks, but it's still a pure evil restriction.

Then on top of that - Microsoft charges for any downgrades (simply fresh installing Win 7 or something else) on new purchased pcs and then asserts that it's not obligated to support any of those downgraded systems.

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Azza ☠님이 먼저 게시:

Windows 8 was entirely designed for low power devices such as tablets (it's a cross platform OS with cloud technology being built in and touch screen interface). WEI would destory it's illusion, so they hid it in 8.1.

Though WEI was never widely used, it represented an official acknowledgement that not all PCs are created equal, and that more powerful hardware and having X amount of resources makes for a better overall experience, without bottlenecks.

That’s an idea that Microsoft now evidently wants to distance itself from.

In fairness, the typical user experience differs less between these systems than a synthetic benchmark would imply. Modern high-end PCs deliver far more power than the average user will need or notice, and could just be overkill.

They have moved upon more important things like the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip with Win 8 (completely hooks into your system BIOS / Boot) which can completely lock down your entire system from boot level making it a brick. The germans originally thought this was linked into a remote access device for the NSA to control. “It’s a backdoor!” scream the conspiracy theorists. The issue I have with it, is try to downgrade or change your Operating System to a different one such as iOS or Linux... you actually need to hack it or Win 8 won't reconise it as a legal OS and consider it a security risk overwriting it's BOOT - even an offical Windows 7 or older Windows disc it will be refused from changing your Win 8 back! They did this to protect from malicous attacks, but it's still a pure evil restriction.

Then on top of that - Microsoft charges for any downgrades on new purchased pcs and then asserts that it's not obligated to support any of those downgraded systems.

The WEI was included to ascertain how well your system would run Windows with Aero and nothing more. Threads like this always devolve into what direction you are now taking this thread into. This thread is now locked because it is neither helping anybody nor does it have any relevance for anybody looking to buy new or upgrade an existing computer.