I need help in finding a reasonably priced motherboard which has at least 5 pcie x8 and/or x16 slots that I can pci passthrough independently to vm guests. pcie v3 will be fine for most of what I want to do, but I will not turn down v4. That is really my main requirement. I was going to say NUMA but I think you have to go back in time a lot to find MB/CPU combos that can only handle one numa node per cpu. You know, like my ASRock Z77 Extreme4, which I really like but it does not fit the bill.
As a starting point, I was looking at a Supermicro H11SSL since it has 3 PCIe 3.0 x16 and 3 PCIe 3.0 x8; I wonder if these slots can be used independently; I take it has a PCI switch to do port bifurcation? Some would argue it uses an older CPU; given my Z77, i can't complain.
Suggestions are appreciated.
As a starting point, I was looking at a Supermicro H11SSL since it has 3 PCIe 3.0 x16 and 3 PCIe 3.0 x8; I wonder if these slots can be used independently; I take it has a PCI switch to do port bifurcation? Some would argue it uses an older CPU; given my Z77, i can't complain.
Suggestions are appreciated.