I thought it would be fun if there was a topic where you could show off your computer specs and your Windows Experience Index.. so I started this topic.

I'll start with mine:

Mine is around 4, i can't calculate it because fonts disappeared in Win8 CP. Anyway here are my specs:
AMD Athlon x2 64 2.00 GHz 3000+
2.00 Gb RAM DDR400
512 Mb Geforce 9400 GT
500 Gb 7200 RPM Hitachi, SATA2

I don't know but maybe it's even lower.

Laptop:

I don't think it's fair that HDD's can't score higher than 5.9.. So you need to have a (very expensive) SSD to score 6 or higher

Single core sandy bridge Celeron (they didn't have G530 in stock when I bought it)

My 15k SAS drive is still limited to 5.9, even tried a RAID0 setup once with the same results. Can actually tell its a lot faster in real world usage though, but noisy as hell.

Twin Xeon quad-cores
16GB FBDDR2
FirePro V3750
Total cost about £350

Woohoo! lowest a.t.m.



Still hoping my laptop (Acer TravelMate 5730) dies soon but it wont't so there is no real reason to buy a new one... From the 2 laptops I bought new (first one was a Toshiba Satellite Pro L10) this Acer is the most reliable. Although thanks to the support from Acer I won't buy anything from Acer again...

Actually, there was a Celeron earlier that's a lot slower than your system. A Core 2 Duo isn't all that old.

It's not slow at all (not for what I do with it) but since the update to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 it is not that quick anymore in exporting 10MB RAW images and since i'm planning to buy a new camera which produces bigger RAW files a better PC with more power would be nice. But as long as this Acer lives I won't buy another laptop.

And about the "lowest" score I could take my old 2nd hand P4 laptop, last time with Windows 7 starter I had an index of 1 but that was because the display driver had compatibility issues (Old Intel chip without Vista/7 drivers).

The lowest (my netbook):

Laptop:


Desktop:


Can't seem to find a way to get a WEI off my server... but it'd score a 1.0 or less on everything.

This is my recently built rig for games, video editing, programming and of course beta testing

Processor: 7.6
Memory (RAM): 7.6
Graphics: 7.8
Gaming Graphics 7.8
Primary hard disk: 7.9
Overall: 7.6

Specs:
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.8GHZ
Asrock 970 Extreme4
8GB Patriot G2 AMD Black Edition 1600MHZ
Patriot Pyro 60GB (Boot)
500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12
AMD Radeon 6870 1GB OC

Before this I was running on a Core2 laptop with integrated graphics , major step up in every way
Unfortunately can't take screenshot cos of my broken windows 7 install, but here is a screenshot as proof of my specs:

How is it possible that you get a 7.9 for that HDD? I'm using a WD caviar black 1TB HDD and it barely scores a 5.9 ?!

That may be his Patriot Pyro 60GB (Boot).

of course, he boots from a SSD! very smart

I need a new laptop or desktop.

Yes, most SSD's today score 7.9, and it's pretty stupid that microsoft limited hdd's to 5.9, because i'm pretty sure newer 7.2krpm hdds and WD raptors could get up to 6.9ish.

Mechanical HDDs are not limited to 5.9, they just do not have enough performance to beat 5.9

I've seen only twice, 2 x 1TB Mechanical HDDs in RAID 0 manage a 6.0

Actually, it is limited to 5.9, and only RAID 0 HDD's are limited to 6.0 as you said, see here:
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/confused-with-the-scores-for-primary-hard-disk-of/4eaef6b3-6135-49c9-95a5-59c9658612fe

It is possible to hack your score