UPDATE:

I recently installed and new graphics card and overclocked my CPU to 3.2ghz from 2.8, thus giving me a new WEI in Win 7. My previous CPU score was 7.0 and my graphics was 5.9... RAM is the same.

As you can see, my HDD score is what's holding me back some.  While not particulaly bad/low, a faster HDD would improve overall OS performance.  Hmmm, I can't wait 'til the SSD's come way down in price, for one of those would be ace

Here's my new system with Win 7.

Strange when you compair the scores with starkers. I thought the i7 would have a higher score than my Quad running at 2.83. I have the EVGA GTX260SC 896mb, and a SSD drive for the primary drive. 

Yep...tho my SSD is still the lowest subscore....at least it's a '7.0' ...

 Guess I need to up my graphics card!

My CPU, actually, is the AMD Phenom II 920... though I'd like an i7 920, better still a 995E very muchly.

Mind you, with most i7 920's posting at 7.4, my Phenom II 920 isn't too far behind at 7.3.  Hmmm, wonder what I'd be posting if I had gone with the Phenom II  945 or 955 instead... and similarly o/ced it??  Was originally going to go with the 940 -945, but would have had to wait 6 - 8 weeks after ordering for the shipment to come in... then it would have been a couple of hundred bucks more, so I opted for the 920, being more within my price range at the time.

However, my GTX260 is the Gigabyte GV-N260C-896I @ 896 mb... more or less the same power, etc, as yours, yet your graphics score is 7.3... 0.1 higher than mine.... could be the different brand/components, I guess.

That'd be right... Jafo has to go rub it in! 

Well that's nothing... my monitor rates 9.9... probably a 10.0 if I dusted it.

Yeah, and the GTX260's have come way down in price since release.  Although a recent shortage in supply has increased the price some here in Oz, I still see them going for quite reasonable prices at neweegg and other US vendors, so it might just be a good time to purchase.

Processor............  Intel Core I7 920 @ 3.2GHz

Ram................... 6 GB OCZ Platinum DDR3 @ 1800MHz

Graphics............. ASUS Radeon HD5850 (Cypress Pro) 1 GB - 256bit GDDR5

Solid State Drive.. OCZ Agility 128 GB (Last bench marked at READ= 209 MB/s and WRITE= 156 MB/s)

My new Laptop :

And the windows experience index score of my vista desktop updated:

My Baby   Parts of her are a few years old, but with the crossfired 5700's and the newest toy of a 60 gb SSD (that i see I need to clean) she pretty much screams.

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Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 430 @ 2.27GHz:  6.7

Memory (RAM): 6.00GB: 6.7

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M: 6.4

Gaming graphics: 3768 MB Total available graphics memory: 6.4

Primary hard disk: 434GB Free (565GB Total): 5.8

BASE SCORE: 5.8

Pretty good if you ask me.

Should be for 1500$.  I got it a week before it was released on the market (Last year)!

New WEI score after my recent upgrade

CPU: AMD Phenom II x6 @ 3.2Ghz [3.7Ghz on Turbo Boost] 7.3

RAM: Corsair 1600Ghz DDR3 16gb [2x4 - x2).................... 7.6

Graphics:  Gigabyte GV-N560GTGOC-1GI  1Gb GDDR5........7.7

Gaming Graphics: 4095Mb total available graphics memory. 7.7

Primary Hard Disk: OCZ Vertex Sata II SSD 128GB...........  7.1

Base score - 7.1

Not too shabby at all.... out of a possible WEI of 7.9