ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Extreme Review

Boot Time

So as I mentioned, benchmarks are for the most part pretty useless, especially when all boards on the same platform, using the same CPU, GPU and memory, perform within a range of each other with the only benchmark that we did that actually shows something being the boot time as this really is board specific, especially with the way they work with DDR5 through the memory training they have to do.

These feature-bloated boards have a lot of additional hardware and controllers to initiate, so it’s no surprise that it’s a slow loader, but 44.4 seconds is a long enough time that I’d be tempted to never turn it off.