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Loading: Windows start-up

Régis Jehl
Updated: October 27, 2009
Test and analysis
Here's something that will interest a lot of people: Windows load time. Most people think that the more memory you have the faster the start-up time. What do we get in practice?

Damn! No difference on our low-end PC! The system takes the same time whether we have 2 GB or 4 GB of RAM.

For the high-end machine, it's interesting to see that it starts slightly slower than on the low-end machine! The difference is very small and in fact, the limiting factor isn't the memory but rather the hard drive used.

Here are the results that we obtained on our entry-level machine, then on our high-end machine.

Entry-level machine (Core 2 Duo) - Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
Start-up time in seconds: low is good

High-level machine (Core i7) - Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
                         Start-up time in seconds: low is good

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