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Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Supergoal, 20 Nov 2006.

  1. Supergoal

    Supergoal What's a Dremel?

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    What on average do you lot get?

    Does having a quick CPU mean a quick boot time? Or is it generally down to how fast your HDD is?
     
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  2. Bbq.of.DooM

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    My boot time is under 30 seconds.

    Fast cpu = fast boot. Fast hard drive = fast boot. Ram drive = crazy fast boot.
    There are some boot time optimizations like clearing out the startup folder that will make your boot significantly faster. If you want it even faster, try a Raptor, or ram drive.
     
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  3. Supergoal

    Supergoal What's a Dremel?

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    I'd say from switch on to fully loaded desktop mine takes a couple of minutes!
     
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  4. Highland3r

    Highland3r Minimodder

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    ~ 45 secs i'd guess.
     
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  5. Mother-Goose

    Mother-Goose 5 o'clock somewhere

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    Are there any solid state ram drives around? I havent seen any in the usual onlien stores.
     
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  6. Glider

    Glider /dev/null

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    Mother-Gooser, Gigabyte iRam IIRC

    My boot time (Power on [push button] to workable system) is 28 seconds, on a 1,5GHz Centrino lappy with 512MB RAM and a 5400RPM HD

    Things that, in my experience, influence boot time are (in order)
    Speed of HD, Amount of RAM, Speed of CPU

    To a lesser extent, Startup Folder (unless you load huge programs), and tweaks... Also, a huge speed killer is setting your CD-rom as bootable device before your HD (in BIOS)
     
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  7. Mother-Goose

    Mother-Goose 5 o'clock somewhere

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    Ah yes I had seen the iRam, I thought BBQ was reffering to actual drives, the iRam can only support up to 4 or 8 gb I think, and thats a costly lot of ram, and not enough to install an OS on either, nuts
     
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  8. Glider

    Glider /dev/null

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    8GB is plenty for my Gentoo system ;) and IIRC it didn't have to be high speed ram, PC2100 or so was more then plenty.
     
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  9. Bbq.of.DooM

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    it's 4gb.

    Yes, real ram drives exist. I know for a fact that puget can hook you up with an 8 gig ram drive for about 500 bucks. Compared to that, the iRam is rather pricy.
     
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  10. overdosedelusion

    overdosedelusion I mostly come at night, mostly..

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    including the bios check about 20 seconds, the actual windows bar thing, 5 seconds
     
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  11. specofdust

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    About 1 minute, but I have an extra BIOS to load(and it confirms my RAID is doing A-ok) and my system is kinda over-used.
     
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  12. Supergoal

    Supergoal What's a Dremel?

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    Hmm, all your machines are faster than mine.
     
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  13. Highland3r

    Highland3r Minimodder

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    You have loads of crap loading on boot. How many processes running at boot?

    fwiw, have a stripped xp install which boots in ~ 10 secs once dmi pool verification. About 3/4 a scroll of the bar/
    2k3 server is similar.
     
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  14. Supergoal

    Supergoal What's a Dremel?

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    39 Processes.

    Boot time from power switch to fully loaded 1m:15s
     
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  15. JesterQ

    JesterQ What's a Dremel?

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    Power to desktop 40 secs.
     
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  16. <A88>

    <A88> Trust the Computer

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    About 30 seconds from hibernate. Only real IDE Flash drives are these http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=16#2621 but they're expensive and store next to nothing. Afaik the only proper flash drives you can get are in laptops.

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  17. DMAthlon

    DMAthlon What's a Dremel?

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