rate only 3

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?

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?)
"Brad D." wrote in message

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?

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).
"Travis King" wrote:

384MB (256MB) of gaming graphics = 4.3 (Where does the 384 come from anyway?)

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
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"Brad D." wrote in message

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?

Kip schrieb:

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

"Travis King" wrote: 384MB (256MB) of gaming graphics = 4.3 (Where does the 384 come from anyway?)