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Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and processor
jumped to 5.3.


I was just wondering why that would happen?
I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card

Damn. I know the answer but you only want MVP's to reply. Oh well.



"Mr. Jon Pope" <> wrote in message
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>
> Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
> Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and processor
> jumped to 5.3.
>
>
> I was just wondering why that would happen?
> I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:38:42 -0700, "Mr. Jon Pope" <>
wrote:

> Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
> Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and processor
> jumped to 5.3.
>
>
> I was just wondering why that would happen?
> I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card


My advice is to ignore the Windows Experience Index. In my experience,
it's extremely misleading. One of the reasons for that is that it's
completely ignorant of, and therefore ignores, what you do with your
computer. For example, a high video score may be very important to
someone playing computer games, but be almost completely meaningless
to someone who does word processing.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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Mr. Jon Pope wrote:
> Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
> Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and
> processor jumped to 5.3.
>
>
> I was just wondering why that would happen?
> I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card


As Ken has already said, the Performance Index really isn't all that
useful. However, if I were to offer a hypothesis, I'd have to surmise
that the new video adapter relieved some of the load that the low end
ATI adapter had placed on the CPU.

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"Ken Blake, MVP" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:38:42 -0700, "Mr. Jon Pope" <>
> wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was
>> 5.0
>> Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and
>> processor
>> jumped to 5.3.
>>
>>
>> I was just wondering why that would happen?
>> I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card
>
>
> My advice is to ignore the Windows Experience Index. In my experience,
> it's extremely misleading. One of the reasons for that is that it's
> completely ignorant of, and therefore ignores, what you do with your
> computer. For example, a high video score may be very important to
> someone playing computer games, but be almost completely meaningless
> to someone who does word processing.
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup


It's just measurements of various aspects of the machine's performance,
perhaps not very useful but hardly misleading unless you are saying the
values are wrong. Surely it's for the user to judge given the
individual figures and the type of use to be made of the PC. That
judgement is likely to have been already made, I don't play computer
games so I don't specify a high end video card. More detail or
targetted benchmarks would be better but I can't see why anyone who had
actually looked at the scores and knew what was important to them should
be misled.

The OP had noticed a change and was interested in a likely cause - I
haven't got an answer either.

Tom

It is a useless tool and just forget about it. It misleads the user and is not at
all an accurate measurement of the performance of your computer

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"Mr. Jon Pope" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
> Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and processor jumped
> to 5.3.
>
>
> I was just wondering why that would happen?
> I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card

Ken Blake, MVP;1157738 Wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:38:42 -0700, "Mr. Jon Pope" <mrjonpope@newsgroup
> wrote
> > > >
> > > Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score wa
> > 5.
> > > Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again an
> > processo
> > > jumped to 5.3
> >
> >
> > > I was just wondering why that would happen
> > > I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card > >
>
>
> My advice is to ignore the Windows Experience Index. In m
> experience
> it's extremely misleading. One of the reasons for that is that it'
> completely ignorant of, and therefore ignores, what you do with you
> computer. For example, a high video score may be very important t
> someone playing computer games, but be almost completely meaningles
> to someone who does word processing
>
> -
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 200
> Please Reply to the Newsgrou

+1 - although I am not an MVP and my answer probably does not qualify

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Thx for all the info

"Mr. Jon Pope" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Yesterday I ran Performance info and tools: My processor score was 5.0
> Today after I replaced a bad video card I ran the test again and processor
> jumped to 5.3.
>
>
> I was just wondering why that would happen?
> I switched out an ATI HD3650 1 gb card for evga 8600GT 256 mb card