Help a noob in pc boot time

[NoobPotato]

Hello. 

 

This is my first time building a pc. But something grind my gears, regarding the boot time of my pc. At best it can boot at 18+ seconds from cold boot. And sometimes went up to 40+ seconds. Last bios time at best is 11.8 seconds and went up to 30 seconds. Most of the time wasted at POST or screen before windows loaded. Loading windows takes around 5 seconds roughly. Not even 1 circle completed before the windows is fully booted. The rest is all at post. I had this pc around two weeks at the time of posting.

 

My question is, why is my boot time so inconsistent? Is 18 seconds considered fast? Because to me, it is not. My laptop with i3 6200u and ssd (kingston A400) boot at around 15 seconds consistently. Any tips on what i can check or change settings to help? I tried most of the tips that i can find by googling. Thus, the 18 seconds boot time. If it good enough i can learn to accept that. But if you have any suggestions that i can try to improve my boot time please let me know. And also ways to improve POST performance.

 

Specs are as followed:

 

MSI B360m Mortar Titanium

i5 9400f

Zotac RTX 2060

Intel ssd 660p 512gb

Hyper X fury 8gb x 2

Cooler Master MWE Gold 550 Fully Modular

Some cheap cooler called Aigo with 4 fans

 

Sorry if it hard to understand. English is not my first language. I will try to explain better if necessary.

 

[xentropa]

18 seconds from button press to winlogon screen is pretty fast in my opinion.  I think nvidia drivers alone add 3 seconds ish to the boot time.

 

You could use hiberboot if you want a faster boot time, but personally I don't like hiberboot.

[NoobPotato]

3 minutes ago, xentropa said:

18 seconds from button press to winlogon screen is pretty fast in my opinion.  I think nvidia drivers alone add 3 seconds ish to the boot time.

 

You could use hiberboot if you want a faster boot time, but personally I don't like hiberboot.

You are correct. 18 seconds is from button press to seeing windows desktop. Maybe if i can get consistent result, i would be okay. But because it can goes up to 40+ seconds is really weird and inconsistent.

 

Mind explaining what is hiberboot and why you don't like it?

[Constantin]

From button press to winlogon screen, it takes 16sec on my PC.

I consider this time quite fast.

[NoobPotato]

2 minutes ago, Constantin said:

From button press to winlogon screen, it takes 16sec on my PC.

I consider this time quite fast.

Is your boot time consistent? Because mine doesn't. And that's what makes it weird.

[Constantin]

1 minute ago, NoobPotato said:

Is your boot time consistent?

Yes it is.

[NoobPotato]

4 minutes ago, Constantin said:

Yes it is.

I see. So i guess something's wrong with pc causing it to be inconsistent.

[Constantin]

You should invest a little bit more money for the Mobo, it's not that good

EDIT: RAM play a significant role in boot time.

What are the RAM specs.

I see in your Mobo that it doesn't support higher than 2666 MHz.... way to slow....

[NoobPotato]

9 minutes ago, Constantin said:

You should invest a little bit more money for the Mobo, it's not that good

EDIT: RAM play a significant role in boot time.

What are the RAM specs.

I see in your Mobo that it doesn't support higher than 2666 MHz.... way to slow....

I see. This is my first time building pc. And honestly i don't really do full research because i thought it wouldn't make such a big difference considering my laptop with much lower spec can boot faster.