Saturday, September 15, 2012

Windows Experience Index - Windows 8

The WEI scoring system has changed a fair bit since it was introduced in Windows F^HVista and the version that's in Windows 8 extends the Windows Experience from a highest result of 7.9 (as per Windows 7) up to a top of 9.9.  Here's the link to my Windows 7 Experience Index post.

For a decent read about what the Windows Experience Index involves, have a read of this. It doesn't go into a lot of technical depth, however it is enlightening.

Now, I have a few computers here right now that I'm running Windows 8 on and below I've listed the scores as well as scores from other people's computers that I've been able to verify. I'm particularly interested in the HDD/SSD and RAM scores for use in regular daily office use. CPU usage is rarely ever an issue (on modern PCs), but more so as a comparison between tablets, ultrabooks, notebooks and desktops to see if one could be usable for extended periods.  The component/figure in bold is the base score (determined by the lowest subscore).  Also, as more figures are obtained, I'll add them to this table.

(If you want to send me details to add to this list, please send the following:
* Screen capture of Control Panel\System and Security\System
* Screen capture of Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Performance Information and Tools
* Screen Capture of Device Manager showing your HDDs (and highlighting the Primary HDD if you have more than 1 installed)
* A zipped HTML output from CPU-z
as all of the above give me the detail I need to complete this table.)

SystemComponentScore
Alan Burchill's Desktop
Win 8 Pro x64
CPU - Core i7 2700K @ 3.50GHz
RAM - 16GB RAM
Graphics - Unknown
Gaming Graphics - Unknown
Primary SSD - Intel X25-M 160 GB
7.9
7.9
7.5
7.5
7.6
Roy Adams' Dell M4700
Win 8 Pro x64
CPU - Core i7 3740QM @ 2.70GHz
RAM - GB RAM
Graphics - Intel HD 4000
Gaming Graphics -Intel HD 4000
Primary SSD - Samsung PM830 256 GB
7.9
7.9
6.7
6.7
8.1
Hilton's Desktop
Bus Speed O/C to 166 MHz
Win 8 Pro x64
CPU - Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz
RAM - 3*4 GB A-RAM PC-12000 (1600 MHz)
Graphics - 2 * Gigabyte HD4850 Fanless
Gaming Graphics - 2 * GV-R485MC-1GI
Primary SSD - A-RAM AR120GBE 120 GB
7.5
7.5
7.2
7.2
7.7
Dell XPS L501x Notebook
Win 8 Pro x64
CPU - Core i7-740QM @ 1.73 GHz
RAM - 2*4GB HMT351S6BFR8C-H9 (667 MHz)
Graphics - nVidia GeForce GT435M 2GB
Gaming Graphics - nVidia GeForce GT435M 2GB
Primary HDD - Toshiba MK6461GSY 640 GB
7.1
7.4
5.6
6.6
5.9
Dell XPS 12 Notebook
Win 8 Pro x64
CPU - Core i7-3537U @ 2.00 GHz
RAM - 2*4GB DDR3 (667 MHz)
Graphics - Intel HD 4000 2GB
Gaming Graphics - Intel HD 4000 2GB
Primary SSD - LITEONIT LMT-256M6M 256 GB
7.1
7.4
5.4
6.4
8.1

2 comments:

Alan said...

I don't see my Windows 8 submission up yet... ;)

Hilton Travis said...

Alan, that's because I don't have all the information I need to post a proper entry - there's no information on the video card in your system, so there's 2 lines that would be incomplete. :)