Windows Base Score

what is your lowest score for

4.8 isn't a particularly low score, loukeeya. The score is what it is determined by the lowest score among all the parameters. Different memory might improve it, and a different graphics card might as well, but you'd have to change or increase both.

If you aren't into very demanding (image/speed) gaming, it really isn't worth the investment.

The important question is, are you happy with what your computer is doing with your current/expected usage?

If you are, the 4.8 has no meaning. If you aren't, please detail what the problem is.

Your 2 lowest are memory and desktop graphics.

For the graphics, you can download the latest driver for your video card from the card manufacturer to possibly improve your score. Usually the referance drivers from the chip manufacturer have not been tweaked to your card. An example would be if you had a EVGA card with a NVIDIA chip, the EVGA drivers for your card may actually out perform the newest drivers from NVIDIA.

As for the memory, your problem could lie in the timing settings or possibly missmatched ram. Did you buy all of your ram at the same time or did you add some to what you already had? If you bought matching memory and set it for auto in CMOS it may not be running at the recomended settings. If you have matching ram and know the who the manufacturer is , you can go to their website and look up the timming and set them manually. If your ram is not matching, it's best to just run at auto.

One thing to note, tweaking your ram is not for the faint at heart. If your settings are not correct you will have a very unstable system.

lowest score for the graphics and the ram - the pc came with ram installed tho i did install a nvidia geoforce 9500 gt

sorry forgot to mention that i never olay games but do lots of video editing and bought the pc thinking it would speed up rendering and generally perform much faster than my previous. i wont attempt tweaking ram coz i dont know what am doing  lol

4.8 for a 9500 is correct (it's a "budget" card).

4.8 for memory is correct ( anything over 4 GB drops the timings).

That said.... if you're happy with the performance of the computer for it's intended use, who gives a shit what the score is?

https://forums.wincustomize.com/374830/page/1/#2526110 - Reply #19- last sentence.

I have to agree with yrag...as long as it does what you want, who cares what the score is. My laptop is a 3.5 but it runs everything I want it to do just fine. 

*when yrag agrees with doc, doc is happy. 

lol me happy? as if - seriously tho i just thought the higher the score the faster the pc. its ok tho sometimes when i have 2 sony vegas movie studio renderings on the go it slows a bit

Unless it's a gaming rig then anything over 4.0 is good ......

My sony AR has a rating of (4.7-5.8) so it makes it a 4.7 and it's running realy fast with windows 7...

28 sec's to desktop and 12 Sec's to shutdown.

i am still using vista - have to wait til i can upgrade to windows7- and that takes ages to start and shutdown. overall tho am happy with my pc 

Here is mine, I max out on Memory and am close to Maxing on CPU, If I installed a SS Drive I would super rock. However SS drives are to much money for the size.