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More info?)
I currently have two PC's that I use every day.
1) P4 3.0, Asus P5GD2 MB, 1 gig DDR2 RAM,. ABIT ATI 700X PCI express Video
card, 160GB WD HD
2) AMD64 4000+, Abit AV8 MB, 1 gig DDR Ram, Radeon 8500 Video Card, 2-160GB
WD HD's
PC 2 boots in half the time it take PC 1 to boot. It also blows PC 1 out of
the water in photoShop and Premiere.
What conclusion can be drawn here? Hardware makes a lot of difference.
Jeff
"Ken Blake" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
news:O52WpmtkFHA.3960@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> In news:dc7s6n$9df$1@domitilla.aioe.org,
> bew <bweddl@gmail.com> typed:
>
>> Can someone please direct me to a site or group to find information
>> about how adding memory to XP changes boot-up time?
>
>
> If a computer running Windows XP doesn't have enough RAM, it will do more
> paging, and paging (disk I/O) is mechanical and much slower than
> electronic access to RAM. So if you don't have enough RAM for the
> applications you run, adding memory will improve performance. If you do
> have enough RAM to not page at all, or very little, adding more RAM will
> do almost nothing for you.
>
> But the paragraph above is about performance in general, for a running
> computer. With respect to decreasing boot-up time, adding RAM is likely to
> make a much smaller difference if any.
>
> Besides, my personal view is that the attention many people pay to how
> long it takes to boot is unwarranted. Assuming that the computer's speed
> is otherwise satisfactory, it may not be worth worrying about. Most people
> start their computers once a day or even less frequently. In the overall
> scheme of things, even a few minutes to start up isn't very important.
> Personally I power on my computer when I get up in the morning, then go
> get my coffee. When I come back, it's done booting. I don't know how long
> it took to boot and I don't care.
>
>
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> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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