Hi, My system specs are; Asus PC-DL Deluxe mobo Dual matched Xeon 2.66Ghz procs Hyper Threading Enabled 2Gigs DDR 333 Dual Channel Memory ATI HD3650 AGP 512Meg DDR2 Graphics 200Gig UDMA 5 SATA HD OS Windows 7 Home Premium and PRO editions Home Premium only supports 1 CPU Pro Supports Multi CPU's as a test I ran windows experience on basic installations of both versions with H.T on and off + catalyst 9.8 Hotfix drivers. Premium first; CPU: 3.7 Memory: 4.4 Aero Graphics 4.8 3D Graphics 6.1 Hard Disk 5.4 No difference with H.T on or off or 4Gig ReadyBoost drive Pro: CPU: 4.6 Memory: 4.6 Aero Graphics 4.8 3D Graphics 6.1 Hard Disk 5.4 No difference with H.T on or off or 4Gig ReadyBoost drive So in my humble opinion windows experience does not give a true reflection of a systems capabilities..........
I'm shooting for the lowest score : 3.7 This is with a quad core running @ 3.6 ghz. I could care less about graphics, 3d gaming and have an old $20 video card. However I have a $150 ASIO soundcard that can stream bit perfect digital audio, that doesn't count at all in the score (not an easy task under MS OS's). Its kind of a silly rating system. Build the computer you need instead of using MS criteria.
I installed win7 RTM x64 onto a decent PC from 2007, and after doing some driver updates, it refuses to run the windows preformance test, giving an error saying the index score could not be computed. I checked google, and someone suggested doing a checkdisk /f, but that didn't resolve the issue for me. Any ideas what could be causing the test to fail?