How to boot fast in win 7 Ultimate 64 bit?

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KaiserPhantasma

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So I just assembled this machine and am in need of tips/tweaks/advice on how do I boot it fast...
here are the specs of my machine...

MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX iZ87, SATA600 RAID, USB3.0, WLAN
Intel Haswell Core i5 4670K 3.40GHz 6MB Box
MSI Videocard PCI-e Radeon HD7970 OC BE 3GB DVI/HDMI/2xDP
Seagate Harddisk 3.5" Desktop 3TB, SATA600, 7200rpm
Samsung SSD 2.5", 128GB, SATA600, 840 Series Pro
Corsair 300R (Window Side Panel) Mid Tower Case
Corsair Vengeance 2x8 (16GB) 1600Mhz DDR3 SDRAM
Corsair AX 760 80PLUS Platinum PSU

question is how do I boot it up fast???
I'm targetting like under 5 secs in win 7... is that even possible?
and yes I also "optimized" the SSD by reading the optimization guide of that here (it was a good one it was actually stickied)...


 
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in the bios there is an option usually for standby mode (s1 or s3). on s3 the fans and cpu stops and only the ram is left powered. the recovery from it is almost instant and everything stays the way you left it (there's no restart performed).

the downside is if the power shuts down from the wall the system goes off completely and you start from a cold boot instead + you lose anything you had running.

on s1, the cpu and fans all stay powered. only the hdd is stopped i think.

s4 is the hibernate that i hate. what i does is s3+saves the data to hdd. which sucks pretty much if you have a lot of ram. on resume it copies the data back. takes a lot.

i dont really know what happened to s2 :D
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Or you just never turn the computer off (just the monitor). I've got two systems that I use every day that have 99.8% uptime over the last three years. Windows Update reboots, System Upgrades and weather related blackouts accounting for the majority of the 0.2% downtime.

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no standby's it really need to be from a cold boot to the desktop...



would love to but can't afford to do that :(



I did considered that but my primary concern then goes to OS compatability to old games (2000-2007ish)
but I do acknowledge that win 8 boots so fast you don't even have enough time to manually press the BIOS button on your keyboard during boot ;)
 
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well about that let's just say that I'm kind of "overseas" so I'm usually away on months end and really want my PC to boot as fast as I left it before :)
 
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What s3 standby and how do you set it? And do you mean that with fans stopped there are no noise?
 
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in the bios there is an option usually for standby mode (s1 or s3). on s3 the fans and cpu stops and only the ram is left powered. the recovery from it is almost instant and everything stays the way you left it (there's no restart performed).

the downside is if the power shuts down from the wall the system goes off completely and you start from a cold boot instead + you lose anything you had running.

on s1, the cpu and fans all stay powered. only the hdd is stopped i think.

s4 is the hibernate that i hate. what i does is s3+saves the data to hdd. which sucks pretty much if you have a lot of ram. on resume it copies the data back. takes a lot.

i dont really know what happened to s2 :D
 
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