Hardware Configuration for the Perfect 7.9 Windows 7 Score

kev s148 · 11 Nov 2009

the only thing that is leting my score down is my hard drive i might get another 1tb in the new year

najaboy · 12 Nov 2009

Mine is brought down by the GPU, but that's to be expected. I'm waiting for Nvidia to release the 300 series so I can see some apples to apples comparisons between it and AMD's 5xxx series.

The CPU sub-score kind of surprised me, as it's a core i7 975 OC'd to 4 GHz. Not too much of a difference, if any at all, from folks running 920s at lower clock speeds.

kev s148 · 12 Nov 2009

najaboy said:

Mine is brought down by the GPU, but that's to be expected. I'm waiting for Nvidia to release the 300 series so I can see some apples to apples comparisons between it and AMD's 5xxx series.

The CPU sub-score kind of surprised me, as it's a core i7 975 OC'd to 4 GHz. Not too much of a difference, if any at all, from folks running 920s at lower clock speeds.

i would have thought you would have got a 7.9 on your cpu and ram
iam geting the same score as you on a 920 oc to 3.6 and only 6 gig of ram

conomega · 03 Dec 2009

I'm running two Intel MLC 160GB drives in a RAID 0 using a 3ware 9550SX controller and I still didn't hit 7.9...I got a 7.8

CPU I have Dual Xeon Quad-Core's at 3GHz and that gave me 7.7

RAM I have 16 GB of DDR-2 800 and that gave me 7.7 which means speed is equally important to capacity b/c DDR-2 800 isn't blazing by todays standards

Video is nothing special using a 8800GTS 512 - 6.9 score but someone posted a lower score with a 260 which is weird, that is a better card.

Lens Pirate · 06 Dec 2009

7.9 is not easy to get. See system spec...but I run a Oc'd 920 with 12 gigs of RAM

Hardware Configuration for the Perfect 7.9 Windows 7 Score-wei.jpg

poin2 · 06 Dec 2009

kev s148 said:

the only thing that is leting my score down is my hard drive i might get another 1tb in the new year

If you really care about the score, it's about going to an SSD drive over something like size.

This is with an Intel X-25M G2 (which I have yet to update to the latest firmware):

Nemix · 07 Dec 2009

I read somewhere 5.9 is highest for Primary Hard Disk.

I've tried Vista and 7 on several different hard drives' (laptop and dekstop) and found the same 5.9 score.

Just remember, these scores can be changed via registry so don't trust anyone's post.

:)

bobtran · 07 Dec 2009

johngalt said:

See, except for the SSD (and that is not entirely ruled out yet) I will have a Core i7 machine with 8 (more than likely 12) GB onboard and already have dual GTX 260s - but the 260s show a very very low score for desktop applications. They are definitely Dx 10 cards and WDDM 1.1 compatible - but even with the WDDM 1.1 drivers I still only got a 6.4.

Ridiculous it seems.

That score for your dual 260's seems a little strange. I'm running dual 9800gt's and I am getting 7.2, I would have expected much better those cards.

Wordsworth · 07 Dec 2009

Processor: 7.5
Memory (RAM): 7.5
Graphics: 5.1
Gaming graphics: 6.4
Primary hard disk: 5.9

I really don't care about the scores but the difference between the gaming and desktop I found interesting. I would have thought they'd be in reverse given the intensity of graphics in games.

zac · 09 Dec 2009

Hi there i just finished building my first computer.
Im running windows 7 ultimate.
My cpu (intel Q9400 @2.667ghz) - 7.2
My G.skill ram (2 x 1 gb @ 1066mhz) - 5.5
MY graphics card (8800GT @ stock) - got 6.8 in both desktop performance and gaming.
and my HDD (fujitsu 1gb 7200rpm) - 4.4..
anyways in which i could get my score higher??. Even though im verry happy with my cpu score and surprised at my 8800GT it got a higher scre or equal to a friends GTX260 which was weird.