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UEFI and boot times, does it change anything?

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JeremyCT

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It's a bit of a weird question. My current rig is P45 based, and one aspect of it that's driven me a bit batty since building is its time to POST and start loading the OS. From pressing the power switch to hitting the bootloader is 35 seconds. Yet I have a very old Shuttle PC in the corner with single core AMD CPU, and it gets to the load screen in about 10 seconds. So the newer, faster, more advanced hardware takes longer to get going. What good is having an OS that'll boot in 20 seconds if it takes 35 seconds just for the system to start loading it??

Despite that it's a spec I never see mentioned in hardware reviews at all for some reason. Maybe I'm a member of a very small minority that notices such things. I'm currently trying to spec a system within a budget for a friend. His priorities and mine generally mesh nicely. It'll most likely be a 2500k build, and I've noticed that most motherboards are using UEFI, but some are still using BIOS.

I'm aware of the security advantages of UEFI and that Windows 8 will likely use/require it for certain features, but does it change that "time to bootloader" time at all? Has anybody ever reviewed this particular factor across an array of manufacturers? Is it chipset dependent? Do more motherboard features mean it's slower to get to the boatloader? Does P67 fare better than z68 in this regard? :dunno:

Any light you guys might be able to shine on this would be greatly appreciated.
 
Do more motherboard features mean it's slower to get to the boatloader? << More features enabled in the bios surely can slow booting times. Raid enabled in bios is often a big time eater.
 
Do more motherboard features mean it's slower to get to the boatloader? << More features enabled in the bios surely can slow booting times. Raid enabled in bios is often a big time eater.

Y'know, I read that so many times that I actually believed it. The last time I re-did my system I completely dismantled my BIOS-based RAID0 and went with separate drives. Time from power button to bootloader didn't change by even 1 second.
 
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