Is your Windows 8 Fast Boot working with your add-in card?

[nathanc]

I've been running Windows 8 for a while and was quite impressed with my 28 second cold boot time until I saw the 2/3 seconds that I should be seeing.

A fiddle with the UEFI BIOS settings highlighted that its my graphics card that doesn't support UEFI GOP booting (or something similar to that).

Now to be fair, my 5870 is getting a bit long in the tooth and whilst I can still play my current games at native res with fairly high settings I know that a 7950 or 670 will be twice as fast...

I might upgrade to this generation if Fast Boot will work... otherwise I've just found another reason to wait for the next gen!

So back to the question, has anybody with a full UEFI board and Windows 8 managed to get fast boot working with one of the current generation of add in graphics cards?

Ideally, I'm looking for fellow Asus GPU/MB owners but I'm interested to hear in the experiences of other brand users!

 

[nathanc]

I couldn't live with myself if I left my PC sleeping all the time. As it is I turn everything off at the wall that isn't essential... although that doesn't include the server and router that's running a website that I can't be bothered to update

To be honest I'm quite happy with the power cycling time - I guess I was sold on the hype. I will try normal hibernation and see if that's any faster, I doubt the electricity cost is any higher than with the PC off but on standby.