What server are you trying this on?
What client are you running? Titanium? SoF?
Load time isn't just about how awesome your computer is. It's also about the server giving you the data to allow you to see things.
One of the bigger parts of load time is your hard drive I/O speed.
Processor and GFX card are for on the fly rendering of preloaded data, but for what you're talking about it's really a question of how fast data gets off your hard drive and into RAM. If this process is slow, no matter how fast your processor and gfx card or ram may be, your bottle neck is going to be your hard drive.
In the last 10 years most rigs are still using about the same hard drives they were speed wise. I've been using a 7200 RPM hard drive for a long time.. Sure they have made improvements to give better speed in 10 years, but really the focus has more been on the size of your drive. Size != Speed on hard drives, typically it's the opposite unless you have a bottomless pocket of cash (15k rpm hard drive that's like a terabyte . not sure it even exists and if it does it'll be rediculously priced, while 1 terabyte 7200 rpm drive is cheap). The changes in drives is not significant like your video card or CPU in comparison of 10 years.
If you have a 10krpm or 15k rpm drive or some rediculously priced solid state high performance drive then you may have a bottle neck some where else, like the server neglecting you data to load.
Another option is preloading all of EQ into RAM. But that'd take the entire directory's worth of RAM (~4 gigs?) and not too familiar how to do it on a Windows machine. Your instance of EQ as it loads would take up a seperate chunk of ram (and since this game for minimal loading is taking about a gig, thta's already 5 gigs used, each time you zone you may hit virtual memory and resort to HDD I/O again and almost screws the load time.. not to mention your O/S and other running apps are using ram too), but it'd give the illusion of very fast load times if you got the RAM, at the cost of going for coffee while the entire game is loaded in RAM at the start. XD
~Shin Noir
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