Performance Tuning
Performance Ranking
- Windows 7 includes the Windows Experience Index to provide an objective measure of system performance.
- Windows 7 ranks the following five elements:
- Processor: The calculations per second that the processor can perform.
- Memory (RAM): The memory operations per second that the system can perform.
- Graphics: the ability to run the Windows Aero interface.
- Gaming graphics: The ability to run games and 3D business applications.
- Primary hard disk: The data transfer rate of the C drive.
- Individual subscores are used to create a base score.
- Base score is the overall ranking of your system. Ranking is from 1 to 5, with 5 being the best possible. It is not simply an average of the subscores.
- The following general performance guidelines for base scores are:
- Base score of 1 or 2: The computer is generally able to access the Internet and run general business applications.
- Base score of 3: The computer is able to use most new features in Windows 7.
- Base score of 4 or 5: The computer can use all of the new Windows 7 features, including all multimedia features.
Read more about the Windows Experience Index at:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/f59082f4-6385-4a61-ba7e-2de9625a780a1033.mspx.