Done: Chipset drivers downloaded/installed. Completed a flight in 24, all systems go.
Please what’s next on the hit parade? Thanks!
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The next step would be to update BIOS.
Once the BIOS is updated, it’s also worth checking BIOS settings.
It might be a good idea to take photos of the current BIOS settings, just as a precaution. However, I suspect your settings are likely default, with the only change being the activation of EXPO.
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@Nikita I just realized I forgot to mention something important - the latest BIOS version for your motherboard is a beta version. So, there’s no need to update the BIOS at this time.
You can go ahead and proceed with adjusting BIOS settings instead.
Got it. Please what to adjust next?
Congrats for your new PC 
Other than enabling the XMP/EXPO RAM profile and installing all the drivers, in my opinion the most important thing is to tweak your CPU to unleash its full potential.
You can do very safe & easy undervolting by setting the “Curve Optimizer” feature to “All Cores” with a negative(!) offset of 20 or 25. You can also add 200 Mhz to the base clock speed. These two changes will boost your average CPU clock speeds quite a lot.
I have an ASUS mainboard where things are to be set up differently, so for further details on how to set it up in your BIOS @TenPatrol should be able to help since you both have the same board.
There are many more tweaks, like RAM tweaking that goes way beyond simply enabling XMP, undervolting individual CPU cores for further optimization and so on…but this is hard to do if you don’t know what you are doing.
If you tweak your system to the max you can gain up to 10-12% more performance for free. A more mild tweaking that can be explained and shown to you here is probably boosting your performance around 3-5 % while keeping your system relatively cool.
Also I very much agree with your remarks regarding Series X vs 5070 TI/9800X3D. It is not a monumental difference, far from it and I hope you are playing on a 1440p monitor with the 5070 TI because that’s what this card was made for. The REAL gap that will actually blow your mind begins with a RTX 4090 setup. But that is very costy of course.
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Thanks for the kind words. Flying the PMDG 738 now in 2020, so back to BIOS tweaking a little later. Outputting 4k (3840x2160) to the same 64” Samsung Q80 that the Series X drove, truly awesome either way! The 5070 Ti is super nice for all the bad press Nvidia is getting these days, and I got a good one too with all the specified render units intact!
There were (are) so few, if any, graphics cards out there to buy that when one, literally one, was in the store, I just bought it. One day down the road maybe upgrade, but with 16GB VRAM it is a very happy medium delivering 4k, no sweat. Good flying and thanks for the input too!
I can help you with BIOS settings in a private message.
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