6Ghz 4.7
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ @2.6Ghz 5.1 Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.80GHz 4.1
Amount of RAM
Max.
subscore Amount of RAM
Max.
subscore
Less than 256 MB 1.0 513??“704 MB 3.5
257??“500 MB 2.0 705??“960 MB 3.9
501??“512 MB 2.9 961 MB??“1.5 GB 4.5
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Gaming graphics
This measures your video card??™s 3D prowess, specifically the frames per
second it can attain in certain situations.
Like the Graphics benchmark, described previously, there
are minimum requirements for certain scores. If your video
card doesn??™t support Direct3D 9, it earns a score no higher
than 1.0. If support for Pixel Shader 3.0 is absent, then you
won??™t see a score higher than 4.9, regardless of other factors.
If you believe your card is capable of these things, yet your
score seems unfairly low, your driver is likely to blame.
Primary hard disk
This measures the transfer rate, the speed at which your PC can read
and write information to the drive on which Windows is installed. See
the ???Hard Disk??? section, later in this chapter, for things you can do to
increase this score.
Off to the right, you??™ll see a Base score emblazoned on a Windows logo.
This score isn??™t an average of the subscores to the left, but rather an indication
of the lowest score??”the weakest link in the chain, so to speak.
Don??™t panic if your Processor score is a hair lower than your neighbor??™s
down the street, even though you have a faster CPU. (Because your neighbor
is probably worried about your slightly better Graphics score, even
though his video card cost $40 more than yours.
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