So here's what's been ordered:
ASUS H770-PLUS D4 w/DDR4-3200 Motherboard
Intel i5-12600K CPU plus Noctua NH-D15S CPU Cooler.
64GB RAM
ASUS Dual NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti OC Edition Graphics Card (PCIe 4.0, 8GB GDDR6X Memory)
Alreay have brand new 2 TB disk drive so won't be going SSD yet.
I'll report if there are any issues.
So... The only change is this:
I had installed Windows 11 from a USB drive onto the 2TB hard drive running on my older processor that runs WIN-11. What a pig. I'm told that Windows 11 expects SSD for the system drive and does lots of stuff that just kills response with a standard drive. Apparently even Windows 10 is like that but then this HP ZBOOK I'm using has a 500GB SSD so I've never noticed an issue.
Anyway with the crappy response of Windows 11 on a hard drive I decided that I'd splurge on a WD_BLACK 2TB GEN4 (7300 MB/s) SSD. I left the high end graphics board out initially since the CPU and motherboard has graphics. One less thing to worry about if it doesn't work.
And nada.... fast blinking power LED and that was it. I had followed the instructions and put one of the 32GB RAM modules into DIMM_A2 and the other into the DIMM_B2 socket. Well after much fooling around I discovered that neither of the two DIMMs work in the DIMM_Bx sockets. They do work in the two DIMM_Ax sockets and I have 64GB of ram now. ASUS support hasn't got a clue and says the memory isn't on the tested list. Of course they don't have any memory that size on the list and what they have is all up in the 4000 speed even though again the user manual says 3200 is fine. So their list is dumb.
System also didn't show a boot drive even though I had both the m.2 SSD and a BluRay disk R/W drive. A bit more internet search suggested the system won't chose the BluRay if there isn't a disk in it. So booted with the Windows 11 install disk and now it was visible as a boot drive. Away we go.
I won't go into the Big Brother aspects of Microsoft or how much of an intrusion that system (and WIN-10) before is on our lives. It's take a while to get rid of the advertising information and tracking stuff. Installed the fancy graphics card. No problem. Booted and it just worked! Still can't access my file server. It can't even find it.
Then I installed Alibre 25 since there is no way I want Alibre 26 drawings anywhere while my primary system is still WIN-7.
For now I've chosen demo evaluation mode for Alibre25 since I don't want to release licenses a bunch of times. I took one of the 1TB back up drives with Alibre drawings etc and made it a second drive on this system. Gosh a system with 3TB of storage. Who'd of thought? Started up Alibre25. Continued past the evaluation screen and bingo! It's up and about 3 seconds faster than the WIN-7 system and about 1 second faster than the newer HP ZBook with the SSD.
Same with loading an AD_PRT file. A second or so faster than the WIN-7 system. Probably mostly hard drive issues since I have a fancy graphics board in that one too although not with 8GB of RAM.
I haven't tried any big assemblies yet since I can't access the file server but other than load times it seems about the same. Rotating the part etc. All about the same. I'm using an HDMI 1080P screen.
I then installed AlibreCAM 20. Appears to work. Again superficial use at this point in time.
Therefore the only real issue has been the RAM DIMMs and the inability of the motherboard to recognize working memory. I imagine a BIOS upgrade at some point may fix that. Now to install Altium schematic and pcb design software. Embarcadero Delphi and C++. All the other various tools and programs I use for day to day work.
And to figure out what sort of Office suite to use since I will
not subscribe to Office365. Just got the Mastercard bill for Amazon Prime and Netflix today. Don't really need yet another subscription bleeding money.
I will report back once the system has been brought up to the point where it could become the main development system. That will take a month or so. Got to let infant mortality first rear it's head if it's going to happen. But at this point, other that a software supplier (Microsoft) dictating how we should think and behave, I think Windows 11 is totally usable for Alibre.