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    Default Re: HUGE Improvement in Turn Time!

    Quote Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios View Post
    Well I'd guess you went up from 5400rpm to 7200rpm and the former is no contender with the latter all other things being equal (and I presume they're not given how fast HD tech moves, so the old disk wouldn't've been a contender anyways). A possibility is that your OS swaps parts of RAM to HD when playing EB, something which should've gained a massive boost simply from improved sequential read times, however... that begs the question why you'd get away with 1:15 previously... (swapping trashes performance, due to the fact that a HD is easily a factor of 1000 slower than any RAM).

    actually, my old boot drive is 7200 rpm like the new one. the new one is a Western Digital Caviar Black and is known to be a pretty fast drive. next up is to replace the motherboard with one that has SATA II ports...
    Last edited by mcantu; 03-09-2009 at 16:46.
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