Why 5.3?

Droogie

Droogie

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Ok I have 4 GB of Dual Channel 900 MHz RAM, and the Windows Experience Index only gives it a 5.3? This is strange to me because I have a friend with 3 GB of 800 Mhz RAM and he got a 5.9. Not really a big deal, just kinda strange.
 
Try closing everything off and re-scanning the PC, it could even be motherboard controllers. DDR2 6400 RAM should score from 5.7 to 5.9.
 
Yea I've tried that, still 5.3 though. It's overclocked to 900 MHz, but if anything that should give it a better rating.
 
Timings. I see that your RAM is overclocked, so if you have the timings set to Auto then it's going to be pretty high, causing the memory bandwidth portion of the Vista base score to give you a 5.3.
 
my guess is its either what omega said with the timings or it could be the front side bus limiting your memory or something. you'd really need to look at both computers specs, what speeds they each run at, and what technologies they use. for instance hypertransport gives more memory bandwidth compared to FSB... but generally not a lot more just because the memory normally runs slower than either the FSB or hypertransport.
 
[-0MEGA-];1044906 said:
Timings. I see that your RAM is overclocked, so if you have the timings set to Auto then it's going to be pretty high, causing the memory bandwidth portion of the Vista base score to give you a 5.3.
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What would you suggest than? Putting the RAM back to stock settings, or changing the timings, if so what should I change it to?
 
I tried stock settings and still 5.3, anybody have any suggestions? Or does the Index rating really not matter that much.
 
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It doesn't mean much, but you could try this:

Open:

Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore

Right click on the XML file there and open with wordpad. Then where it says:

<MemoryScore>5.3<\MemoryScore>


Change it to:

<MemoryScore>5.9<\MemoryScore>

Now it will read as 5.9.
 
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