Windows 7: Windows Experience Index

Windows 7: New Windows Experience Index (WEI).



After nearly a week of using the pre-beta PDC release of Windows 7, I’m starting to notice the little things. Like this:

See that number in the lower right corner? In Windows Vista, the maximum value for any subscore is 5.9. Clearly the scale is now higher, as that 6.3 (solid-state drives are fast) indicates.

So how high is the upper limit? If you’re running the pre-beta Windows 7 build, share your Windows Experience Index scores in the comments.



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Later Ted

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

Any strange quirky issues? Did they allow you to run WinFS instead of NTFS?

I wish they based it around the minimal required hardware = 1.0. Then, a 2.0 means your 2x the performance of minimal required.

I wonder what my SAS RAID 128MB cached PCIe x8 controller and RAID 1 Savvio drives will come in at with a SSD drive at 6.3.