I have a Patriot Torqx 128Gb boot drive in a Intel 980x box. 6GB DDR3, Nvidia GTX 470. Boot time on Win 7 is about 25 seconds, Compile times for C++ on Visual Studio 2008 is half the time using the SSD drive vs a separate 7200 rpm 1GB WD drive. Other programs start up and shut down much faster also. How about MS Office, double click the icon and it is initialized and downloading (via cable) within 1.2 seconds. This is with four .pst files of about 600MB each. The SSD is the biggest factor in speeding up this system. I did a test install on the 1GB drive, and boot times were about 90 seconds. Not a gamer, so I cannot comment on the effects there. Then again, recent games generally need more space than available on a reasonably priced SSD drive.