I can't answer your question for certain, I changed my disk and CPU at the same time. It takes me ~10 sec to start a disposable Firefox, from clicking on the start menu entry to the window popping up (with about 20 VMs running in the background and no heatsink on the SSD).
I used to have an i5 and a 5400rpm drive and it was slow as hell, I couldn't even start two VMs at the same time without one of them crashing. Then a couple years ago I upgraded to Ryzen 7 and a gen3x4 SSD and while things aren't quite as instant as I'd like, it's good. I dunno if you're running / can run at full speed a NVMe drive with the chipset you're on. If not your CPU might be bottlenecking your disk speed, not just your code execution speed. If you're upgrading the CPU you'll have to buy a new motherboard, which is roughly $150 for Ryzens. Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:13 PM, Stumpy <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the response! > > Regarding not being able to tell the difference, I have an older system > (Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz w 32gb mem) with a fairly > new/fast Samsung ssd I got this year but it still takes over 20 sec to > start up a firefox in a fed32 dvm, is that normal? Is it most likely > that the majority of the slowness is attributable to my ancient proc? > > I just want to get a clear idea of where I should focus my spending, > that is on a CPU, faster drives, etc. > > Thanks in advance! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/hRTadzugHnYueeSqOhH1P6vK9niIaWM1gb7XnJoNhOgrxOvS91D_NG2ll_RVZqp6amqjQlD6jcpVpwOCOf05JCuF6NETiAPS-de5qtwVBx0%3D%40protonmail.com.
