Windows Boot Timer Benchmarks

rhysduck · 17 Nov 2009 at 02:24

rhysduck said:
Desktop:
Athlon 64 3400 2.520Ghz
1Gb
Sata 250gb HDD

Shambolic

Laptop: Celeron M410 1.46ghz
1Gb
SATA 80Gb HDD
XP SP3

A slightly better result

Aedus · 17 Nov 2009 at 04:40

I ordered windows 7 today along with a shiny new 1Tb Samsung F3 HDD (To tide me over till I can afford an SSD), so come Wednesday hopefully my boot times should be a little better

Zarf · 17 Nov 2009 at 07:19

Shash said:
Oh dear, man that takes me back. I feel less shortchanged having such a fast boot now. But I don't really notice a massive difference at the moment with my SSD. Need to get back into gaming and such :X

It's like getting a bigger TV or a new audio system, only really hits you how much better your new setup is if you go back to the old setup - the old setup performs better in your memorys than in reality. If you go back now you'll find tons of stuff starting to niggle at you that you were happy to accept before.

Combat Fighter · 17 Nov 2009 at 22:50

Not bad.

Win 7 64

terryuk22 · 19 Nov 2009 at 03:27

20 secs on a acer laptop (windows xp)

Mr.Bon · 19 Nov 2009 at 04:19

Shash said:
Intel X25-M G2 - 160GB
Q6600 @ 3.6ghz P5K Premium
Fresh Windows 7 x64

9 Second Computer, that is crazy....

Why do some people have fresh OS, is it coincidence or done on purpose to get a quick time (genuine question)

Zarf · 19 Nov 2009 at 05:43

Mr.Bon said:
9 Second Computer, that is crazy....

Why do some people have fresh OS, is it coincidence or done on purpose to get a quick time (genuine question)

Remember, it's only 9 seconds for windows, the POST probably adds another 20 seconds or so before windows starts loading.

As to fresh OS's, Win7 has recently come out, so it's not surprising that many people have clean installs. Other people might keep a dual boot setup clean just for benchmarking runs.

Mr.Bon · 19 Nov 2009 at 20:18

Oh I see thanks for clearing that up Zarf.

rancid_elf · 20 Nov 2009 at 09:58

Well I dont want to make you all cry but my fastest ever was a cut down Windows Xp installed on a raid 0 I-Ram setup. Booted in 1.2 seconds

rancid_elf · 20 Nov 2009 at 10:00

Mr.Bon said:
9 Second Computer, that is crazy....

Why do some people have fresh OS, is it coincidence or done on purpose to get a quick time (genuine question)

Its always faster to boot on clean install. When you start adding windows update and applications these all add to the registry. When windows boots it has to go through all registry entries and sort out all backend applications.

Long Story Short.... A clean install will always be faster.

Dervious · 21 Nov 2009 at 10:18

rancid_elf said:
Its always faster to boot on clean install. When you start adding windows update and applications these all add to the registry. When windows boots it has to go through all registry entries and sort out all backend applications.

Long Story Short.... A clean install will always be faster.

I was concerned about my boot time of 23 seconds, but I have Win 7 64 with Avast, ATI drivers, all updates and drivers, Open Office, a couple of games and applications. Also, I can pretty much use my PC as soon as the desktop appears, so in reality, my boot time is very quick. That`s not to say that I`m not interested in benchmarks - if only I could get a time of under 20 seconds

Hotwired · 21 Nov 2009 at 10:27

rancid_elf said:
Well I dont want to make you all cry but my fastest ever was a cut down Windows Xp installed on a raid 0 I-Ram setup. Booted in 1.2 seconds

Too much of a benchmark for the sake of the benchmark :/

Mik3 · 22 Nov 2009 at 23:18

43 Sec 500GB Samsung F3, Windows 7 Ultimate X64. I get a SSD this week so I'll retest then.

sambot · 24 Dec 2009 at 03:57

14 seconds on vertex 30gb 1.3fw
windows 7 x64

Nuwidol · 24 Dec 2009 at 22:53

3X OCZ Vertex Raid 0
[email protected]
Win7 x64

rixx · 27 Dec 2009 at 05:57

Hi there Gents,

Im hitting 29-31s booting up at the moment on a brand new Crucial 128 M225 SSD (FW 1819).

Need some help from you guys to put this into context? Anything I should be worried about in term of the way I've setup W7 x64 ultimate?

AS SSD and Crystal Disk Mark all show slightly better read/write speeds than what others have been getting from this drive - so it's strange that I should be taking much longer booting up?

I've installed ALL windows updates as well as Office updates have quite a few apps/games installed (only 20GB remaining). ALSO - I've moved my whole Users folder to a separate HD (mechanical drive and not particularly fast to say the least).

Would appreciate anyone's feedback and help on this..

Nuwidol · 27 Dec 2009 at 20:48

rixx said:
Hi there Gents,

Im hitting 29-31s booting up at the moment on a brand new Crucial 128 M225 SSD (FW 1819).

Need some help from you guys to put this into context? Anything I should be worried about in term of the way I've setup W7 x64 ultimate?

AS SSD and Crystal Disk Mark all show slightly better read/write speeds than what others have been getting from this drive - so it's strange that I should be taking much longer booting up?

I've installed ALL windows updates as well as Office updates have quite a few apps/games installed (only 20GB remaining). ALSO - I've moved my whole Users folder to a separate HD (mechanical drive and not particularly fast to say the least).

Would appreciate anyone's feedback and help on this..

how many programmes are loading at start up?

DavyBoy · 27 Dec 2009 at 22:14

2 x 40GB Kingston SSDNow in RAID-0

i7 920 @ 4GHz
6GB Corsair Dominator
Win7 Ultimate

Drives are half full, and the Windows install is fairly old.. (I cloned my OS from my old Raptors to the SSD's on xmas night.)

sambot · 3 Jan 2010 at 03:49

Nuwidol said:
3X OCZ Vertex Raid 0
[email protected]
Win7 x64

i expected those to be more than 1.5 seconds faster than my single vertex :eek:

timmymeuk1 · 3 Jan 2010 at 18:51

mine is 26 seconds with i5 @ 3.4 and on a 500gb 32mb cache hdd, how much speed increase would i see if i got a ssd?