Memory
This measures partly how fast your memory is, but also how much of it
your PC has (not including any shared as video memory). Here??™s how
Vista limits the maximum memory benchmark you can attain, regardless
of how fast your RAM is.
Want a higher Memory score? Add more RAM. (It??™ll have the meager
side effect of making your PC faster, too.)
Graphics
This value is the one most closely tied to your PC??™s ability to render the
Glass interface (see ???Get Glass,??? earlier in this chapter), and also indicates
your PC??™s ability to play back video. The score is based on the
video bandwidth (the speed at which your video card can move data, as
well as the amount of video memory you have).
A video card that doesn??™t support DirectX 9 automatically
earns a score no higher than 1.0. One for which you don??™t
have a Windows Vista Display Driver Model (WDDM)
driver can??™t receive a score higher than 1.9. To use the Glass
interface, you must have a Graphics score of at least 2.0.
Glass should run beautifully on a system ranked at 5.0 or
higher. An updated driver will usually raise your Graphics
score.
Processor
Processor
subscore Processor
Processor
subscore
Dual Intel Xeon 5160 @3.0Ghz 5.9 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ @2.2Ghz 4.9
Intel Core2 Duo 6600 @2.40GHz 5.4 AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @2GHz 4.8
Intel Core2 Duo 6400 @2.13GHz 5.4 Intel T2500 Core Duo @2GHz 4.8
Intel Core2 Duo T7600 @2.33GHz 5.2 AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile @1.
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