Windows Experience Index

Recently updated my BIOS on an ADUS P5W Deluxe motherboard. Index previous
to updating was 5.1 as the processor was the lowest index. Now the index has
dropped to 4.7 as it shows the processor is the lowest reading. Anyone any
idea why it shoud have dropped?
E6400 2 Duo and not overclocked. Running Vist Home perium.

Thanks
John

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:09:04 -0700, Jorel
<Jorel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Recently updated my BIOS on an ADUS P5W Deluxe motherboard. Index previous
> to updating was 5.1 as the processor was the lowest index. Now the index has
> dropped to 4.7 as it shows the processor is the lowest reading. Anyone any
> idea why it shoud have dropped?
> E6400 2 Duo and not overclocked. Running Vist Home perium.


How I wish Microsoft had not provided this index number! It is
misleading at best, and often completely wrong.

Do you notice any decrease in performance? Unless the answer is yes,
my advice is to ignore the number.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Thanks for the information. Strangely enough I uninstalled vista had a cuppa
and reinstalled it and low and behold the index was 5.1 how strange..However
you are correct in what you said I noticed no difference at all.

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:09:04 -0700, Jorel
> <Jorel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > Recently updated my BIOS on an ADUS P5W Deluxe motherboard. Index previous
> > to updating was 5.1 as the processor was the lowest index. Now the index has
> > dropped to 4.7 as it shows the processor is the lowest reading. Anyone any
> > idea why it shoud have dropped?
> > E6400 2 Duo and not overclocked. Running Vist Home perium.
>
>
> How I wish Microsoft had not provided this index number! It is
> misleading at best, and often completely wrong.
>
> Do you notice any decrease in performance? Unless the answer is yes,
> my advice is to ignore the number.
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
>

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:41:01 -0700, Jorel
<Jorel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the information.


You're welcome. Glad to help.


> Strangely enough I uninstalled vista had a cuppa
> and reinstalled it and low and behold the index was 5.1 how strange..


Was that the only reason you uninstalled and reinstalled? To get the
number higher? That was a lot of work for such a trivial reason!





> However
> you are correct in what you said I noticed no difference at all.
>
> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:09:04 -0700, Jorel
> > <Jorel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Recently updated my BIOS on an ADUS P5W Deluxe motherboard. Index previous
> > > to updating was 5.1 as the processor was the lowest index. Now the index has
> > > dropped to 4.7 as it shows the processor is the lowest reading. Anyone any
> > > idea why it shoud have dropped?
> > > E6400 2 Duo and not overclocked. Running Vist Home perium.
> >
> >
> > How I wish Microsoft had not provided this index number! It is
> > misleading at best, and often completely wrong.
> >
> > Do you notice any decrease in performance? Unless the answer is yes,
> > my advice is to ignore the number.
> >
> > --
> > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
> > Please Reply to the Newsgroup
> >

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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