When the AMD chipset drivers are installed, I believe it will ad an “Ultimate Performance” power plan as an option, which might be the best pick
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You should have something similar to the below options, for testing purposes anything other than Power saver should be good. Power saver has a bad tendency to put Ryzen’s in their low power state and leave them there, meaning they don’t even run at their standard clock speeds, let alone reaching their advertised boost speeds.
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It’s hard to tell with the Spyglass test, is it the CPU holding back the GPU, and with Heaven, it could be both I don’t know how to tell.
I know you’re sick of trying stuff but what I would do.
1, As I and others have said, I would do a fresh install of the Chipset Drivers, uninstall the drivers then download the chipset file from the ASUS Motherboard website page and install them manually,
DO NOT USE Asus programs, Armoury Crate or Sonic Studio or whatever it is to install them.
Then you could try Cinebench 2024 as it does a performance test on the GPU & CPU, so it may show up the problem if we are lucky, but it is possible the results could be skewed if the PC’s Memory affects the scores in some way!
Go here and install Cinebench 2024
Click on file / run all tests
this will run a GPU, CPU Multi-core test, and CPU Single core test
Each test will run for 10 mins and your result will be listed in blue, your card the 4090 should have a score of around 34772 points.
The CPU should score around = Single core 118 & Multicore 1629pts
P.S. Your System, shown on Cinebench will list your cores and threads 12/24
My CPU & GPU results look to be in the correct points scoring range.
This Page has a good list of results for most GPU & CPU
I have (and use) that power plan on my AMD system.
Update: I’ve returned the PC back to the local shop and they will do various tests using different components.
I’ve explained to them to start up the sim and how to get to the “fly” stage.
See what they come back with.
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Thanks for input. I’ll await what the pc guys come back with. On return, if necessory will perform that test. 
To memory i think my option was “best permance” which i set it too.
So progress… Hope you can get it running asap.
Send that report to the people who did the first motherboard tests and then ask for a refund. 
It still doesn’t rule out the CPU, until you can test with a different one it isn’t conclusive, especially since the mobo has been through tests already.
I’ll be making contact.
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True. The orginal mobo test was done with a 7950x CPU and only 32gb ram (2x16s).
I dont know how the folks at scan do their tests, but like the guys at my local pc shop say, for a processor to be bad it would be a very different story not an ‘as and when’ it decides to work or not. That said, it’s very rare for a cpu to be bad, but it can happen.
If your mobo has a BIOS flashback option, I would see about trying to install an earlier BIOS to see what happens. At this point, what else do you have to lose? Sometimes that can work if it’s a buggy BIOS.
It’s a component issue. The bios has already gone from original to latest. I agree with the PC guys. It’s mobo or CPU, but my guessing mobo. I’ve made contact with the Mobo supplier, so will await there response.
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Glad to hear you’re making progress on this.
In the mean time while i get this pc sorted. How’s people finding the new sim update?
My sim has become less stable. I’ve had several CTDs entering a flight, which I didn’t have before. Also seen weirdness in the menus and flight planner. I was unable to return to the main menu from a flight -
clicking the option just did nothing. Had to F4 it and start again. Once, the menu sounds suddenly became VERY VERY LOUD for no reason. All random and impossible to reliably reproduce, of course.
I update my graphics drivers to see if it had any impact, have not had any CTDs since but I only flew once after doing that, so it might be a red herring.
These are all new symptoms for me since SU13. The last time I had CTDs it was down to RAM problems which I fixed. I very much doubt it’s co-incidence that I was stable on SU12 and less so on SU13.
Sigh. I heard a suggestion that Microsoft is trying to push SU14 out before the end of the year. Presumably that will address some of the regressions in SU13.
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The update process went well for me. Download was a bit slow but it got there in the end without any issues.
Overall, the upgrade has been an improvement for me. The “white dot / losing control of cursor” has been solved and everything seems smoother. I notice the added smoothness in particular when changing camera angles or when panning around. Definitely an improvement.
I have experienced a couple of CTDs also - But in hindsight they were in unusual conditions that were
really pushing my not-so-powerful PC (see specs below) - The CTDs occurred in a group flight with a large number of players flying close together in lots of different planes. There was probably just too much going on. I have since done a group flight with 5-6 players with no problems at all.
So overall, it has been a positive experience for me.
My specs: i7 7700, GeForce GTX 1060 6Gb VRAM, 32Gb of RAM
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is alot more powerful than mine right now. I know that for sure😂
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