Your Windows Experience Index Score

[crenn]

Wait a bit, the SanDisk SSDs are coming out and they're pricing seems to be getting close to VERY affordable, not quite there yet!

http://driveyourlaptop.com/

[The boy 4rm oz]

I have been looking into the SSDs and it seems that the only ones worth getting are the Intel ones, the other brands can be beaten by a standard mechanical drive. I will settle for a 74GB raptor I think, if I can find one lol. I still have a while to think about it, SSDs lose performance over time and need to be formatted frequently to stay at optimum performance, I am looking for a plug in and walk away drive lol.

[Vitz¥^]

What hard drive gives you a 5.9?

Probably a 10k-15k rpm drive with big cache.

yup

[The boy 4rm oz]

A raptor or a Samsung Spinpoint F1 should give you around that also, so will an SSD.

[TheGreatSatan]

SSD's can wait a couple years when they're as expensive as regular drives

[XcOM]

i fudged my score when i had vista installed, i tricked it into saying i had a score of 8!

shame i haven't got a print screen,

howto:

1) Navigate to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore
2) You should see a .xml file with date&time as filename
3) Right-click it and select 'open with>' 'Wordpad' (Not notepad!)
4) On line 12, you should see something like the following:

< -SystemScore ->8.8< /SystemScore >
< -MemoryScore ->8.8< /MemoryScore >
< -CpuScore ->8.8< /CpuScore >
< -CPUSubAggScore ->8.8< /CPUSubAggScore >
< -VideoEncodeScore ->8.8< /VideoEncodeScore >
< -GraphicsScore ->8.9< /GraphicsScore >
< -GamingScore ->8.8< /GamingScore >
< -DiskScore ->8.8< /DiskScore >

5)The score i marked red above is your current rating score
6) Now modify any score you want according to it's section.
7) Save it.

Now have a look on your latest rating score!

[The boy 4rm oz]

HAHA, trust XcOM to find a way around the Vista score lol.

[TheGreatSatan]

+Rep for sure. That is funny


EDIT:

It won't let me save the file.

[XcOM]

you need to open the file with admin privilages, ie start notepad in admin mode, you might even need to load in safe mode, but as far as i can rem its just admin needed to do it

HAHA, trust XcOM to find a way around the Vista score lol.

trust me, if windows isn't supposed to do it, i can more than likely get it to work, i was known at school and most previous jobs and the computer god.

Mainly because i can edit the windows code (Kernel included)

[crenn]

Xcom, put the hex editor down and step away from the assembly.