Hello everyone,
This concerns the Z77 chipset with Intel CPU
The following question I asked on another forum, and some ASUS models where suggested, but I am interested to see what Gigabyte has to offer, if anything like this is available. I am looking for building a computer for someone.
I am interested in Fast post and booting with Win8.
I mean, I want: this fast (or close to it):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc_PXEpq5ic&t=0m24sNot this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LbodgChn7wI personally have a Gigabyte motherboard now, with Win7, and oh god it takes ages to POST, and the GPU does not help.
In my case, (GA-X58A-UD5 rev 2.0 - i7 930 - 6GB of RAM - OCZ Vertex 4 - AHCI mode SATA controller - Win7 64-bit) the time it take for my system from me pressing the power button to when the OS loads is (so no OS load):
27secGPU boot:
17sec (This is the big problem)
Windows 7 (to desktop):
13secThe entire process with Win7:
42secMeasurements are not scientific, they were where measured by me, so allow 1-2sec of error per measurement.
Now, from my understanding, to get fast POST from the GPU, you need one that support something called GOP, which only works on EUFI BIOS based systems. Does Gigabyte offer that for it's GTX 600 series? How fast does Gigabytes motherboard post and starts windows when under EUFI mode?