Windows Boot Timer Benchmarks

timmymeuk1 said:
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?
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An SSD will shine during general use, though boot up times of Windows, applications and games in increase also. It is difficult to say in terms of time but check out the many benchmarks on the web which compare SSDs to HDDs. At the moment given the price of SDDs it doesn't justify the difference in performance, to me anyway :)

Anyways, here is my boot time on Windows 7 Pro x64 with a few games, Avast AV, office 2008 and the usual applications and driviers using a single Seagate HDD. The post will add around 6-7 seconds to this time.

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I've just ran this program on my work PC (P4 2.4 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, ancient HDD) and it returned a time of 284.625 seconds!!! :eek:

I've not tried this at home on my own PC yet which boots Windows 7 Home Premium x64 from a Crucial CT128M225 SSD but I know it is a hell of a lot faster than my work one!

One think puzzles me though, at what point does this program start timing and when does it finish? Does it start immediately after POST and only stop once Windows has stopped accessing the drive? I have ExpressGate enabled on my PC and I know that adds at least 5 seconds to the loading time, including a 3 second pause before it starts loading Windows.
 
44 seconds for me with a Samsung 7200 half-full 500GB hard drive. Windows 7 about 3 months old, and with loads of programs and stuff. :D

Love precision.
 
Well the time it took for my CT128M225 SSD to boot into Windows 7 which also loads EVGA Precision, MSSE, RivaTuner and numerous sidebar gadgets was 26.something seconds so I was happy with that. The ExpressGate screen and POST adds another 10-15 seconds to that time though to be fair.

Still that's a hell of a lot quicker that my old Vista installation which seemed to still be churning away at the HDD five minutes after I'd booted Windows up!!!
 
I ran C_Wiper and got my boot time down to 23.790 seconds.

Why does my drive only score 6.9 in the Windows Experience Index test though? I've seen other people with the same drive on here score 7.3? Is it because I'm running it in IDE mode? :confused:
 
I've just noticed that my bootup times have improved noticeably since I reduced the Time Out value of the BIOS CD/DVD and HDD settings from 35 to 5 seconds. Seems like my PC now boots up in 15 seconds to the desktop appearing, including POST. I'll run this Boot Timer over the weekend... if I can stay off Mass Effect 2 long enough to run it.
 
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