A friend has a Celeron with 128 AGP Radeon® 9700 PRO and gets

Graphics: 5.2
Gaming Graphics: 4.3 in the WEI

I got a 256 Nvidea PCI Express on a brand-new Dell and get

Graphics: 3.7
Gaming Graphics: 3.2

Any ideas?

I don't know about you but that "scoring" stuff doesn't matter to me.

All I care about is that my overall experience meets my expectations and
they do. So regardless of how Vista "scores" my hardware, my system performs
fantastic in Vista!

Dell XPS 400
Intel 3ghz Dual Core CPU
2gig - DDR2 RAM
(2) 160gig hdds in RAID 1
PNY 7900GS PCI-E nVidia (256mb)
DVDRW/CDRW combo cdrom drive
Integrated sound and network adapter


"Bill Condie" <billcondie******.com> wrote in message
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>A friend has a Celeron with 128 AGP Radeon® 9700 PRO and gets
>
> Graphics: 5.2
> Gaming Graphics: 4.3 in the WEI
>
> I got a 256 Nvidea PCI Express on a brand-new Dell and get
>
> Graphics: 3.7
> Gaming Graphics: 3.2
>
> Any ideas?

That was basically my feeling too, and I'm sure it's just the drivers not
being ready.

But when my buddy with half the card got twice the score I just HAD to ask

Dell just gave me a warranty replacement with Home Premium installed and it
is great.
After Tech Support got me to uninstall Roxio Drag to Disk. How could it be
shipped that way?

Much bettter than Office in the old machine


"Keith" <kgamard@cox.net> wrote in message
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>I don't know about you but that "scoring" stuff doesn't matter to me.
>
> All I care about is that my overall experience meets my expectations and
> they do. So regardless of how Vista "scores" my hardware, my system
> performs fantastic in Vista!
>
> Dell XPS 400
> Intel 3ghz Dual Core CPU
> 2gig - DDR2 RAM
> (2) 160gig hdds in RAID 1
> PNY 7900GS PCI-E nVidia (256mb)
> DVDRW/CDRW combo cdrom drive
> Integrated sound and network adapter
>
>
> "Bill Condie" <billcondie******.com> wrote in message
> news:%23DLYxlfUHHA.920@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>A friend has a Celeron with 128 AGP Radeon® 9700 PRO and gets
>>
>> Graphics: 5.2
>> Gaming Graphics: 4.3 in the WEI
>>
>> I got a 256 Nvidea PCI Express on a brand-new Dell and get
>>
>> Graphics: 3.7
>> Gaming Graphics: 3.2
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
>

"Bill Condie" <billcondie******.com> wrote in message
news:%23DLYxlfUHHA.920@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>A friend has a Celeron with 128 AGP Radeon® 9700 PRO and gets
>
> Graphics: 5.2
> Gaming Graphics: 4.3 in the WEI
>
> I got a 256 Nvidea PCI Express on a brand-new Dell and get
>
> Graphics: 3.7
> Gaming Graphics: 3.2
>
> Any ideas?
What program/site did you use to calculate the score?
Does it factor anything of the PC besides the video card?/
Are you both running the same OS?
Are you both running the latest drivers?

Isn't that amazing? How could they ever have tested their builds? It is
not even possible. There should be a class action suit. The number of
posts from Dell owners with new PCs using Vista in other newsgroups is just
amazing.

Dale

"Bill Condie" <billcondie******.com> wrote in message
news:urijcXgUHHA.1000@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> That was basically my feeling too, and I'm sure it's just the drivers not
> being ready.
>
> But when my buddy with half the card got twice the score I just HAD to ask
>
> Dell just gave me a warranty replacement with Home Premium installed and
> it is great.
> After Tech Support got me to uninstall Roxio Drag to Disk. How could it be
> shipped that way?
>
> Much bettter than Office in the old machine
>
>
> "Keith" <kgamard@cox.net> wrote in message
> news:uo$W4QgUHHA.192@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I don't know about you but that "scoring" stuff doesn't matter to me.
>>
>> All I care about is that my overall experience meets my expectations and
>> they do. So regardless of how Vista "scores" my hardware, my system
>> performs fantastic in Vista!
>>
>> Dell XPS 400
>> Intel 3ghz Dual Core CPU
>> 2gig - DDR2 RAM
>> (2) 160gig hdds in RAID 1
>> PNY 7900GS PCI-E nVidia (256mb)
>> DVDRW/CDRW combo cdrom drive
>> Integrated sound and network adapter
>>
>>
>> "Bill Condie" <billcondie******.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23DLYxlfUHHA.920@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>>A friend has a Celeron with 128 AGP Radeon® 9700 PRO and gets
>>>
>>> Graphics: 5.2
>>> Gaming Graphics: 4.3 in the WEI
>>>
>>> I got a 256 Nvidea PCI Express on a brand-new Dell and get
>>>
>>> Graphics: 3.7
>>> Gaming Graphics: 3.2
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>

"Bill Condie" <billcondie******.com> wrote in message
news:%23DLYxlfUHHA.920@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>A friend has a Celeron with 128 AGP Radeon® 9700 PRO and gets
>
> Graphics: 5.2
> Gaming Graphics: 4.3 in the WEI
>
> I got a 256 Nvidea PCI Express on a brand-new Dell and get
>
> Graphics: 3.7
> Gaming Graphics: 3.2
>
> Any ideas?


nVidia, apparently, is furiously working on their drivers as people are
having issues with them when installed to Vista.

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And that's the way it shipped from Dell!

It also shipped with an incompatible Drag to Disk that had to be
uininstalled.

"Saucy" <do.not@use.this> wrote in message
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> "Bill Condie" <billcondie******.com> wrote in message
> news:%23DLYxlfUHHA.920@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>A friend has a Celeron with 128 AGP Radeon® 9700 PRO and gets
>>
>> Graphics: 5.2
>> Gaming Graphics: 4.3 in the WEI
>>
>> I got a 256 Nvidea PCI Express on a brand-new Dell and get
>>
>> Graphics: 3.7
>> Gaming Graphics: 3.2
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
>
> nVidia, apparently, is furiously working on their drivers as people are
> having issues with them when installed to Vista.
>
> --
> Saucy
> --
> For email:
> guidsaucy at hotmail dot com
>
>
>