what kind of speed increase would i get over my current 300gb diamondmax10 with a 74gb raptor in HL2 (loading times and stuff affected by HD) and games in general (since it would be my gaming HD mostly)? i was looking at getting one since they say a true beast rig has at least one of these... but they're pretty expensive at the gb, especially in canada. it's basically the same price as my 300gb. who thinks it's worth it, who doesn't?
how faster than a 7.2k HDD is a Raptor drive in reality?
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aahh, what I was looking for but could'nt find.
muchas gracias. didn't even know my drive was this fast buahah.
on final thought i'll probably wait for them to make a larger one and see how well it fares and reconsider it then. honestly i just wanted something to fill my shiny new cooldrive6
till then i'll just use it to display neat scrolling obscene phrasings on my front panel. :thumbs:
muchas gracias. didn't even know my drive was this fast buahah.
on final thought i'll probably wait for them to make a larger one and see how well it fares and reconsider it then. honestly i just wanted something to fill my shiny new cooldrive6
till then i'll just use it to display neat scrolling obscene phrasings on my front panel. :thumbs:then there is initialising the page file / virtual memory
boot times probably also depend on which section the OS was installed to.
what i find sooooooo annoying is that, from a fresh windows install, it spreads it out as much as it can over my hard drive, so looking at defrag, its green chunk to the left, then another small chunk to the middle, and then sometimes another small line to the right.
usually gettin a program that does defrag it causes problems.
once had this program, it actually defragged the bootfiles and moved them to the start of the hard drive, and i really noticed a boost in bootup times, id say it was cut in half. called Tweak XP or so. il have to google for it again
boot times probably also depend on which section the OS was installed to.
what i find sooooooo annoying is that, from a fresh windows install, it spreads it out as much as it can over my hard drive, so looking at defrag, its green chunk to the left, then another small chunk to the middle, and then sometimes another small line to the right.
usually gettin a program that does defrag it causes problems.
once had this program, it actually defragged the bootfiles and moved them to the start of the hard drive, and i really noticed a boost in bootup times, id say it was cut in half. called Tweak XP or so. il have to google for it again
after about 2 hours of searching through google results, i realised i was searching for the wrong thing. its not Tweak XP, its TuneXP
http://www.tweakhound.com/reviews/tunexp/
heres the link, and it gives evidence that it can speed up your boot times
http://www.tweakhound.com/reviews/tunexp/
heres the link, and it gives evidence that it can speed up your boot times
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FYI switching IDE/SATA controllers or to a different chipset (switching motherboards) can result in much faster boot times (not game load times though). Some boards just don't take as much time getting those controllers setup on boot.furiousV said:
for now im happy with my computer, i865PE and ICH5R controllers.
its highly likely il build myself a new computer towards the end of this year, and this time it will be an AMD 64, unless Intel magically come out with something new, similar to the 64 bit processor.
ive learnt alot from this forum, and gained quite a bit of experience as i have been upgrading my computer.
btw, by saying switching controllers, do you mean ordering a PCI card and connecting the drives in there can make boot times faster?
i cant imagine you can take out your ICH5R and replace it with the nVidia one, or a ICH6 or other.
its highly likely il build myself a new computer towards the end of this year, and this time it will be an AMD 64, unless Intel magically come out with something new, similar to the 64 bit processor.
ive learnt alot from this forum, and gained quite a bit of experience as i have been upgrading my computer.
btw, by saying switching controllers, do you mean ordering a PCI card and connecting the drives in there can make boot times faster?
i cant imagine you can take out your ICH5R and replace it with the nVidia one, or a ICH6 or other.
just another stupid question:
how exactly do you measure how long it takes for ur PC to boot?
from 'as soon as u hit the on button' to 'as soon as u enter ur password'?
or as soon as u see the windows logo, as everything before that is POST.
i just took a stopwatch and timed from as soon as on button to password, got 0:01:07:88 but i think my computer checks the gig of RAM every time.
my hard disk just arrived, along with some Akasa hard disk coolers, i dont think 59C is healthy, which may be responsible for my failure a few weeks back. gonna get an average on boot times. then, that TuneXP program has some feature to defrag and reorganise boot files to speed up boot time, gonna get an average on that. then im going to re-install windows, AGAIN, and get it on RAID 0.
just something to do on a rainy day, which it is right now
how exactly do you measure how long it takes for ur PC to boot?
from 'as soon as u hit the on button' to 'as soon as u enter ur password'?
or as soon as u see the windows logo, as everything before that is POST.
i just took a stopwatch and timed from as soon as on button to password, got 0:01:07:88 but i think my computer checks the gig of RAM every time.
my hard disk just arrived, along with some Akasa hard disk coolers, i dont think 59C is healthy, which may be responsible for my failure a few weeks back. gonna get an average on boot times. then, that TuneXP program has some feature to defrag and reorganise boot files to speed up boot time, gonna get an average on that. then im going to re-install windows, AGAIN, and get it on RAID 0.
just something to do on a rainy day, which it is right now
yeah i got my pc all optimized as soon as it posted. current total boot time is 28 seconds including input peripheral softwares and steam and i find that a bit slow. but it's mostly having to wait 15 seconds for half life to boot the first time that gets on my nerves. the problem is i probably put too many apps in my boot partition. i only put very small ones but it must have added up. i admit i should defrag too.
*sigh*... today's computers...
*sigh*... today's computers...
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