It is done! Spent basically the whole day building my new computer. Then at around 8pm I crossed my fingers hit turned it on.
Would you believe it: booted up fine first time around. Initially Outlook had some issues connecting to the server but that cleared itself up in a short while. As always, sound was an issue. I have an old Asus Xonar card so I had to jump through some hoops to get everything speaking with everything else.
Otherwise:
- Before I started building anything, I used Flashback to bring the board (ASRock X670E PG Lightning) to the current BIOS version that works with the 9800X3D
- Once booted up, I immediately installed the appropriate chipset drivers
- Installed the latest nVidia drivers: went painlessly.
- Restarted and went into the BIOS and selected the 6000 profile 30 CAS latency of the 2x32GB G.Skill Flare X memory. Accepted it fine, rebooted and it booted fine and seems stable.
- Boot times are fine. Even the initial memory training boot wasn’t that slow.
- Did a quick, short test with MSFS2024. the first load seemed “off” as it was stuck on loading language for some time. After I got into the menu I immediately quit, rebooted and loaded the sim again. this time it loaded in less than 2 minutes: quite a bit better than before. Quickly just spawned in at KSEA and everything seems OK
So far so good: will be testing it out more tomorrow: now I am going to bed!