I thought my CTD problems had stemmed from MSFS update 5, but I am now clear that I was wrong

Yeah MSFS used to be so CPU bottlenecked before SU5 that even with a 400W GPU, only like 30% of that power is utilized which resulted in a 120W usage scenario where a theoretically inadequate 500W PSU may have seemed fine.

Now after SU5, the GPU usage has gone up quite a lot and now everything is getting properly used (or stressed as they should be)