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Vista had a top score of 5.9.
this was my old setup,
and the same setup with Windows 7
And with my i7 Setup,
Q6600 gets a 7.3 and the i7 gets a 7.5 and the i7 is much much faster than my Q6600.
I wouldn't get hung up about the WEI.
If it works on vista, chances are it works on 7.
And RAID can't push your WEI score above 5.9. I had a RAID 0 config before and messing with the WEI logs it deemed the performance justifiable enough for a 7.0+ (Read/Write), but nevertheless it's a 5.9.
Arkhi and Bill, thanks for the update on hard drive performance in terms of measuring a computer's WEI as it's something I wasn't aware of.
If existing hard drives are the bottleneck throttling system performance I can see why people are switching to solid-state drives.
Hey seavixen32. No problem :) Existing Hard Drives aren't really much of a bottle neck as long as you got the right ones. Thing is, MS deemed that only SSDs are worthy enough of a score higher than 5.9. SSDs are just too expensive IMHO. I prefer a Hybrid Drive (which is what I have) since it has the best of both worlds.
You can take a look of your HDD score at
Note the values under WinSAT>Metrics>Disk Metrics. Be surprised.C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore\YYYY-DD-YY HH.MM.SS.MS Disk.Assessment (Recent).WinSAT.xml
I found this article that does some benchmarks.
It looks like they are pretty much the same but with Vista perfroming at the CPU minisculely better, and the Win7 performing at the VGA minisculely better.
It doesn't look like there's a reason for the 5.9 vs 7.9 difference. I did some research and those are the upper limits of the Windows Experience Index rating. It's prolly just some Microsoft marketing thing where they add in 2 points or whatever for "subjective user experience" with the new product. I bet Windows 8 cap will be like 9.9 or something...then 11.9...or they will come out with a completely difference useless rating.
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/28...son/index.html
5.9 is the highest possible score on Vista, and I believe 7.9 is the highest score possible on 7. If you see 5.9 on Vista and say 7.2 on 7, that doesn't mean it's performing better in 7, it's just the limitations of the WEI in Vista. Think back to late 2006 when Vista RTM'd. Achieving 5.9's across the board back then was virtually unheard of.