Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and processor
jumped to 5.3.




I was just wondering why that would happen?
I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card

Damn. I know the answer but you only want MVP's to reply. Oh well.



"Mr. Jon Pope" <mrjonpope@newsgroup> wrote in message
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>
> Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
> Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and processor
> jumped to 5.3.
>
>
> I was just wondering why that would happen?
> I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:38:42 -0700, "Mr. Jon Pope" <mrjonpope@newsgroup>
wrote:

> Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
> Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and processor
> jumped to 5.3.
>
>
> I was just wondering why that would happen?
> I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card

My advice is to ignore the Windows Experience Index. In my experience,
it's extremely misleading. One of the reasons for that is that it's
completely ignorant of, and therefore ignores, what you do with your
computer. For example, a high video score may be very important to
someone playing computer games, but be almost completely meaningless
to someone who does word processing.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@newsgroup> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:38:42 -0700, "Mr. Jon Pope" <mrjonpope@newsgroup>
> wrote:
>

>> Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was
>> 5.0
>> Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and
>> processor
>> jumped to 5.3.
>>
>>
>> I was just wondering why that would happen?
>> I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card

>
>
> My advice is to ignore the Windows Experience Index. In my experience,
> it's extremely misleading. One of the reasons for that is that it's
> completely ignorant of, and therefore ignores, what you do with your
> computer. For example, a high video score may be very important to
> someone playing computer games, but be almost completely meaningless
> to someone who does word processing.
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup

It's just measurements of various aspects of the machine's performance,
perhaps not very useful but hardly misleading unless you are saying the
values are wrong. Surely it's for the user to judge given the
individual figures and the type of use to be made of the PC. That
judgement is likely to have been already made, I don't play computer
games so I don't specify a high end video card. More detail or
targetted benchmarks would be better but I can't see why anyone who had
actually looked at the scores and knew what was important to them should
be misled.

The OP had noticed a change and was interested in a likely cause - I
haven't got an answer either.

Tom

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:30:29 +0100, "Tom Allen" <me8@newsgroup> wrote:

>
>"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@newsgroup> wrote in message
>news:5es3d557anit022ga7gisk8vrod2qm6tuj@newsgroup

>> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:38:42 -0700, "Mr. Jon Pope" <mrjonpope@newsgroup>
>> wrote:
>>

>>> Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was
>>> 5.0
>>> Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and
>>> processor
>>> jumped to 5.3.
>>>
>>>
>>> I was just wondering why that would happen?
>>> I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card

Just my $0.02. I was an ATI involuntary beta tester for 7 years.
Awhile back, to install a Cintiq tablet, it required a video card with dual
outputs.
I was fed up with ATI. I installed a 8500GT 1 gig card. My WEI went from 2.0 to
4.x.

The WEI wasn't not my goal, but the drastic overall improvement was an
unexpected gift.
The change was from onboard graphics with maybe 256 mb to 1 gig dedicatedwith
a GPU.
I haven't needed any support or fixes from Nvidia. With ATI it was a daily
login to support until they quit replying.

I'd say WEI is just a number value to tell you what the percentage of all
components in the system are. And the fact that it's the LOWEST figure that
hands you the WEI, Is not how GOOD things, are but since it's tied to the
section dragging you down, in my case it was the dual core D CPU that was
dragging everything down.. THE WEI should be called 'how bad your machine
is...'

The fact that you can actually make the WEI values read what ever you want also
makes it a useless figure.

It is a useless tool and just forget about it. It misleads the user and is not at
all an accurate measurement of the performance of your computer

--
Peter

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"Mr. Jon Pope" <mrjonpope@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:Ojf50yiSKHA.764@newsgroup

> Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
> Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and processor jumped
> to 5.3.
>
>
> I was just wondering why that would happen?
> I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card

Originally Posted by Ken Blake, MVP

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:38:42 -0700, "Mr. Jon Pope" <mrjonpope@newsgroup>
wrote:

> Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
> Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and processor
> jumped to 5.3.
>
>
> I was just wondering why that would happen?
> I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card

My advice is to ignore the Windows Experience Index. In my experience,
it's extremely misleading. One of the reasons for that is that it's
completely ignorant of, and therefore ignores, what you do with your
computer. For example, a high video score may be very important to
someone playing computer games, but be almost completely meaningless
to someone who does word processing.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

+1 - although I am not an MVP and my answer probably does not qualify.

Thx for all the info

"Mr. Jon Pope" <mrjonpope@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:Ojf50yiSKHA.764@newsgroup

> Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
> Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and processor
> jumped to 5.3.
>
>
> I was just wondering why that would happen?
> I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card