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Ryan Wagner

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Re: What is Your Windows Experience Index?
« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2007, 11:53:28 AM »
Wowsers, I didn't realize that they planned on having the score increase as more hardware comes out. So I bet initially the max was 5 and then more stuff started to come out before the release of Vista so it is slowly creeping up to 6. I looked in the help section for the score and it said anything above 5 basically means you're running the latest and greatest.
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Re: What is Your Windows Experience Index?
« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2007, 12:30:34 PM »
I am curious as to what type and how much RAM you have on your system Ryan.
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Re: What is Your Windows Experience Index?
« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2007, 04:14:41 PM »
What's the WEI all about? Is it just stats or does it have a purpose?
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Re: What is Your Windows Experience Index?
« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2007, 04:38:20 PM »
I am curious as to what type and how much RAM you have on your system Ryan.

2GB Corsair Memory XMS2 DDr2-800


What's the WEI all about? Is it just stats or does it have a purpose?

It is kinda just for stats right now, but computer games and such can set a minimum WEI that is required in order to play a game. So I guess it might have a use.
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Re: What is Your Windows Experience Index?
« Reply #19 on: February 04, 2007, 05:00:31 PM »
That is why you have the higher score...Corsair memory at a higher clock rate.  Mine is Corsair but PC 3200 at 400 Mhz.

WEI is just a simple scale for common users to gauge what type programs their system can run.
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Re: What is Your Windows Experience Index?
« Reply #20 on: February 04, 2007, 07:45:59 PM »
The intended purpose of it is basically yea to make games easier to buy and stuff. Instead of looking at the bottom of the box on a game to read the minimum system requirements, since some people don't know what hardware is in their system anyway, they can just look at the windows score on the box. If your windows score is at least this then you can run this game.
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Re: What is Your Windows Experience Index?
« Reply #21 on: February 04, 2007, 09:21:18 PM »
Great way to put it xpgeek, I could (and did not) not have said it better!
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Re: What is Your Windows Experience Index?
« Reply #22 on: February 04, 2007, 10:52:30 PM »
My score is 4.5 because my RAM is low.  I only have 1 Gig stick of DDR2 800 PC6400 RAM but I'm adding another stick soon.  When I do, I'm assuming my score will reach above 5 as the rest of my scores are above 5.
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Re: What is Your Windows Experience Index?
« Reply #23 on: February 05, 2007, 10:50:39 AM »
Sounds pretty clever. Microsoft are having some good ideas these days. Its just a shame about the delivery!
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