So just how low was your's ?
Just like everyone else's with a fairly modern mechanical HDD, 5.9. All 7.8, 7.9 except the 5.9. With SSD it is 7.8. It's a stupid test to sell you more crap you don't need. Glad MS stayed away from the need to market to customers based on this score. I can see the expanded sticker system now.
Right next to your 'Intel Inside' and AMD 'radforce super power' and your whatever else needs separate marketing.
Why? It is only an 'index'. I can make sht up just like MS
I was just assuming my 840 Pro would net 7.6+ As posts on the net were proclaiming the 256GB pro at 7.9. Thus determining my lowest score of 7.8. The test obviously only cares for single threaded as you have twice my processor (and 52GB more memory and 2x+ the GPU) yet scores the same. I don't have Win on my SSD's right now (they are for OS X, my work OS). It isn't rocket science to cobble together the theoretical result if an SSD was involved as the index is so ridiculous as it is.
