Boot up times

[Gallarian]

Hey guys,

Im currently using a Corsair 120GB Force 3 SSD as my boot drive - from pressing the Power button to having full control over the desktop takes an average of 28 seconds.

This seems kinda slow to me - what do you guys think? Should it be faster?

If so please provide some suggestions to speed things up


Also - I have just bought a Kingston 120GB HyperX 3K SSD. Will the be faster or slower than my current SSD?



Thanks,
Gallarian

 

[benji720]

It depends - how many startup items are you running and what does the rest of your hardware look like? Are you running SATA III or II? And, is your Windows install fresh?

 

[Gallarian]

My Hardware is in my sig, including the fact I use SATA III.

According to 'msconfig' - Im running all services (microsoft, intel, nvidia) - and I have diabled all but 5 startup items (just intel and nvidia stuff)

My Win7 64bit was installed about 2 months ago now.

 

[smorizio]

at boot you have the bios load...that is a fix time and chant be changed..it from the time the bios hands off to window loads that can only be changed. on most mb to save a few sec of boot time..there should be a quick boot or disable splash screen.
on some bios now (asus) they have a delay that you can set from 0-30 sec to get into the bios. with windows itself you can turn off under mis cofig the giu boot screen. that shave a few sec there you wont see the windows loading splash screen.