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15 Oct 2008
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#1 | | Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Scotland |
Boot time Although they haven’t set it as an official objective, it seems Microsoft have set an unofficial target of achieving a sub 15 seconds boot time with Windows 7. On the Windows 7 Engineering blog Michael Fortin stats that:
In the lab, a very good system is one that boots in under 15 seconds.
The fastest I’ve ever managed to get a Windows system to boot is just over a minute, so I’d be amazed if Microsoft do achieve a sub 15 second boot time for Windows 7. I don’t think they will be able to do this alone and will probably need hardware and software manufacturers to play ball.
Do you think it’s achievable? | My System Specs |
| System Manufacturer/Model Number Self build OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64 CPU AMD Phenom II x4 Motherboard Gigabyte 880 Memory 8GB Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce HD Sound Card Realtek HD Audio Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 PSU Thermalake 550w Case XCase Hard Drives 2 x 1TB Internet Speed 8MB |
15 Oct 2008
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#2 | | Windows 8 Pro Standish, Lancashire, England |
A sub 15 second boot time would be awesome, but I just cant see it being achievable out of the lab.
I may even consider shutting my PC down now and again with that sort of boot speed | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number doofenshmirtz evil incorporated OS Windows 8 Pro CPU Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition Motherboard ASRock X79 EXTREME11 Memory 32GB (8x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Dominator Platinum Graphics Card 2x 3GB EVGA GTX 660 Ti Superclocked+ Sound Card Creative Monitor(s) Displays 3 x27" Dell & 2 x 23" Dell Screen Resolution 3 @ 2560x1440 & 2 @ 1920x1080 Keyboard Microsoft Ergononic 7000 Mouse Logitech Performance MX PSU 1500W ThermalTake Toughpower Case Thermaltake Level 10 GT Cooling Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler Hard Drives 240GB Intel 520 Series, 2.5" SSD, SATA III
Intel X25-M SSD - 160GB Internet Speed 34 Mb/s ADSL2+ (Bonded) Antivirus Windows Defender, Malwarebytes Pro Browser Firefox Other Info WinTV NovaTD
HP CP1515n Color Laser
Sony BD-5300S-0B Blu-ray Writer
Microsoft LifeCam Cinema
APC 750i Smart UPS |
15 Oct 2008
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#3 | | W 7 64-bit Ultimate The Lowcountry |
Maybe in the future but now; 15 seconds is too much to hope for!
Later  Ted | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number * BFK Customs * OS W 7 64-bit Ultimate CPU Intel Q9550 Yorkfield Motherboard ASUS P5Q Pro Memory 8GB Dominator 8500C5D Graphics Card ATI : XFX 5870 Sound Card Realtek HD Audio 7-1 Monitor(s) Displays 1x 47" LCD HDMI & 3x 26" LCD HDMI Screen Resolution 1920x1080P & 1920x1200 Keyboard Microsoft 500 Mouse Razer Diamondback 3G PSU Corsair 620HX Case Cooler Master RC-690 Cooling Tuniq Tower 120, 2x 140mm and 3x 120mm case fans Hard Drives 1x 80GB Intel X25-M G2 SSD : 1x 500GB & 1x 640GB WD Caviar Black(s) Internet Speed 14 Mb/s Other Info 1x Koutech 3Gb/s SATA HDD Hot Swap Rack |
16 Oct 2008
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#4 | | Windows 8 Pro Standish, Lancashire, England |
I wonder if this is achievable using SSD's | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number doofenshmirtz evil incorporated OS Windows 8 Pro CPU Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition Motherboard ASRock X79 EXTREME11 Memory 32GB (8x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Dominator Platinum Graphics Card 2x 3GB EVGA GTX 660 Ti Superclocked+ Sound Card Creative Monitor(s) Displays 3 x27" Dell & 2 x 23" Dell Screen Resolution 3 @ 2560x1440 & 2 @ 1920x1080 Keyboard Microsoft Ergononic 7000 Mouse Logitech Performance MX PSU 1500W ThermalTake Toughpower Case Thermaltake Level 10 GT Cooling Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler Hard Drives 240GB Intel 520 Series, 2.5" SSD, SATA III
Intel X25-M SSD - 160GB Internet Speed 34 Mb/s ADSL2+ (Bonded) Antivirus Windows Defender, Malwarebytes Pro Browser Firefox Other Info WinTV NovaTD
HP CP1515n Color Laser
Sony BD-5300S-0B Blu-ray Writer
Microsoft LifeCam Cinema
APC 750i Smart UPS |
16 Oct 2008
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#5 | | |
Less than 15 seconds, cold boot? Maybe if they use some kind of re-writable ram chip for the under the hood business at boot time. I'm sure PC's in the future will be faster than 15 seconds. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell XPS 420 OS Windows 7 RC CPU Intel Q6600 Quad Core Motherboard Dell Proprietary Memory 4 GB DDR 800 Graphics Card Nvidia 8800GT Sound Card Integrated - Sigmatel HD Audio Monitor(s) Displays Dual Dell 22" Wide Screen Screen Resolution 3360x1050 Keyboard Dell USB Mouse Wireless MS mouse PSU Big Enough Case Dell XPS 420 Cooling Air Hard Drives 320 GB internal
2.5 TB external Internet Speed DSL 3MB Down Other Info WEI 5.9 (Windows 7 RC), Not too bad for an off the shelf PC :) |
17 Oct 2008
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#6 | | Windows 8 Pro Standish, Lancashire, England |
| My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number doofenshmirtz evil incorporated OS Windows 8 Pro CPU Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition Motherboard ASRock X79 EXTREME11 Memory 32GB (8x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Dominator Platinum Graphics Card 2x 3GB EVGA GTX 660 Ti Superclocked+ Sound Card Creative Monitor(s) Displays 3 x27" Dell & 2 x 23" Dell Screen Resolution 3 @ 2560x1440 & 2 @ 1920x1080 Keyboard Microsoft Ergononic 7000 Mouse Logitech Performance MX PSU 1500W ThermalTake Toughpower Case Thermaltake Level 10 GT Cooling Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler Hard Drives 240GB Intel 520 Series, 2.5" SSD, SATA III
Intel X25-M SSD - 160GB Internet Speed 34 Mb/s ADSL2+ (Bonded) Antivirus Windows Defender, Malwarebytes Pro Browser Firefox Other Info WinTV NovaTD
HP CP1515n Color Laser
Sony BD-5300S-0B Blu-ray Writer
Microsoft LifeCam Cinema
APC 750i Smart UPS |
17 Oct 2008
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#7 | | |
Instant on is good.
Now if we could get the pc to anticipate what we were going to do/open/manage, that would be a trick | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell XPS 420 OS Windows 7 RC CPU Intel Q6600 Quad Core Motherboard Dell Proprietary Memory 4 GB DDR 800 Graphics Card Nvidia 8800GT Sound Card Integrated - Sigmatel HD Audio Monitor(s) Displays Dual Dell 22" Wide Screen Screen Resolution 3360x1050 Keyboard Dell USB Mouse Wireless MS mouse PSU Big Enough Case Dell XPS 420 Cooling Air Hard Drives 320 GB internal
2.5 TB external Internet Speed DSL 3MB Down Other Info WEI 5.9 (Windows 7 RC), Not too bad for an off the shelf PC :) |
17 Oct 2008
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#8 | | W 7 64-bit Ultimate The Lowcountry |
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Later  Ted | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number * BFK Customs * OS W 7 64-bit Ultimate CPU Intel Q9550 Yorkfield Motherboard ASUS P5Q Pro Memory 8GB Dominator 8500C5D Graphics Card ATI : XFX 5870 Sound Card Realtek HD Audio 7-1 Monitor(s) Displays 1x 47" LCD HDMI & 3x 26" LCD HDMI Screen Resolution 1920x1080P & 1920x1200 Keyboard Microsoft 500 Mouse Razer Diamondback 3G PSU Corsair 620HX Case Cooler Master RC-690 Cooling Tuniq Tower 120, 2x 140mm and 3x 120mm case fans Hard Drives 1x 80GB Intel X25-M G2 SSD : 1x 500GB & 1x 640GB WD Caviar Black(s) Internet Speed 14 Mb/s Other Info 1x Koutech 3Gb/s SATA HDD Hot Swap Rack |
18 Oct 2008
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#9 | | |
sub 15 sec boot....
maybe achievable with an SSD, a 10.000rpm 32mb SATA 2 RAPTOR, a highly OCed CPU (or a core I7 chip), super fast RAM, & Windows 7 .......maybe ???
all less powerful rigs will never hit that target no matter how well the new OS is coded.  SK | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number myself OS SEVEN x64 CPU Q9450 @ 3.6GHZ 1.34v Motherboard ASUS P5K PREMIUM P35 Memory 8GB 1066 buffalo firestix @ 1152mhz CL5 Graphics Card Sapphire HD 5970 + GTX260 (physX) Sound Card Creative X-FI Xtreme Gamer Monitor(s) Displays SAMSUNG 20'' & SAMSUNG 23'' (dual screens) Screen Resolution 2048x1152 & 1680x1050 Keyboard LOGITECH E110 Mouse logitech NX5 PSU XCILIO 850w (78A) Case CM590 1x 120x38mm & 2x92x38mm / 4x 120x25mm Cooling AC7 PRO @ 92x38mm blower, Lamptron military bus bay controll Hard Drives 1x seagate 160gb IDE & 1x seagate 160gb SATA Internet Speed 2MB Other Info its a continual ''work in progress''.... |
18 Oct 2008
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#10 | | Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 QC, Canada |
A 15-sec boot would be awesome. I think we'll need Quad-Core to so or highly OC'ed Dual Cores. | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom build OS Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 CPU Core i7 950 3.06 GHz Motherboard Gigabyte X58A-UD3R Memory Corsair XSM3 6GB 1333MHz DDR3 9-9-9-24 Graphics Card Asus nVidia GeForce GTX460 Factory Overclocked Sound Card HT-Omega Claro 7.1 Monitor(s) Displays Asus VW246H 24" Screen Resolution 1920x1080 Keyboard Logitech K350 Mouse Logitech M510 PSU Xigmatek NRP-PC702 700W (cable hell) Case Lian-Li Lancool PC-K62 Cooling Stock fans for PC case, Cooler Master Hyper N520 for CPU Hard Drives 1x90GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD (System, internal)
1x1TB Western Digital Green (Internal)
1x1TB Samsung/Seagate 7200RPM (Internal)
1x500GB Hitachi 7200RPM (Internal) Internet Speed 30Mbits dl - 10Mbits up Browser Firefox v20 Other Info Sound system : Eagle Arion ET-AR504LR-BK 35 Watts RMS 2.1
Printer : Samsung ML-2010 Mono
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