Post your Windows Experience Index score for Windows 7!

Dentunes said:

This is the result for my MacBook Air 13" 2.13GHz 256GB SSD 4GB Ram Late 2010. Anyone who says this machine is great only for web browsing, emails and the like haven't used one. Absolutely awesome laptop.

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Nice number for that machine ( 5.3 )! My new 2011 mba 13 i5 256 gb ssd is just a tad higher sitting at 5.6 ...

Late 08 15" 5,1 MBP
2.4 C2D overclocked to 2.52ghz
8GB ram @ 1120MHZ
9600M GT @ 650 / 930 / 1550
500GB WD 7200 HDD

Processor : 6.0
Memory : 6.0
Graphics : 6.5
Gaming Graphics : 6.5
Primary hard disk : 5.9

Overall 5.9, don't think I'll hit 6.0 without a SSD or ramdisk trickery.

MacBookPro6,2

Ram : 8GB


Processor : 6,9
Memory : 6,9
Graphics : 6.5
Gaming Graphics : 6,5
Primary hard disk : 6,9

Overall :6,5

i got a 5.9 because of my hard disk it only spins at 5400rpm.

Processor: 6.6
RAM:6.6
Graphics:6.4
Gaming graphics: 6.4
Primary Hard Disk: 5.9

2010 MBP 15"
8GB DDR3, Nvidia Geforce GT 330m
500GB

11" Macbook Air Mid 2011

core i7-2677 ,4gb, 256GB SSD, latest Intel and DirectX drivers
WEI = 5.9
Processor: 6.9
RAM: 5.9
Graphics: 5.9
Gaming: 6.2
Disk: 6.9

Windows Experience Score

Searched to see if this has been done already - didn't find anything.

Just wondered what people had in terms of windows experience scores and Parallels / Bootcamp.

My system
Early 2011 Top end/base spec MBP 2.2Ghz i7 8Gb Ram 750HDD

Software - Parallels

Virtual machine
CPU - 2
Ram 4 Gb
Performance - Faster
Video - 1Gb

Windows Experience score 5.5
Processor 5.5
Ram 7.7
Graphics 5.9
Gaming 5.6
HDD 6.0

Increasing the number of processor cores to 4 improves the processor score to 7.3

How do others have their machines set up?
What are your scores?
What tweaks have worked for you?
How do your tweaks effect the Mac environment?

Windows Experience Rating

Intel Q9450 2.66GHz, Quad Core
Asus P5KC MB
4BG 1066 Ram
ATI HD3870
Crucial M4 64 GB set to AHCI, tweaked with SSD Tweaker,

iMac27''i73.4QC/4x4GB/2TB+256SSD/Radeon6970M 2GB GDDR5
Win7ULTx64 installed on SSD
Scores:
Processor 7,6
Memory (RAM) 7,6
Graphics 7,6
Gaming graphics 7,6
Primary hard disk 6,9

Hard drives:
BOOTCAMP C: 79,8 GB free of 116GB (Win7&Norton360 only, no other software installed)
Macintosh HD 2 E: 1,81 TB free of 1,81 TB
Macintosh HD F: 107 GB free of 116 GB (MacOSX Lion only, other software & data not migrated yet from old iMac)

MacOS is 9 GB slim, but Win7Ultx64 is 36 GB fat!!!

Processor: 5.1
Memory: 4.5
Graphics: 5.9
Gaming: 5.0
Disk: 7.9

Something is not right here...It says I only have 1GB of ram instead of 8gb. I have it installed in Parallel's. Is this how it just is?

darko256 said:

MacOS is 9 GB slim, but Win7Ultx64 is 36 GB fat!!!

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Reduce or remove the pagefile, and disable hibernate if space is a concern. They'll be consuming the majority of that space.

Exhale said:

Reduce or remove the pagefile, and disable hibernate if space is a concern. They'll be consuming the majority of that space.

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That, and VSS Storage space plus remove unneeded Windows components and you should be down to lean and mean Win 7!

Toughbook said:

Processor: 5.1
Memory: 4.5
Graphics: 5.9
Gaming: 5.0
Disk: 7.9

Something is not right here...It says I only have 1GB of ram instead of 8gb. I have it installed in Parallel's. Is this how it just is?

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Try to install Windows in BootCamp, not in virtualisation software. Transition time between Win7Ult and MacOSXSnL is about 30sec on 256GB SSD.

I'll play. First one is before I enabled AHCI. Second one is after. Look at the jump on Primary Hard Disk performance. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on a 2.2GHz Early-2011 MBP with 8GB of RAM and a 240GB Vertex 3 SSD. It absolutely screams.

My MacBook Pro WEI Scores!!

Here are my WEI scores on my MacBook Pro w/ Retina Display, 2.7GHz (i7 3820QM) Quad Core CPU, 768GB SSD, 16GB RAM, nVidia GeForce GT 650M:



Now, to figure out why it's more sluggish than my Alienware M17x when playing Aion (an MMO RPG). My Alienware has worse scores in all areas!!

Healz said:

Here are my WEI scores on my MacBook Pro w/ Retina Display, 2.7GHz (i7 3820QM) Quad Core CPU, 768GB SSD, 16GB RAM, nVidia GeForce GT 650M:

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Now, to figure out why it's more sluggish than my Alienware M17x when playing Aion (an MMO RPG). My Alienware has worse scores in all areas!!

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Running at the same resolution on both machines?

Windows 7 (32 bit) under Parallels 8

Proc: 7.4
Memory 5.5
Graphics: 5.1
Gaming graphics: 4.5
Primary hard disk: 7.9

Not surprised the graphics scores are relatively low, considering it's a virtual machine on a Mac without a discrete GPU, but not sure why the memory is as slow as it is.

lightz39 said:

Running at the same resolution on both machines?

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Yes. I set the in-game settings the same on both
computer clients. The only thing I can think of is maybe some of the drivers aren't optimized on the Mac? idk :-(

FYI...Apple's Boot Camp drivers blow...especially for video. You're better off installing the 650m drivers from NVIDIA. I got a huge performance boost switching to AMD Catalyst on my Mid-2007 iMac.

Ok. I'll check it out. I thought I had downloaded my drivers from the nVidia site after installing the Boot Camp drivers. Thanks for the suggestion!

Update: Ok. I updated the graphics driver to the latest version. Not sure whether I really did test it at the same resolution as on my Alienware M17x notebook PC (I thought I had). But, tonight, I surely did. And the performance was fantastic!! The only problem is that at 1920 x 1280, the gameplay window is much smaller than on my Alienware :-( Not much I can do about that, since my Retina display's native resolution is so much higher.

Thanks for the tips, guys!!