Rate only 3

[Guest]

My rateings for all my deviceses on my PC are well over 3.0 but my over all
rateing is only 3. How doea this work?

 

[Travis King]

Which component on your computer had the lowest rating? Vista gives your
computer an overall rating by your lowest subcategory rating and then gives
you that number.
Example: (Making this up)
CPU: 4.3
Memory: 4.1
Hard Drive: 3.8
GPU: 5.9
VRAM: 4.0
Your overall rating would be a '3' just because the hard drive is a 3.8.
Vista will not give you an overall rating of 3.XX. Only a whole number. My
computer also gets a rating of 3.
AMD Sempron 2800+ = 3.1
1.50GB of RAM = 3.0
WD 120GB 7200RPM 8MB cache IDE hard drive (60GB partition) = 3.7
Ati Radeon X1600 series = 5.9
384MB (256MB) of gaming graphics = 4.3 (Where does the 384 come from
anyway?)

 

[Guest]

there appears to be a bug in the catalyst drivers, since it always shows
128MB more video ram than the card has (for all ATI cards).

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

The maximum rating for the computer is 5, individual components can be
higher making the numbers not appear as you would think:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/vista/winsat.mspx

 

[Roy Coorne]

there appears to be a bug in the catalyst drivers, since it always shows
128MB more video ram than the card has (for all ATI cards).

Funny, indeed - there is 256 MB VRAM shown for my Radeon 9800 Pro 128
MB... not trustworthy.

Roy