Create your own Vista Rating (HACK) Vista Addons and Applications Discuss Create your own Vista Rating (HACK) in the Windows Vista forums; the rating system is just there so you buy new hardware. It has no purpose. Not even a bot can tell me if my computer hardwares up the creek or ...

[vb_packets]

the rating system is just there so you buy new hardware. It has no purpose. Not even a bot can tell me if my computer hardwares up the creek or it sucks. it dont make ur pc perform faster - this is just what we think.. maybe it is ther for a stupid purpose. Its funny to see we can rate our computers now lmao.

[crabby]

The hack wont affect performance... and the reason for the rating system is so that the 'system requirements' section on sofware boxes becomes easier to understand so people are more confident to purchase.

crabby

[felix8406]

My question had to do with the hack; it sure looks good to have a windows experience index of a 9.2, but it won't do a thing for the performance.

However, a Windows Experience Index is a good tool when buying a new PC. When buying a PC, you may want to look at the experience index to see if the PC has what it takes to do what you want it to do. It measures the performance of both, the hardware and software. The higher the base score, the faster the PC will perform as compare to a lower base score PC.

[ants]

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The 9.9 is a little obvious, looks good tho.

That'll get them talking.

[felix8406]

It sure will; that is really what Microsoft calls a "WOW" or a

Now, if someone purchase A PC from anywhere and has that WOW rating of 9.9, it'll pay to rerun the index experience test before bringing that PC home, if possible, because maybe that PC's rating has been hacked. Similar to when some buyers bought PCs that show a faster CPU than what they actually had. It wasn't until weeks down the road when the PC failed due to an overclock CPU.

So is there a list somewhere which shows what "features" are associated with specific scores or a score range?

[felix8406]

Other than what one sees when going to computer details, I don't know of any other listing. But it does serves as a tool to decide if a particular PC is for you. Obviously if someone is looking for a gamer machine, they want their index experience, especially for the graphics card, to be on the high side. But an individual who just wants to write word documents or the likes, he/she doesn't really want to spend money on a PC with a high experience index for example. The higher the experience, the better quality of that PC, which usually means that it's going to cost more.

[Znod]

I don't think I can go with the higher the experience index the better the quality idea. For example, my laptop is of very high quality and undoubetly is of higher quality than many with higher experience indexes. It just doesn't have enough graphics power to get an experience index greater than one..

[felix8406]

Which might tell you that the graphics card, not the laptop, is not on the high end of the quality index. I'm not saying it's of poor quality, but it means that there are better cards out there for your laptop that can produce better results. Another thing is that your laptop might not be a good candidate for playing high graphics PC games.

[Znod]

I think you are equating/confusing quality with performance on a particular dimension. For example, my integrated graphics might be of higher quality in the sense it may work extremely well (i.e., with no problems) given what it is supposed to do in comparison to a more problematic high-end card. Quality is difficult to define in this context but I would equate quality with neither performance nor price. They are many real-world examples where less expensive items, with lesser performance on a given dimension, are judged to be of higher overall quality than others.