Friday, February 22, 2008

Windows Experience Index

The Experience Index is designed to help you judge what your expeinece is going to be like when using Windows Vista on a specific computer. You can see how the hardware stacks up against Windows Vista. This way you can identify where a little upgrade here or there could improve your computer's performance.

You get to the Windows Experience Index by holding down the Windows key and pressing the Pause/Break key.

The Windows Experience Index measures five major things that will affect you computers performance.
  1. RAM random access memory
  2. CPU central processing unit
  3. Hard disk
  4. General graphics performance
  5. 3D graphics capability
Note: That there is not rating for the software or programs that you are using on that specific computer. For that you will have to consult the softwares recommended requirements.


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