So I was curious as to what hardware/software systems make boot time shorter. I’ll start:
Build:
Asus z-97-a motherboard
Intel i5 4690k @ 3.9ghz
gtx 770 4 gb (This is probably irrelevant, but I wanna see anyways)
8GB DDR3 RAM (1600mhz)
Windows 8.1 64bit
Using an SSD (Don’t know the name :()
Boot Time: 14.92 seconds
Wow, I CANNOT believe forgot to post my boot time!
well, you forgot to mention what I would assume is the most important part… your own boot time… 
as for me, here’s Wesley’s (relevant) details… and he boots up in about 8 seconds (yeah for SSD!)…
OS - Windows 8.1 Enterprise
Processor - Intel® Core™ i7-4770 Processor (4x 3.40GHz/8MB L3 Cache)
Memory - 16 GB [8 GB x2] DDR3-2133 Memory Module - G.SKILL Ripjaws X
Video Card - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 - 4GB - Single Card
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3 – 1x PCIe 3.0 x16, 4x USB 3.0, 6x SATA-III 6Gb/s
Power Supply - 750 Watt - Corsair RM750 - 80 PLUS Gold, Full Modular
Primary Hard Drive - 240 GB Corsair Force GS SSD – Read: 555MB/s ; Write: 525MB/s - Single Drive
Boot time to login 8 seconds then about a minute and a half for all my crap to load after I log in.
OS - Windows 8.1 Pro
Processor - Intel Core i7-4771 (4 cores 8 threads @3.5GHz)
Memory - 16GB 4x4DDR3 Corsair (its old transplanted from my previous motherboard I ran out of cash only 667MHz according to cpuid
Video Card - NVIDIA Geforce GTX 750 ti - 2GB- single card
Motherboard - Maximus VI Hero
Power Supply - 900 watt somethingerotheridon’trememberwhat
Hard Drive - Western Digital 1TB 7200rpm
Last bios time: 11secs. Best time on windows 8 and Mint was 7-8secs
OS - Windows Ult x64
Processor - Intel i5-2310 @2.90x2 [Pretty sure that it was quad, oh well]
Memory - 4GBx2 DDR3-1333 Corsair Vengence
Video Card - ATI Radeon 4550HD [512mb model]
Motherboard - Asus P8 Z77-V LX
Power Supply - 750 Watt Corsair modular PSU. That’s all I remember about it.
Primary Hard Drive - Some 80gb WDC drive 600mp/s [5400rpm?]
I feel like this turned into a ‘Post your specs thread’
Kinda, Oh well either way its fun.