I had already put the ram onto the motherboard. I put in all four dimms.
I then applied thermal paste and put the cooler on and screwed her down. Once the power supply arrived I wanted to do a test run out of case.
But just before first power up I decided to take out the red dimms and use only the t-force deltas, to make any trouble shooting easier at first.
The machine was immediately able to boot up and i got into the bios. After some time of studying the in's and outs of the new UEFI Bios, I had learned enough that I felt confident using it.
I wanted to get the bios updated, but in doing so i made a couple of mistakes, nothing critical, just things that made it take longer than it should have. First I didn't realize I had downloaded the wrong bios file. I could not figure out why it would not find the file. then I realized that the z370 has different models.....the pro4 i had downloaded was wrong. I had thought the /OEM part of the name was just that it was oem....but nope - part of the model name lol.
Once i had the proper bios, my next mistake was chosing the wrong boot.....i selected the usb drive when I should have been selecting UEFI Usb.
upon figuring that out the Bios began updating! wooohooo!
Look at this bad ass over here. Good work!
Read up on configuring XMP (Extreme Memory Profile) in the BIOS as well as running a full memory test with bootable memtest86 USB.
Remember, RAM is one of the most crucial parts of the computer, if things get corrupt in memory they get corrupt every where else.
Get the free edition, it is enough.