Hardware and boot times. |
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Hardware and boot times. |
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I have been googeling around and I want to find out what HARDWARE effects boot times the most? I dont want to know software tips to speeed up boot times! Or does it all come back to the os. Do even super computers still take 45 seconds to boot just cause it has to load BIOS video cards whatevs.
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Anything in regards to speed... it's the processor and RAM. In fact the setup I have, it only takes 8 seconds from when I push the power button to logging into windows (no username). And Windows doesn't even look like it loads at all once I log in.
You know when the boot image is up and it shows the little green/blue bar going across the center of the screen as Windows loads up all your start programs and drivers etc..? On my PC that "blinks" once and Windows logs in. I hear on the new i7 processors with the DDR3 1600MHz RAM Windows loads up within 3-4 seconds after a fresh install. And the boot image that shows "windows loading" doesn't even exist... it bypasses that because of the monster processing power those processors and RAM produces. Just imagine what a i7 processor over clocked to 5.6GHz could do o.o;; (yes, they're capable of that without water cooling) |
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Anything in regards to speed... it's the processor and RAM. In fact the setup I have, it only takes 8 seconds from when I push the power button to logging into windows (no username). And Windows doesn't even look like it loads at all once I log in. You know when the boot image is up and it shows the little green/blue bar going across the center of the screen as Windows loads up all your start programs and drivers etc..? On my PC that "blinks" once and Windows logs in. I hear on the new i7 processors with the DDR3 1600MHz RAM Windows loads up within 3-4 seconds after a fresh install. And the boot image that shows "windows loading" doesn't even exist... it bypasses that because of the monster processing power those processors and RAM produces. Just imagine what a i7 processor over clocked to 5.6GHz could do o.o;; (yes, they're capable of that without water cooling) now iknow which processor to look for. haha. im currently looking at an intel dual core with 3.16 ghz. i showed it to you. and the motherboard im looking at only supports ddr2 ram. whats the difference between ddr2 and ddr3? |
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o! But im not sure on how to shop for a good one. What decides how good a harddrive is?
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Oh true.. through a RAID setup.. lol o! But im not sure on how to shop for a good one. What decides how good a harddrive is? It's not just one hard drive, it's a handful of hard drives that are setup in RAID |
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I know but if you only have one, does the hard drive still effect boot time? Either way I want a good hard drive for fast transfers but I dont understand what makes a hard drive faster. Like ram, the higgjer the mb/gb the better but what makes a hard drive better is this a good one?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822148335 |
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It's the RPMs of the HDD. The larger the RPMs the faster.
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And what about cache?
I thought this would be a better deal cause its WD and it has 32mb cache. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822136283 There are some that have 1000rpm but those are a little too expensive. O and is sata or IDE Better? |
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SATA 2.0 is better. And the 10,000 RPMs are more than likely the Raptors. And yes the HDD above is a good HDD.
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