Windows 7 + Core i7-860 + SSD App Launch Demo

From my blog post "SSDs: Are You Experienced?" -- after Jimi Hendrix: http://computingkeith.com/2010/08/03/ssd-are-you-experienced/.

Watch actual launch speed of applications on a custom-built Core i7-860 running Windows 7 Ultimate on a Kingston V-Series 128GB SSD (boot drive). This thing really flies... While the SSD was pricey for a single piece of equipment -- at $250, it cost as much as the Core i7-860 processor itself -- I knew immediately that it was the right decision.

Screencast was taken immediately after reboot, so no applications are preloaded, and the video is not altered in any way.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Windows
• Ultimate
• Core
• i7-860
• SSD
• Launch
• Speed

[mahlithebest]

my apps launch quickly and I'm on an old O.C'd Pentium E5200 @ 3ghz.

The only thing an i7 is good for is been able to do more at once and for playing games... a test like this, doesn't really show off its full potential... if this is all you do with your PC... You wasted an i7.

[keithbluestone]

@mahlithebest It's not meant to show off "its full potential." It's meant to show how fast launching apps is with a modern CPU and a SSD.

[TheVideosfactory]

nice system dude. tell me which on motherboard do u have with that i7?

[keithbluestone]

@TheVideosfactory It's an ASUS P7P55D-E. A year and a half later, and most of it is probably out of stock... but my goal was to create a system that would last well at least five years. It still is pretty blazing, faster than any other system I've used.

[rajah010203]

You ur lucky 

[thelegendbullet937]

This makes me want to make a batch file to open everything in my program files folder xP

I'm running a Patriot Inferno 60GB with an i7 2600K... needless to say it would be like watching fireworks ^_^