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Hardware and boot times.
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post Apr 13 2009, 09:46 PM
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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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post Apr 13 2009, 10:55 PM
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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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post Apr 14 2009, 12:21 AM
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QUOTE(illmortal @ Apr 13 2009, 10:55 PM) *
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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post Apr 14 2009, 01:10 AM
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it's actually the hard drive that affects it the most.

check this out

24 256gb ssds!
 
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post Apr 14 2009, 10:06 AM
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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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post Apr 14 2009, 11:45 AM
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QUOTE(six @ Apr 14 2009, 02:10 AM) *
it's actually the hard drive that affects it the most.

check this out

24 256gb ssds!


Oh true.. through a RAID setup.. lol

QUOTE(jcp @ Apr 14 2009, 11:06 AM) *
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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post Apr 14 2009, 12:16 PM
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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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post Apr 14 2009, 01:16 PM
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It's the RPMs of the HDD. The larger the RPMs the faster.
 
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post Apr 14 2009, 01:30 PM
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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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post Apr 14 2009, 01:33 PM
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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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