So, I tried the following which I thought would give me the results I wanted but just when I believe ESXi should finally load I see the PSOD. So, I am going to try scripting the settings which may work better. Any guidance? 

1. Made sure Bios set to boot from UEFI USB.
2. Using Shift+O to add boot options in the following order seemed to be required: tscSyncSkip=TRUE timerForceTSC=TRUE
3. Now installer for ESXi 8.0.2 working and installed ESXi to an SSD.
4. Once ESXi 8.0.2 installed and running.
5. SSH to console and add.
6. esxcli system settings kernel set --setting=tscSyncSkip --value=TRUE
7. esxcli system settings kernel set --setting=timerForceTSC --value=TRUE
8. Reboot

Just before ESXi is up I receive the PSOD.

Almost there.

MJ