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Computer Help and Support

hobbit709

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1. SSDs work wonders.

Reply to Fumesucker (Original post)

Fri Nov 28, 2014, 06:19 AM

Nov 2014

My Patriot Pyro 120 Gb gives me 16 seconds from power on to desktop and rolling. I have several things I want it to load on bootup and it still loads that fast.
I regularly go through my drive and clean out junk files, etc. I keep absolutely no data files of any type on my boot drive.

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From two minutes and twenty seven seconds to nineteen seconds: A Boot Time Odyssey [View all] Fumesucker Nov 2014 OP

SSDs work wonders. hobbit709 Nov 2014 #1

I'm not that good at staying on top of it, obviously.. Fumesucker Nov 2014 #2

I have three different folding@home apps running in the background automatically. hobbit709 Nov 2014 #3

I had I think a 100 or so core graphics processor doing that a few years ago Fumesucker Nov 2014 #4