Whats Your Vista "Windows Experience" rating?

[delvryboy 5,000+ posts]

4.1 here, got another 2 gig of ram on the way... plenty for eveything i do
this thing is bogus, it goes by your lowest score, everything else I have is 5.4+ and b/c i only have a 512 video card it gives me a 4.1..... gay

What does a 512mb video card have to do with anything? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[sickskillz14 10+ year member]

Got a 5.9

Specs:

Intel E8500 3.16Ghz (OC to 4.2 Ghz)

4GB G.Skill (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066Mhz

EVGA GTX 260 Core 216 (OC)

Seagate 320GB, 160GB

Western Digital 80GB

 

[Rusty...WCA 10+ year member]

Im not a computer wiz but so far I have not had any issues with vista

 

[lil_italy773 10+ year member]

5.9And only issues I have has with Vista is the sound card compatability, I put in 4 gig of ram and the sound goes freaking haywire, take a stick out and its fine.

vista 32bit will read 2 gigs after that its just a waste im running 4 gigs but i also have vista 64 and will except 4 gigs on my laptop

 

[Unholysavage 10+ year member]

5.6

my oc'd e6300 (@3.1ghz) is the only thing bringing my score down.

weird enough, my graphics were at 5.9 with my 8800GTS, too bad they haven't upgraded the benchmarks to use the new cards which are much faster. because my oc'd GTX260 Core 216 is 20x faster than the old 8800....and of course still at 5.9.

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

3.0 on my laptop, like i posted before, 5.6 on my desktop. The integrated graphics on my laptop is what is bringing it down, everything else is above a 4.8.

 

[x2o 10+ year member]

vista 32bit will read 2 gigs after that its just a waste im running 4 gigs but i also have vista 64 and will except 4 gigs on my laptop

This is incorrect as far as I can find, Vista 32 bit will read up to "4GB", and vista 64 bit depending on the version reads up to "8GB" on home basic, "16GB" on home premium, and "128GB" on the rest.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_vista

 

[RKPsk8er 10+ year member]

4.8 on laptop

 

[lil_italy773 10+ year member]

This is incorrect as far as I can find, Vista 32 bit will read up to "4GB", and vista 64 bit depending on the version reads up to "8GB" on home basic, "16GB" on home premium, and "128GB" on the rest.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_vista

i read this on a geek forums and many have tryed thats where i got that info from they were talking bout so-dimm not desk top thats the dif

 

[lil_italy773 10+ year member]

running vista 64 with 4 gigs of ram on a LAPTOP 5.9 ram, it flys with converting movies. my CL is 4-4-4-12 not standard 5

kingston hyper x = FTW

 

[murderedtahoe 10+ year member]

been running vista since first release date no problems at all!

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

This is incorrect as far as I can find, Vista 32 bit will read up to "4GB", and vista 64 bit depending on the version reads up to "8GB" on home basic, "16GB" on home premium, and "128GB" on the rest.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_vista

32-bit will read 4GB, but it cannot use it because it can only address 4GB. Here is a good explanation of it http://www.maximumpc.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=71236

 

[bw_audio 10+ year member]

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[Jmac 10+ year member]

5.9

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

32-bit will read 4GB, but it cannot use it because it can only address 4GB. Here is a good explanation of it http://www.maximumpc.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=71236

Picture should be flipped upside down though, it starts with the highest address, which is the "bottom" of memory.

OS/Kernel takes the top.

something else very interesting is the 64 bit os's can address alot more memory, but the OS ensures that it is only allocated in blocks that can be addressed in 32bit registers, in case truncation occurs.

I just finished a research project on this for my Operating systems class.

here is an excerpt from my presentation notes

Virtual Memory

XP Pro uses 4kb pages

32Bit systems limited to 4GB virtual address space

2GB User Applications

2GB System Applications

All memory onboard is included, even video card.

64bit systems can address up to 8 terabytes of space

Although 8TB of space is addressable, the system insures that every memory allocation is under 2GB

Virtual Memory

64 Bit Virtual Memory Issues

Pointers are 64 bit, but the system will only allow up to 2GB because if a 64 bit pointer is truncated at 32bits the data is not lost

64 Bit XP main memory published limit is 128GB, although some packaging states 16GB is the limit and some users state problems with more than 16gb main memory