New System Build - Right or Wrong?

Thanks, I'll do that.  When I spoke with Newegg last night about the part numbers not matching, everybody was shaking their heads.  They had me send in pictures of the box label, the UPC, and the numbers on the motherboard.  I am still waiting for them to call me back and fill me in on what the heck happened with this.

But as you said, I will talk to Newegg and see if I can get extensions on my 30 days due to this.

nope shove the 960 in the uppermost m2 slot (its connections to the board electricly are nvme 32gb)

the u2 is no use really its for mainly the intel cards and there much slower than the samsung nvme

you sata drives connect the same as usual (use sata 1 and 2 ,or it may be labelled 0 and 1)

lowest numbers anyway as these talk directly to the cpu

i would still advise either flarex OR tridentz  the results with the ripjaws seem inconsistant for stability and overclocking (allthough in theory the flare/ripjaws/trident should basically be the same parts and build with different firmware flashed to them for timings)

Got the replacement motherboard back.  Brand new as far as I can tell and it has the part number on the box as 90-MXB500-A0UAYZ and again the part number on the motherboard as - you guessed it - 80-MXB500-A1A05  YN which is identical to the previous board except the serial number has changed to 7CM0XB101202 instead of 7BM0XB271719 so I do not know what is going on with this.  Well at least I got a newer board 7C vs 7B.

Anyways, I decided to rethink my system and have done some upgrades and changes.

Case:  Phanteks Enthoo Pro TG SE PH-ES614PTG_SWT with the tempered glass side.

Graphic Card:  MSI GeForce GTX 1800Ti 11G Gaming X G5X

Memory - Still a toss up between:

     G. Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-3466 (F4-3466C16D-16GVK) 2X2X8GB for 32 GB   or
     G. Skill FlareX DDR4-3200 (F4-3200C14D-16GFX) 2x2x8GB for 32 GB

But I still can not find out if I can use all 4 DDR slots.  All info at ASRock about the memory config for both of these modules is use slots A2 and B2.  There is nothing indicating that I can use all 4 slots at the same time but there is nothing indicating that I can not use all 4 slots at the same time.

SDD:  CRUCIAL MX500 500GB SATA III 6Gb/s 3D NAND (CT500MX500SSD1) instead of the WD Blue WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 500GB SATA 3 6Gb/s 3D NAND.  It dropped the Max Sequential Writes from 530Mbps to 510Mbps but increased the 4kb Random Writes to 90k IOPS instead of 84k IOPS.  For the same price, I decided to trade that for the extra 3 years of warrantied service.

Everything else pretty much remains the same except that I did decide to go to Windows 10 Pro 64 bit.  I have had my fair share of problems with Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.  As an example, I lost my AHCI capabilities through an update from Microsoft and no matter what I do, I can not get it back, even after I did a Windows Repair.  Loosing the ACHI meant that I am working at the Native IDE speed instead of the SATA3 speed that I should be working at.  It is weird, because I can reload my OS from  a backup I did when I first loaded Windows and my ACHI will work.  But as soon as I revert to what is out there today for Windows 7, I get the dreaded BSOD every time I try to run in AHCI mode.  So this is gong to take a new install of Windows 7 Pro 64 bit so I am just going to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro.

The AHCI problem is one of the reasons I decided to upgrade my hardware (it is also 10 years old - still using a Phenom II processor) and like was mentioned, everybody is  eventually going to have to go to Windows 10 or dump the OS for something else.

Still no replies to my other thread about the memory questions.  Guess it is an email off to tech support.