Vista experience index base score of 5.3

:Windows experience index base score: Hmm...

I didn't know about this thingie, nobody seems to be talking about it while discussing Vista. Well, not many are talkin about Vista in the first place so the chances of mention of this thing would be remote.

So. I got the score of 5.3 with subscore as follows

Processor 5.5
Memory(RAM) 5.9
Graphics 5.9
Gaming graphics 5.9
Primary Hard Disk 5.3

This is with the AMD 6000+ Processor running at stock speed of 3000Mhz.

Now i cant do much about the HDD score.(WD 250 GB PATA) so i decided to play around with the processor clock speeds.

With the processor overclocked by 5% 3150Mhz. the processor score stayed at 5.5.
Overclocking by 10% 3300Mhz The processor score moved to 5.6. SS as below

Since the Vista Base score is the least score out of the component scores, i got the Vista base score of 5.3. How to get the HDD score to move up is not known to me right now but i'm sure i'll be able to do that once i get two SATA HDD to run in RAID 0 configuration but thats still a long time to go.

This overclocking was done from the BIOS menu directly without spending much thinking effort on it. Short of time and will. Just wanted to try out the effect.

I'm sure when i get some time to spend on tweaking the clocking values and the cooling subsystem. I'm planning to get a peltier junction to have the best localised cooling for the processor. Then It will be fun to overclock and to extract performance out of processor.

I would love to know the maximum score of components. But since the scoring is capped at 5.9 for some time atleast (Could take a long time for Vista to gain acceptance with XP still being OK and Vista not offering any visible benefits) i'll just have to wait.

Any hackers around to unlock the scoring???