CPU upgrade caused higher Memory rating in Vista EXP!

[nes]

Crazy. G Skills jumped from 5.2 to 5.9 after CPU went from e6700 to q9450. Interesting.

[Goliath182]

Probably because the Q9450 has a better memory manager.

[Miker]

Or because Vista is the ****z, thus, the score it gives you is the ****z.

[Pablo 54]

How much juice are you sending to the memory? When I originally used a 4 x 1 set of XMS, my E6550 rating went from a 5.2 up to a 5.5. Since I have installed a 4 x 2 set of XMS, it has gone back down to a 5.2. The only change I could come up with was the volts.

[tyle6]

My guess i that the FSB increase is to blame. You went from a 1066 to a 1333mhz FSB.
I saw the same sort of increase in rating on my ram when i went from a 533mhz to a 800mhz FSB. increased interconnect bandwidth is to blame.

[nes]

Pablo 54, I'm sending only 2.11V to the G.Skill.

[Pablo 54]

nes,

Interesting. I had to bump up the volts to 2.125 and then eventually 2.2 to keep everything stable. At 2.2 on the memory, I noticed my core was a bit over 1.4. With the memory settings on auto I get 1.850 on the memory and 1.313 on the core and 5.2 on the Vista scale. I wish I more fully understood the interplay between these parts. :frown:

Thanks for letting me know.

Paul

[joz]

Vista "Experience" Index is worthless.

Real-World performance is all that matters.

60 seconds vs. 58 seconds? not noticible, 60 seconds vs 30 seconds, noticble.

23 seconds , yea, thats better :D----

If you wana judge how fast your system is, time you boot, time a large job in photoshop and then see how well crysis plays at 1900x or higher with max details (yea..right.)