A variant of plan B is now in effect. As sad as I am to see it go (it's being WorldBenched as I write), the D5400XS is history as regards this build. There were a number of reasons, many of which I've discussed, some of which I haven't, but the bottom line is that I simply don't have any more time to deal with the surprising number of issues I ran into with it. But it's seriously fast and I will report the WorldBench numbers as soon as I have them.
Big News Tomorrow on an updated component list that's a response to breaking events.
By the way, if you notice new post dates on many of the blog entries, it's because I had to go back and insert smaller image files. Apparently this blog was sucking up a lot of bandwidth.
Cheers folks, Jon