High BIOS time

[maiskrj]

I've noticed that my bios time is around 12-15 seconds with a quite decent pc while my friends with way worse pcs have around 3 seconds ? 

these are my specs : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LsCmPF

[RONOTHAN##]

It's basically the amount of time your system takes to POST. Newer platforms are taking much longer to do so than older platforms (much more complex memory training, for instance), it's just that once they POST they're much faster than modern platforms. For reference, my 13700K/DDR5 build had a last BIOS time of 20.2 seconds, while if I go back and use my old 4670K it will likely be more in the neighborhood of 3-5 seconds depending on how much RAM I threw in there just because of how much more complicated the boot procedure is on the modern systems. There's no way I'd go back to the old build, everything (including raw boot times) are faster on the new system, but DDR3 training takes a fraction of the time DDR5 training takes and therefore POST times are longer on the newer system. 

 

Besides, that stat only matters if you're constantly rebooting your system. In all reality it just doesn't matter. There's a couple BIOS settings you can sometimes play with to help (Fast Boot is the big one), but they aren't really worth the effort and stability issues they can cause (rare but I've had issues with them) for 1-2 seconds less time with something that you do 1-2 times a day at most. 

[maiskrj]

thank you very much, i was worried that maybe my disks were the issue, but my disk health is 97% and ive had it for about a year and a half, so i was trying to find out the issue.