I'm planning a virtualised 3900X build under Catalina in order to test the water before lashing out on a Threadripper 3 system, so looking for advice on:
As you've probably gathered, I'm prepared to trade a little performance for boot flexibility, feature and reliability. Doable?
At the moment, I can't seem to find anything that supports TB3 (onboard or headers for a card) AND 10Gb LAN, without spending on e.g. an Asrock X570 Creator. As this is essentially a test build to gain experience, I'm trying to keep costs at least a little under control - I'll go mad next time.
TIA…
- appropriate X570 motherboards that support Thunderbolt 3 & at least 2 M.2 NVMe slots
- I'm planning an Ubuntu host, so KVM/QEMU or Proxmox (or indeed, anything else)?
- I have a Sapphire Radeon VII - I've seen comments that this particular board may not suffer from the AMD reset problem. Can anyone confirm?
- I will be multibooting into MacOS (most of the time), Ubuntu (less so) and Windows 10 (rarely).
- I will need to run Adobe CS (Lightroom Classic and PS mostly) - it appears that virtualisation has far fewer problems with CS than a bare metal Hackintosh
- I do need reliable Bluetooth
- 10Gb/s Ethernet would also be nice.
- Sleep would be nice too.
As you've probably gathered, I'm prepared to trade a little performance for boot flexibility, feature and reliability. Doable?
At the moment, I can't seem to find anything that supports TB3 (onboard or headers for a card) AND 10Gb LAN, without spending on e.g. an Asrock X570 Creator. As this is essentially a test build to gain experience, I'm trying to keep costs at least a little under control - I'll go mad next time.
TIA…
3900X/X570 Taichi. Working well under quad-boot (Ubuntu, Win10, Catalina & Big Sur), with the only issue being occasional BIOS resets when starting from cold, and a reluctance to work with the memory clock set to that of the RAM sticks (boots default at 2666 and seems to lose reliability if I up that to the 3600 of the Patriot Viper Steel RAM.
