Z170X Gaming 6 Boot Times

[droidz]

Hey guys

I've been searching all day to no avail so I'm hoping to get some help here. I just completed my first build with the gaming 6, an 850 Evo SSD, i7 6700k, MSI R9 390, and vengeance 16gb RAM. My boot time from the moment I install windows to when i fully set all my programs/drivers/settings to my liking is always around 25s to windows / 28 to fully log in.

I'm seeing some people on reddit etc. able to boot under 10s with the gaming 3, 5, 7 (haven't found posts about the 6), and I'm just wondering: is there something I can change with my BIOS settings, or is there something faulty with my hardware, or are my software settings/installation not done correctly? A 25s vs. 10s boot time doesn't really bug me, except that I may have gotten faulty hardware so now would be the time to go in for an exchange .

for reference, I've checked my ssd in samsung magician and it reads/writes fine, I'm booting from UEFI, I'm still on F2 BIOS (newest version is F3), my MB temperatures at idle are around 30C, with one of the five sensors always 10C above the rest (this is normal, yes?).

Most of the time is spent hung up on the Ga logo. 7 seconds for it to show up (blank screen), 7 seconds for spinning wheels to come up, another 6 to get to login.

thanks

[shadowsports]

This is relative and depends largely on your environment.  My Z97 is not heavily loaded and boots to desktop in 13s. I'm using Fast Boot Mode (suggest you not use Ultra Fast) as it can be hard to get into BIOS after this  .

Boot time increases the more software you install, especially those applications that load themselves at boot time.  25s for an EVO is respectable. 

The only thing that will get you faster boot times is decreasing the number of installed applications that load at boot time, or moving to m.2. 

RAID won't likely help with boot (on a typically loaded system) but would give better read/write performance when performing disk intensive tasks.

Bottleneck in this case is the EVO (disk I/O), but again not something to shake a stick at.  You've got a nice rig, fast CPU, plenty of RAM and a great GPU.  I'm sure you will easily see 100+ FPS during gaming.

[polypenko]

I have a z170x gaming 7 / Samsung pro 950 (256gb) i7 6700k / 2 x 8gb Kingston, 1 wd blue 1tb, 1 wd red 2 tb and 1 blue 4tb for storage.
During the boot I switched off as much as possible and it still takes 25 / 28 seconds, before W10 pro 64 bits
is completely loaded.

Did a test by removing all three hd's, but it did not change the boot time substantially.

[dmdilks]

Tell us how you got your bios set. Not just UEFI. Did you change the other OS to windows 8/10 and disable CSM. My windows 7 boots in less time on a gaming 3. You booting from the windows boot manager or from that M2 drive.