What is your Windows Experience Rating?

If you use Vista you can find out by right clicking my computer, selecting properties and clicking on Windows Experience Index.



My rams rating could be 5.9 however the FSB on the E4500 is quite low (Overclocked to 266 FSB)

 

It’s not possible to do this under XP, at the moment its only possible in Vista.

Basically before you get a rating a series of tests are run on your computer which test your processor, ram, graphics card and hard drives. The better these each component scores the higher the rating given. You are then given a base score which is determined by the lowest performing component.

I think the intended use for this was to originally have a Windows Experience rating on boxs for games and software. People would then be able to go in to a shop and know instantly if the game would work on their pc just by looking at the rating it requires. I don’t think that really happened though.

The system is a bit flawed if you ask me, as Safinn pointed out the best score you can currently get is 5.9 however old hardware such as the Geforce 7900GT gets rated 5.9 as does the new top of the range Geforce 280 series cards.

It needs a bit of work but for people who know nothing about the hardware in their computer it will give them a basic idea if a game will work on their system or not.

Have a look at this link it explains the system very well.

 

Best yet Kingz you will be all 5.9 with a Raid 0 array for your primary hard drive.

 

This Wikipedia article explains it in a lot more detail: RAID - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia but basically depending on the setup you use raid can be used to increase read/write speeds by saving your data on multiple hard disks (raid 0) or for mirroring you data to another hard drive to protect you against hard disk failure (raid 1)

You need at least two hard drives the same to set it up and you would have to re install windows if you wished to use the array as your primary hard drive, you will get a performance increase form raid 0 however if one hard drive ever failed you would lose the data on both hard drives so be sure to backup!

 

Backups Safinn it never hurts to make them! I found that out for myself many years ago unfortunately, now I try to backup my documents often.

 

Not bad at all for a second pc.

Here is my super 32 core quantum computer with 64GB of ram rating



Yes its fake but you have all seen my real rating anyway

 

Thats exactly what I did kind of pointless as it’s not going to make your pc any faster.