Whats Your Vista "Windows Experience" rating?

[AudioFreak 10+ year member]

Im runnin 64bit on a HP Slimline with 4gigs ram i have no problems i did have a gateway laptop runnin 32bit and never had a problem also

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

Im runnin 64bit on a HP Slimline with 4gigs ram i have no problems i did have a gateway laptop runnin 32bit and never had a problem also

not having a problem is not what we are saying.

My professor just ordered some dell laptops with XP pro downgrades on them, and it has 4gig installed, but only 3gig is recognized. sure it isn't a "problem" but its kinda a waste to have ram just sitting there

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

not having a problem is not what we are saying.
My professor just ordered some dell laptops with XP pro downgrades on them, and it has 4gig installed, but only 3gig is recognized. sure it isn't a "problem" but its kinda a waste to have ram just sitting there

Exactly, I mean, it will use the 3 gigs so that is great rather than 2 gigs, but too bad you have to wast the last gig.

 

[delvryboy 5,000+ posts]

With ram running

When I was running x86 I got a big improvement from 2gb to 4gb.

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

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

32-bit Windows applications have a 2 GB address limit. If you use a truly 64-bit application, it should be able to use more than 2 GB.
Of course, finding a true 64-bit app is pretty difficult. Only one that I'm aware of is Adobe's CS4.

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

32-bit Windows applications have a 2 GB address limit. If you use a truly 64-bit application, it should be able to use more than 2 GB.
Of course, finding a true 64-bit app is pretty difficult. Only one that I'm aware of is Adobe's CS4.

Matlab and Mathematica have 64-bit versions, there are a fair amount of 64-bit apps.

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

3.0

all are mid 5's except i use onboard graphics so that brings it down

 

[multimaster 10+ year member]

4.6 laptop

 

[Ignatowski 5,000+ posts]

I cant figure the dam thing out........It says I am 4.8 rating,but I need more ram

so I go to the store and order up some ram,now I have 6gigs of ram and my score is exactly the same.........

I could use some help here as i am 5.7 or higher on every other catagory except ram

and I have plenty of ram

 

[dumple 5,000+ posts]

fugg fista

 

[PollyCranopolis 10+ year member]

I got a 4.7 on the Compag Presario I bought my mom for Christmas. Not bad for a 64X2 @ 2ghz, 2gb, 8200m with Vista Premium. My crappy home desktop with a Athlon 3000+, 1gb ram and FX 5200 scored a little under 2.5 I think..

 

[PollyCranopolis 10+ year member]

I cant figure the dam thing out........It says I am 4.8 rating,but I need more ramso I go to the store and order up some ram,now I have 6gigs of ram and my score is exactly the same.........

I could use some help here as i am 5.7 or higher on every other catagory except ram

and I have plenty of ram

I've noticed that the score seems to to coincide with your lowest rating. Eg. If your lowest rating is video capability, (5.0) then your Vista score would be 5.0. Your best bet in this case is to get a better vidya card. 8800's are cheap right now. Found one for $75 the other day.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

I've noticed that the score seems to to coincide with your lowest rating. Eg. If your lowest rating is video capability, (5.0) then your Vista score would be 5.0. Your best bet in this case is to get a better vidya card. 8800's are cheap right now. Found one for $75 the other day.

You do realize that it says that your score is determined by your lowest subscore right below your rating right?

 

[PollyCranopolis 10+ year member]

You do realize that it says that your score is determined by your lowest subscore right below your rating right?

Yes.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

Yes.

Good think you noticed that then