In the past two years, the price of SSD hard drives has been declining. Now many installed users prefer SSDs as system disks, which can greatly improve storage speed and boot speed, and are sought after by many DIY hardware players.
Intel's latest Haswell platform can support SATA3.0 natively, making the speed of ordinary SATA2.0 based on speed, and then speeding up, especially in SATA3.0 with SSD hard drive, and the boot speed is increased to 10 Within seconds. Let's teach you to increase the speed of SSD to the maximum. Use the i7 4770K+ Soyo H87+ energy-saving version to enter the 6-second fast boot design.
This test uses the latest Haswell i7 4770K processor and the Soyo H87+ energy-saving version. This motherboard uses ATX large-board design, based on Intel's new H87 chipset design, seven-phase power supply, Compatible with all LGA1150 Haswell processors. The test memory used is the CHICHI DDR3 1600 4G, plus the Windows8 64bit system, which can fully utilize the host performance of Intel's fourth-generation processor.
Microsoft's newly released Windows 8 system, beyond traditional design, enhances touch control and human-computer interaction platform interaction. In addition, compared with the previous generation Windows7 system, Windows 8 also provides a number of excellent technologies, such as kernel sleep technology, IE10 browser optimized touch browsing experience, native USB3.0 support, etc., which brings more choices for users' control experience. .
The platform starts, the system self-test takes too long, from pressing the power button to the time when the win8 start menu takes 15 seconds, this time to enter 6 seconds, how to make Windows 8 have a very fast switch What is the effect? This is thanks to the "quick start" function provided by Windows 8.
If not enabled, press Win+i shortcut – control panel – power option – select power button function – change currently unavailable settings – shutdown settings – tick enable fast start (Recommended), select the function of the power button, you can see that the long press of the power button is off, this time set to sleep.
There is no need to set a password when waking up, and set the shutdown settings as shown above. Remember to set the settings to save by clicking the “Save Settings" button.
Windows 8's quick start feature is located in the "Power Options" & ldquo; System Settings ", literally, we can easily understand that it is a function to make the Windows 8 system start faster and increase, we This feature is enabled by default after Windows 8 is installed. Of course, you can also turn it off by changing the settings.
Oh, let me introduce the detailed setup steps of the quick start function of Windows 8, then we will verify how this function can help Windows 8 fast boot. This is the startup log that comes with the windows8 system. We can get the time from startup to entry into the system: 6 seconds.
Intel Haswell platform: Soyo SY-H87+ 3E + I7 4770K + SSD solid state hard drive combination has quite good performance, the price of the motherboard is also cheap, definitely the first choice for installation, from the performance of all aspects of the test. Especially in conjunction with the Windows8 operating system, it is like a tiger. Interested friends, you can also try the 6-second boot settings.