Out of the loop on current CPUs, motherboards and RAM

[zed]

That must be it, Mines from a fresh install from a couple of weeks ago, so is pretty clean

 

[tabs]

I missed the most obvious reason. You're booting off the Samsung while I'm booting off the old Kingston. Not being sure of the difference I ran Crystal Disk Mark on them both and got these results:


Turns out the new drive is roughly twice the speed of the old one.

 

[homerdog]

Doesn't the X99 platform usually take a bit longer to boot than the small socket stuff? Or maybe it just depends on how many doohickeys are on your particular mobo.

 

[tabs]

No idea.

I've since shaved another few seconds from the boot time by disabling the logo, shortening the wait for input timer and disabling a couple of unused things from being initialised.

I really love the control you get with this motherboard. Best BIOS I've used yet, with reasonable descriptions for most of the many options.