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What's the cheapest PC configuration that can achieve a Windows Experience Index of 7.9 on a Windows 7 machine? Or what is a good configuration to achieve that score now?

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I think a better way to ask this is "What upgrades to the PC will affect the Windows Experience Index the most" – KronoS Oct 15 '10 at 17:39

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Check out Scott Hanselman's Windows 7 7.9 WEI system building experiment here:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/UltimateDeveloperPC20Part1BuildingAWEI79AndRFCForBuildingAGOMGodsOwnMachine.aspx

He has a good podcast including a member of the team that created the WEI.

http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=238

The goal of his machine was a 7.9 and to run Visual Studio as fast as possible, so it didn't necessarily need to have the worlds best graphics setup.

Here's some more about it:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HanselminutesPodcast226BuildingYourOwnUltimateDeveloperPC20WithPeteBrown.aspx

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Cheapest way ? Alter the files storing the number. Cost = Zero.

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I hate to give rep for this, but it totally deserved the upvote. – Joel Coehoorn Oct 2 '10 at 0:58
So wrong... so right. – WernerCD Oct 2 '10 at 2:57
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Worst answer I have ever received. Totally against the spirit of super user. – xiaodai Oct 2 '10 at 5:11

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