Builds with Fast Boot Times

[fogal]

I have just bought some new (old) parts which I am trying to get to boot as fast as possible. I used to run RAID 0 hdds for program files previously and this used to slow my boot times up as bios took a while. Now ive turned it off i was hoping to get a really fast boot with my SSD and some other improved parts. So I have upgraded from an old i7 870 to a still old i7 3820 (this was laying around so was free however want a 4000 i7) and P9X79 LE and intend to load it with lots more high speed RAM. However currently i have:

Build: (Windows 10)
P9X79 LE Motherboard
i7 3820 CPU
Nvidia 970 GPU
2 x 4GB 1333Mhz RAM
500GB Kingston V300 SSD
2tb WD Green HDD
2 x 1TB Samsung HDD

I am seeing a lot of people hitting under 10 second boot times and anything as low as like 4 seconds and i'm just wondering on how this is getting done. I see that on my motherboard Spec page is said 2 second boot is possible but i'm not sure how as at the min fastest i have is 11 seconds but can vary up to about 24 seconds.

Windows is installed on an SSD with a completely fresh version 2 days ago. I have enabled fast boot in windows and there are no start up programs listed. Installed using UEFI. In bios i have disabled CSM, set logo off, post delay to 1 second, and disabled all other drives from boot. Has anyone achieved a <5 second boot with this motherboard and where is my issue?

 

[Vic 40]

Don't think people see problems with load times like that.

The "fast boot " option is enabled in the bios/uefi? I assume it's there ...
Sticks of ram are in the optimal slots? Are pretty low speed,also no quad channel i see ...

Thought about just using sleep mode?

Is another thing,from when they count ... with the very low load times probably counted from after the bios and maybe just to see the windows screen.They might even use a raid from ssd's or a M.2 ssd.

 

[fogal]

It's not a problem so much as curiosity and a want as to how it is done. Yeah fast boot is on. I am still on my old slow ram as i just tend to slowly upgrade over time so will just add 2 x 8gb of ram each month now for 4 months or something to get that motherboard filled up 😛 They are in A1 and B1 however.

I am thinking my best option is an m.2 drive for the boot drive as these are about 4 times quicker that SATA and maybe a new i7 at somepoint but i see a lot of laptops and stuff doing it insanely quick and i know my old surface pro was also a few second boot just curious as how they are doing it with worse specs.

 

[Vic 40]

just curious as how they are doing it with worse specs.

Hard to say for sure,probably a mix of hardware and bios tricks. Can't even be sure they don't cheat and not really are off,but just have the os in a deep sleep state.

 

[fogal]

Yeah its strange i played with the build i did for me bro and his was similar with about 10 second boot. What was different however was it seemed to only 2 seconds loading windows and rest was post. Unsure if its maybe loading in background prior to this as it seems too quick for windows to load in 2 seconds.

 

[Vic 40]

He uses the same ssd? Boottimes might differ per maker/model.
Two seconds seems really really fast btw ....