[vfio-users] Hardware recommendation?

[Tobias Geiger]

Hello List!

yesterday my beloved dx58so with its first gen 920 i7 got broke :(
im really sad, except for the astronomicaly high power usage i was 100% 
happy with the system.
Now it suddenly only recognizes 2998MB (?!) of the installed 16GB RAM - 
all of a sudden, dont ask me why.
it also fails to let me into the bios ("hit f2" just doesnt work 
anymore) - in short: its broke. which is ok after about 7-8 years...

so my question:
can you recommend me a motherboard/cpu combination which makes as few 
problems as possible regarding vfio/vga passthrough?
I'd like to re-use the existing AMD 88something GPU which is enough for 
me right now, but will surely update that in a few months/years and the 
next one is likely to be an NVIDIA one, so it would be nice if the new 
cpu/mobo will also work with nvidia cards regarding vfio.

I'd prefer an up-to-date CPU/motherboard like Skylake, but Alex 
mentioned in his blog this might not be a good idea?

Thanks for your advertisment ehm - recommendations! :)

Greetings
Tobias