true or false

[INotPablo]

I have heard a rumor that says that MSI motherboards take a little longer to turn on, is this true?

[RONOTHAN##]

That's a broad generalization that doesn't hold much water in my experience. Sure, there's a couple models from them that take a while to boot compared to competing boards, but the opposide is also true with some other boards. 

 

Also, how often are you rebooting your system that the amount of time it takes to POST actually matters?

[freeagent]

I would assume it would depend what is enabled on the mobo.. sometimes you can shave some time by disabling things that you don't need, such as RAID controllers  for instance.

[Mark Kaine]

not really...

 

it also depends on cpu for example,  in my experience intel boots much faster than amd (current and last gen)

 

bios time on several amd boards i had: generally 10-11 seconds 

 

on my intel laptop 4-5 seconds 

 

 

(for example) 

 

[Mark Kaine]

1 hour ago, RONOTHAN## said:

That's a broad generalization that doesn't hold much water in my experience. Sure, there's a couple models from them that take a while to boot compared to competing boards, but the opposide is also true with some other boards. 

 

Also, how often are you rebooting your system that the amount of time it takes to POST actually matters?

it doesn't matter on modern systems,  20-25 seconds into windows login... often to fast for me to even login before the energy feature thingy turns off the  screen again lol

[RONOTHAN##]

4 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

in my experience intel boots much faster than amd (current and last gen)

Honestly even this depends on the specific board. I've had B650 boards do full memory training faster than Z690 boards (both DDR5), and vice versa. Even when not doing memory training, the B650M-HDV I've got gets into Windows faster than most of my motherboard collection. 

 

3 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

it doesn't matter on modern systems,  20-25 seconds into windows login... often to fast for me to even login before the energy feature thingy turns off the  screen again lol

Agreed, hence that last sentence. Even when you do have to go through memory training (on some modern boards that can take over a minute), unless you're rebooting your system very frequently, 1-2 minutes in the scheme of being on for a few hours is effectively nothing.