home build slow to boot...looking for help pls

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Hi.

hoping someone can help me or offer some advice. Recently built my first pc after years of buying pre built systems.

not looking to overclock at the monent and not needed for gaming rig.

anyway went ahead after a fair bit of research with the following

i7 4770k 3.5
asus z87-pro
16gb corsair xmp 1600 ddr3 ram
1tb seagate sata 3 etc
hyper evo 212
corsair 750 psu
win7

am I being unresonable?, seems to take just over 2 mins to boot to the desktop and get a response from IE.
My reason for asking is my work pc which is an i7 3.4 no ssd boots a lot quicker with same av. Just seems like something is holding it back.

Have checked bios level on mb and updated. xmp profile set in bios.ran some diagnostics on memory and hard drive all seem ok. Cpu standard temp is about 22 dc.

Would an ssd resolve /make any difference and if so any recommendations please. Alternatively what else can I do to try and improve boot time. Minimal software loaded.

many thanks for any advice
 
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An SSD would offer the greatest improvement of all, since the hard drive is by far the slowest part of your system.

Go into BIOS and make sure you have it set to be the most efficient. Turn off any ports that you don't use, such as any IDE ports (if your motherboard even has any). Some motherboards have four built-in SATA ports, then another two or four from another controller. If you don't need the 2nd set of SATA ports, turn off that SATA controller in BIOS, it will speed up getting through BIOS.

Turn off the serial and parallel ports unless you're using them. If there is any "fast boot" setting in BIOS, enable it.

Once your PC is booted, run MSCONFIG.MSC (I think that's it, I'm running Windows 8 and it has been superseded in...
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An SSD would offer the greatest improvement of all, since the hard drive is by far the slowest part of your system.

Go into BIOS and make sure you have it set to be the most efficient. Turn off any ports that you don't use, such as any IDE ports (if your motherboard even has any). Some motherboards have four built-in SATA ports, then another two or four from another controller. If you don't need the 2nd set of SATA ports, turn off that SATA controller in BIOS, it will speed up getting through BIOS.

Turn off the serial and parallel ports unless you're using them. If there is any "fast boot" setting in BIOS, enable it.

Once your PC is booted, run MSCONFIG.MSC (I think that's it, I'm running Windows 8 and it has been superseded in Win8 by the Task Manager), and go to the Startup tab and take a look at what programs are starting when you boot. Disable all those you don't use a lot. A lot of software starts itself up automatically just to be convenient, but if you only use it occasionally, you can start it yourself from the Start menu.

Also, you can bring up SERVICES.MSC from the Start Menu (or go into Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Services) and check for services that you don't need. For instance, after installing Acronis True Image backup software, it starts three or four different services automatically, every time I boot, until I go into Services and change them from "automatic" to "manual". I rarely backup my workstation, and when I do I don't mind starting Acronis myself and don't care if it takes an extra five seconds to do so.

That about covers the standard stuff you can do to streamline your boot process.
 
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