First Look: Windows Vista RC2
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One final piece of collateral information indicating that Vista is going require heavier duty graphics than do today's PCs if it is to shine is provided in RC2's Windows Experience Index. That's the hardware assessment tool previously known as the Windows System Performance rating, or WinSPR. The experience index continues to use graphics as the gating factor. My test PC was equipped with a 3.2-GHz dual-core Pentium 940, which got it a subscore of 4.8 on the processor portion of the test. However, my 256-MB graphics card rated only a 3.1. That limited the final score to 3.1, since the final rating is determined by the lowest subscore.