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Windows Experience Index
Just been having a bit of a poke about in this Windows 7 Ultimate and came across the 'Windows Experience Index'.
It rates processor, RAM, graphics, gaming graphics and primary hard drive. At first I was a bit disappointed that my GTX970 had only scored 7.9 and puzzled as to why my SSD had rated even lower at 7.2 - I've gone through disc cleaning several times and there's never been anything to clean up, same for defragging. I can't imagine a solid state drive would ever need defragging, but Windows 7 offers the option, so I tried it.
Anyhow, a little reading later and I found that 7.9 is currently the highest possible score - the range is 1.0 to 7.9 - so the GTX970 is actually pushing the 'Windows Experience Index' envelope.
Processor - 7.3
RAM - 7.6
Graphics - 7.9
Gaming Graphics - 7.9
Primary hard drive - 7.2
So why is the SSD rated lower than graphics? I know I don't have the fastest CPU, so the 7.3 there is understandable; the machine is running on 8gb of RAM just now, but I have another 8gb stick to put in, so maybe that will improve the 7.6 rating there. Is there another kind of hard drive available that I missed when buying the parts, one that's faster or more efficient than the SSD?
I'm just puzzled because I thought I was being 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' and getting consumer 'state-of-the-art' components - especially graphics and SSD. Apparently got the graphics part right, but I seem to have fluffed it slightly with the hard drives (I can't imagine the SSHD would score higher if I swapped them over).
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Just been having a bit of a poke about in this Windows 7 Ultimate and came across the 'Windows Experience Index'.
It rates processor, RAM, graphics, gaming graphics and primary hard drive. At first I was a bit disappointed that my GTX970 had only scored 7.9 and puzzled as to why my SSD had rated even lower at 7.2 - I've gone through disc cleaning several times and there's never been anything to clean up, same for defragging. I can't imagine a solid state drive would ever need defragging, but Windows 7 offers the option, so I tried it.
Anyhow, a little reading later and I found that 7.9 is currently the highest possible score - the range is 1.0 to 7.9 - so the GTX970 is actually pushing the 'Windows Experience Index' envelope.
Processor - 7.3
RAM - 7.6
Graphics - 7.9
Gaming Graphics - 7.9
Primary hard drive - 7.2
So why is the SSD rated lower than graphics? I know I don't have the fastest CPU, so the 7.3 there is understandable; the machine is running on 8gb of RAM just now, but I have another 8gb stick to put in, so maybe that will improve the 7.6 rating there. Is there another kind of hard drive available that I missed when buying the parts, one that's faster or more efficient than the SSD?
I'm just puzzled because I thought I was being 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' and getting consumer 'state-of-the-art' components - especially graphics and SSD. Apparently got the graphics part right, but I seem to have fluffed it slightly with the hard drives (I can't imagine the SSHD would score higher if I swapped them over).
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