Windows Experience Index: Show Off Your Scores

For Vista and Win7 users,  Pls post your WEI scores here,

Mine is 2.5

this is my config today

i am thinking of stickying this thread so i can do shakara - all things being equal, thre weeks from now, i will get my new laptop, a thinkpad w700 with a 2.8ghz core2duo, a solidstae 80gb hard drive and a 7200rpm 500gb drive - and i will add a third 500gb 5400rpm drive to the ultra bay, a 1gb nvidia quadro fx3700M card, 4gb ddr3 ram

yea, i am thinking of upgrading the machine to windows7. Just that my work schedule is so tight to permit it.

i know - big grr - core i7 was not available as a spec when i ordered

it seems there are now directx11 capable cards for that matter

on the plus side, it appears that with modern mobile workstations , you can actually swap graphics cards , and processors - though its a little more difficult than your regular ram/hard disk swap/upgrade

@ tex

bros how far,  where is yur WEI score??


@ oyb

actually tex is right. direct x11 gpus are not due till next year

although i hear a rumor about an ati gpu Radeon 5000 series

which is direct x11 compartiable

just looked at yur specs now,  you are not running a 64bit OS,  how come?? a full bros like you

i know that feeling. its just in a very blue moon that i use my dvd drive, and thats just when i have to burn some music . i guess one still needs it as per recovery disc issues , though if its about full installs, there are now like 3 or so utilities on the web that allow you to turn your flash drive into  windows 7 installer. who knows, maybe someone has figured out how to do it with the windows 7 recovery disc.

reminds me of when i wanted to first test windows 7. i decided to install it on my old laptop, which has a half dead optical drive. eventually i copied the iso, installed alcohol, mounted, started the install from within windows, and crossed my fingers (if it had failed - the laptop would essentially have bricked - no way to install an Os on it from disc, and no way to get ino windows, which would have nbeen deleted by the setup files 


@ moonraker,

no mind me o, na the fear of compatibility gragra

while there is a lot more 64 bit support than before,

the issues for me are

1) no native vba support. apparently anything vba will run through an emulation layer. which will lead to slow downs. not good for me , because i use visual basic alot -i have downloaded vbscripts on my system that  i use to create restore points, switch windows, hide/unhide hidden files, i have vba addons i use in microsoft office and autocad. alot of developers are actually migrating to vb.net, and that may be one of the reasons. apparently powershell may be able to do some of the stuff i use those vbscripts for, but i havent gotten round to exploring it.

2) ditto for the fact that some apps/addons  i use have no 64 bit versions - and running them may be hit and miss - never mind what ms says to the contrary. migration often means giving up some stuff, though.

3) the usual - migration will be a BITCH. i have seriously been contemplating moving to 64 bit, but i cannot begin to calculate the amount of stuff i will have to download - 64 bit drivers, 64 bit versions of so much of the software i use which may easily come to 30 to 40gb 

the other thing i'm contemplating is trying something i read about and actually posted a topic on. it appears that 32 bit is not physically limited form 4gb and above, but by licensing. i have downloaded the tools that are supposed to make it work. na kernal patch sha. theres another way it has been run, but that is er . . .you copy some files from server 2008 and replace the equivalenst in windows. you must have a server 2008 key to do this. i will just try it for like a week after i get my system. if there are any major issues i will reinstall sharp sharp.

The WEI on my Hp dv6000 special edition laptop is 3.4. I'll be posting screenshots l8r.

Gurus, Is the WEI on a pc permanent or does it increase when u update your windows?

^^^^

it will only increase when you update your hardware - and thats just a maybe

that is 90% true. The WEI is determined by how eaisily your operating system can communicate with the particular hardware in question.  That is the reason why i would agree with this also because an update may just increase the ease of communication. You may wish to view http://runitecomputer.blogspot.com/2009/10/introduction-windows-experience-index.htm for more details

@ tex

was just abt to state that,

^^^^^^





er the thread title is 'show off your scores'

. . .and thats my Score 

Yes, I get Mouth ! 

NOPE,

The shot wat taken second after the WIN7 complete Installation .

So, wat are u guys talking !?

Guess Windows Update will do dat ?