Windows experience index
why did Microsoft have to chance theWindows experience index? it bothers me.all of my indexes improve except my hard drive one. its weird and i have shared graphics. you would think shared graphics would go down not up...processor goes from 5.1 to 5.3RAM goes from 4.7 to 5.3graphics goes from 3.5 to 3.6gaming graphics goes from 3.1 to 3.2 hard disk goes from 5.1 to 3.0 (what a drop)[i have a 1.16Ghz dual cure processor with 6MB of L2 cache][i have 4GB of DDR2 667MHz SD RAM][i have like up to 256MB of shared graphics but vista oddly gives me more][i have a 250GB hard rive]does anyone know how this stuff is rated.i would like to know other people's computer's specs and scoresso that we can compare.this would be a good thing to know.i'm only asking because i heard that a lot of peoples scores dropped.and who knows the final release may drop even more...loli think i may just still have good scores because my PC was vista certified a year before vista was released...lol my tablet PC is still supported and at times they are still making software and hardware updates for it.i just hope you guys will post yourWindows experience index from vista and Windows 7 beta 1 so that we can all compare them... and what we think of them.
January 20th, 2009 12:59am

Hi Steven There is an excellent article written by the Windows 7 Development Team on the following website that should answer all of these questions and more.Windows 7 Experience IndexHope this helps. Ronnie Vernon MVP
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January 20th, 2009 1:46am

i already read it, but thanks. i iposted this for users opinions and whatnot. so that we could compare our scores together and stuff and start a conversation about it. and to see who is testing Windows 7 on great PCs and to see who is testing Windows 7 on really bad PCs. for all i know Windows 7 might give better scores than vista in a sence...lol at least for older PCs....
January 20th, 2009 1:58am

StevenThanks for the feedback, I'm sure this thread will attract a lot of attention as this is a popular subject.Be sure to read all of the comments under that article. The author is answering specific questions there about the scores on hard drives.Regards, Ronnie Vernon MVP
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January 20th, 2009 2:05am

oh ok. good to know.
January 20th, 2009 2:34am

DO not listen to the moderators of the site. This is a bug in windows 7. Disabling write caching will improve your score. I only found out about this fix from somebody else. I had the exact problem and disabling write caching helped.
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January 20th, 2009 4:17am

i know it helps. i think that WEI should run the testshould run the test for the hard drive once with the cache enabled and then again with the cache disabled.then it should show both HDD scores and the average. do you think thats a good idea? that way the results are more acurate.The average of the two scores will be the big number which will be used towards the WEI perforence. and the benchmark results (not the average) will appear to the left of the average of them. do you guys think this sounds like a good idea?
January 20th, 2009 4:35am

Hey..Steven,I also have same problem.With Vista Ultimate my WEI was 4.1 , lawest with Aero performance.Now with Windows 7 it goes to 3.0, lawest with Hard Drive Performance.I also have posted this que. here,Windows Experience Index DecreasedRegards,Dave Bhavesh
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January 20th, 2009 8:08am

Users with Intel chipsets have reported the WEI drive score returning to normal after they installed the "Intel Matrix Storage Manager".
January 20th, 2009 10:11am

If disabling write caching improves performance, your drive's write caching algorithm needs help. Write caching is supposed to increase performance, not decrease it.As the referenced article noted, driver firmware updates can sometimes correct errors in the write caching algorithm.That said, my disk rating went from a 5.1 to a 3.0, and yet the OS is overall more responsive than in Vista. So maybe this rating is overly sensitive.
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January 20th, 2009 10:48am

One thing I should also note is that I've had a few "abnormal" runs with the WEI, where I got really bad ratings -- e.g. a CPU rating of 2.2, Memory rating of 1.9 etc. Rerunning the test yielded "normal" results of 5.8 for processor and memory both (which is about where they were in Vista -- memory actually went up.)I have no idea what caused the low rating; I wasn't running any other software at the time. Chalking it up to a fluke for now.
January 20th, 2009 10:50am

the installation ofIntel Matrix Storage Manager under Windows 7 does sound like a good idea. it might help. thanks. for the idea weef... HP provides me this software for vista and XP. i hope it installs on Windows 7.and texas viking i agree with you certain scores may be a fluke in a way or slightly flawed. hopefully they will be fixed mmore so in beta 2.in my opinion they should run different types of tests for different types of HDDs. and then run the usual test that they have now... this way they can compare hard drives better. if they test the HDDs by catagories the results and tests may be better.the catagories will be as like the following:-PATA-SATA-SATA 2-SSDthen there will be the hard drive configurations and whatnot:-IDE-SCSIof course then there will be more catagories of hard drives and more hard drive configurations...as you can probably tell, i am not listing them all....i am only thinking of these ideas because i want WEI to get better.so please tell me what you guys think of my ideas.
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January 20th, 2009 6:36pm

One of the reasons the drive scores have dropped is due to the fact you now have things like SSD's to take into consideration, ive never run Vista on my PC. Its never going to be put onto this PC, so i cant compare a Win 7 score with a Vista score, however, i have noticed on a few machines that HDD score has dropped, almost always to 2.0 Personally this doesnt bother me, the entire OS feels more responsive than XP, and its definately more resposive than vista. In a real world situation, even though my HDD is rated at 2.0 my games are running faster and smoother than under XP. And that is whith a SATA Drive 80Gb 8Mb cache, my usual Gaming Drive is 500Gb SATA II with 32Mb cache. but this one hasnt been rated, as it still has XP on it.
January 20th, 2009 7:15pm

I used to have a zd8000 and the odd thing was that it ran vista beta 1 better than XP MCE. i think it was because of its graphics card... i only started using vista recently. i used it more in its beta versions... one reason was that none of the software that i had worked under vista even when it was vista certified. a lot of software at times just seems to work better in the beta. thats how vista was. i hope microsoft will do better with Windows 7.i think its a good thing that you never used vista. i tried to skip vista as long as i could. i knew there would be something better. so far i like the batter life in improvements in Windows 7. Windows 7 improves my notebook's battery life by about an hour. and i already have an 16 hour battery life. i think a battery life thing for notebooks should be added to WEI for Windows 7. wouldn't that be nice?
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January 20th, 2009 7:47pm

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