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but that won't explain the fact that my processor score went down to 2.9!
I'm almost sure you have "Power Saving" set in the Power Options, or in other words, your CPU isn't working at full speed and the settings won't let it get to the full speed (EIST settings in BIOS could be also playing a role here).
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but that won't explain the fact that my processor score went down to 2.9!
I'm almost sure you have "Power Saving" set in the Power Options, or in other words, your CPU isn't working at full speed and the settings won't let it get to the full speed (EIST settings in BIOS could be also playing a role here).

sorry to disappoint you.

I have balanced power management, with CPU at 100% when plugged-in.

ha!!!

changing to high performance did help, it's now on 3.8... :)

(which is still quite low)

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From what I understand, there were changes to WinSat between the betas and the RC, so the processor score changing may be expected, especially considering you can change it by changing the power scheme. What CPU is this?

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From what I understand, there were changes to WinSat between the betas and the RC, so the processor score changing may be expected, especially considering you can change it by changing the power scheme. What CPU is this?

Genuine Intel CPU T2500 2.00GHz (Core Duo)

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Can you run "winsat cpu -v" and paste the output?

Windows System Assessment Tool
> Command Line 'winsat cpu -v'
> DWM not running
> System processor power policy saved and set to 'max performance'
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Gathering System Information
> Operating System : 6.1 Build-7100
> Processor : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 @ 2.00GHz
> TSC Frequency : 1976700000
> Number of Processors : 1
> Number of Cores : 2
> Number of CPUs : 2
> Number of Cores per Processor : 2
> Number of CPUs Per Core : 1
> Cores have logical CPUs : NO
> L1 Cache and line Size : 32768 64
> L2 Cache and line Size : 2097152 64
> Total physical mem available to the OS : 2.49 GB (2,682,773,504 bytes)
> Adapter Description : ATI Mobility Radeon X1600
> Adapter Manufacturer : ATI Technologies Inc.
> Adapter Driver Version : 8.491.0.0
> Adapter Driver Date (yy/mm/dd) : 2008\4\22
> Has DX9 or better : Yes
> Has Pixel shader 2.0 or better : Yes
> Has LDDM Driver : Yes
> Dedicated (local) video memory : 254.887MB
> System memory dedicated as video memory : 0MB
> System memory shared as video memory : 1023.25MB
> Primary Monitor Size : 1280 X 768 (983040 total pixels)
> WinSAT is Official : Yes
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: CPU Assessment ''Error: Assessment mode not specified. valid options are: -encryption, -compressi on
> Total Run Time 00:00:01.26
> The System processor power policy was restored

Also, what was the score in Win7 7000?

the CPU was somewhere above 4.5...

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OK, I think this is because of the score rebasing between RC and betas. Can you try this - run "winsat cpu -compression -v" and winsat cpu -encryption -v" and paste just the section below "Running: CPU Assessment" in the output? I need to see what scores you're getting, because I have access to a T2500 later today.

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OK, I think this is because of the score rebasing between RC and betas. Can you try this - run "winsat cpu -compression -v" and winsat cpu -encryption -v" and paste just the section below "Running: CPU Assessment" in the output? I need to see what scores you're getting, because I have access to a T2500 later today.

winsat cpu -compression -v:

> Running: CPU Assessment '-compression'
> Run Time 00:00:10.20
> CPU LZW Compression 90.77 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:12.28
> The System processor power policy was restored

winsat cpu -encryption -v:

> Running: CPU Assessment '-encryption'
> Run Time 00:00:10.16
> CPU AES256 Encryption 46.26 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:11.53
> The System processor power policy was restored

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Yes, this is about what I'm getting on my 3.8 box. There was a "refactoring" of the scoring for the RC (don't know if there'll be another before RTM) due to the i7, I believe, so it makes sense this is lower than it was in Vista or build 7000. I get the same scores with a similar Thinkpad, so I believe this to be expected. Just remember the score is just a score, it's not going to affect your ability to use the OS (and anything over a 3 is technically considered "good" hardware for Win7 - netbooks running the Atom 1.6 generally score around 2.1 or 2.2, and they run Win7 quite well.

My 7.1 Core2Duo box gets the following scores, for reference:

> Running: CPU Assessment '-compression'
> Run Time 00:00:10.28
> CPU LZW Compression 254.64 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:12.95
> The System processor power policy was restored

> Running: CPU Assessment '-encryption'
> Run Time 00:00:03.21
> CPU AES256 Encryption 156.27 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:05.15
> The System processor power policy was restored

There is a delta there, and it's pretty big - anything under 100Mb/s in the compression test will not score above a 4.0, although I don't know about the encryption tests. Hopefully the documentation whitepapers on Win7 at RTM will explain the scoring in more detail than the beta documentation did, but your numbers do seem pretty low.

Note that the scoring and WinSat in general isn't being backported to Vista, for what it's worth, so Vista scores will not get parity with Win7 scores when it RTMs either, although I'd argue the Win7 scores are much more accurate than the Vista scores.

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