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Discussion in 'Windows Vista' started by Mr. Jon Pope, Oct 10, 2009.

  1. Mr. Jon Pope

    Mr. Jon Pope Guest

    Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
    Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and processor
    jumped to 5.3.


    I was just wondering why that would happen?
    I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card
     
  2. On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:38:42 -0700, "Mr. Jon Pope" <mrjonpope@cox.net>
    wrote:
    <!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
    > Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and processor
    > jumped to 5.3.
    >
    >
    > I was just wondering why that would happen?
    > I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->


    My advice is to ignore the Windows Experience Index. In my experience,
    it's extremely misleading. One of the reasons for that is that it's
    completely ignorant of, and therefore ignores, what you do with your
    computer. For example, a high video score may be very important to
    someone playing computer games, but be almost completely meaningless
    to someone who does word processing.

    --
    Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
    Please Reply to the Newsgroup
     
  3. Mr. Jon Pope wrote:<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
    > Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and
    > processor jumped to 5.3.
    >
    >
    > I was just wondering why that would happen?
    > I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->


    As Ken has already said, the Performance Index really isn't all that
    useful. However, if I were to offer a hypothesis, I'd have to surmise
    that the new video adapter relieved some of the load that the low end
    ATI adapter had placed on the CPU.

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  4. Tom Allen

    Tom Allen Guest

    "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
    news:5es3d557anit022ga7gisk8vrod2qm6tuj@4ax.com...<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:38:42 -0700, "Mr. Jon Pope" <mrjonpope@cox.net>
    > wrote:
    ><!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
    >> Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was
    >> 5.0
    >> Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and
    >> processor
    >> jumped to 5.3.
    >>
    >>
    >> I was just wondering why that would happen?
    >> I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
    >
    >
    > My advice is to ignore the Windows Experience Index. In my experience,
    > it's extremely misleading. One of the reasons for that is that it's
    > completely ignorant of, and therefore ignores, what you do with your
    > computer. For example, a high video score may be very important to
    > someone playing computer games, but be almost completely meaningless
    > to someone who does word processing.
    >
    > --
    > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
    > Please Reply to the Newsgroup<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->


    It's just measurements of various aspects of the machine's performance,
    perhaps not very useful but hardly misleading unless you are saying the
    values are wrong. Surely it's for the user to judge given the
    individual figures and the type of use to be made of the PC. That
    judgement is likely to have been already made, I don't play computer
    games so I don't specify a high end video card. More detail or
    targetted benchmarks would be better but I can't see why anyone who had
    actually looked at the scores and knew what was important to them should
    be misled.

    The OP had noticed a change and was interested in a likely cause - I
    haven't got an answer either.

    Tom
     
  5. On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:30:29 +0100, "Tom Allen" <me8@privacy.net> wrote:
    <!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    >
    >"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
    >news:5es3d557anit022ga7gisk8vrod2qm6tuj@4ax.com...<!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
    >> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:38:42 -0700, "Mr. Jon Pope" <mrjonpope@cox.net>
    >> wrote:
    >><!--coloro:darkred--><span style="color:darkred <!--/coloro-->
    >>> Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was
    >>> 5.0
    >>> Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and
    >>> processor
    >>> jumped to 5.3.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> I was just wondering why that would happen?
    >>> I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card<!--colorc--><!--/colorc--><!--colorc--><!--/colorc--><!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

    Just my $0.02. I was an ATI involuntary beta tester for 7 years.
    Awhile back, to install a Cintiq tablet, it required a video card with dual
    outputs.
    I was fed up with ATI. I installed a 8500GT 1 gig card. My WEI went from 2.0 to
    4.x.

    The WEI wasn't not my goal, but the drastic overall improvement was an
    unexpected gift.
    The change was from onboard graphics with maybe 256 mb to 1 gig dedicated with
    a GPU.
    I haven't needed any support or fixes from Nvidia. With ATI it was a daily
    login to support until they quit replying.

    I'd say WEI is just a number value to tell you what the percentage of all
    components in the system are. And the fact that it's the LOWEST figure that
    hands you the WEI, Is not how GOOD things, are but since it's tied to the
    section dragging you down, in my case it was the dual core D CPU that was
    dragging everything down.. THE WEI should be called 'how bad your machine
    is...'

    The fact that you can actually make the WEI values read what ever you want also
    makes it a useless figure.
     
  6. Peter Foldes

    Peter Foldes Guest

    It is a useless tool and just forget about it. It misleads the user and is not at
    all an accurate measurement of the performance of your computer

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    Peter

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    "Mr. Jon Pope" <mrjonpope@cox.net> wrote in message
    news:Ojf50yiSKHA.764@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
    > Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and processor jumped
    > to 5.3.
    >
    >
    > I was just wondering why that would happen?
    > I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
     
  7. whs

    whs Guest

    Ken Blake, MVP;1157738 Wrote: <!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:38:42 -0700, "Mr. Jon Pope" <mrjonpope@newsgroup>
    > wrote:<!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro--><!--coloro:darkred--><span style="color:darkred <!--/coloro-->
    > > > >
    > > > Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
    > > 5.0<!--coloro:darkred--><span style="color:darkred <!--/coloro-->
    > > > Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
    > > processor<!--coloro:darkred--><span style="color:darkred <!--/coloro-->
    > > > jumped to 5.3.
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > I was just wondering why that would happen?
    > > > I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card > > <!--colorc--><!--/colorc--><!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
    >
    >
    > My advice is to ignore the Windows Experience Index. In my
    > experience,
    > it's extremely misleading. One of the reasons for that is that it's
    > completely ignorant of, and therefore ignores, what you do with your
    > computer. For example, a high video score may be very important to
    > someone playing computer games, but be almost completely meaningless
    > to someone who does word processing.
    >
    > --
    > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
    > Please Reply to the Newsgroup<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->


    +1 - although I am not an MVP and my answer probably does not qualify.


    --
    whs
     
  8. Mr. Jon Pope

    Mr. Jon Pope Guest

    Thx for all the info

    "Mr. Jon Pope" <mrjonpope@cox.net> wrote in message
    news:Ojf50yiSKHA.764@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
    > Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and processor
    > jumped to 5.3.
    >
    >
    > I was just wondering why that would happen?
    > I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
     

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