I installed Vista Ultimate 32-bit. I get a score of 5.6 (for CPU operations
per second, everything else scores 5.9!). I also did a second install of
Home Premium, on a difference partition on the same physcial disk (this was
a test install, I've deleted it now). This install scored 5.7 for the CPU.

Why would two almost-identical installs have two different scores for the
same CPU?

"Brian W" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%P%Zi.3889$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I installed Vista Ultimate 32-bit. I get a score of 5.6 (for CPU
> operations per second, everything else scores 5.9!). I also did a second
> install of Home Premium, on a difference partition on the same physcial
> disk (this was a test install, I've deleted it now). This install scored
> 5.7 for the CPU.
>
> Why would two almost-identical installs have two different scores for the
> same CPU?
>

Because 5.6 and 5.7 are essentially the same.
You may have moved the mouse on one or had some network traffic and it could
have just pushed a 5.7 to a 5.6.