Recommendations for itx mobo & cpu for gfx passthrough & CPU/nvme workloads?

Hello all,

First post here. Could I please get some advice to choose an appropriate platform/mobo/cpu for my desired workload?

Planned workload, in order of importance:

  1. I plan to do mostly bursty, multithreaded, IO or CPU intensive jobs without sustained CPU load.
  2. kubernetes workload via ssh or whatever, while kid games.
  3. Qubes when I’m at the conn.
  4. I’d like ~native CPU/nvme performance (x4 gen4 if possible). ECC is near worthless to me.

Desired FF: mini-itx/dtx

Hardware I have:
3950x (I am within return window.)
2070 Super (I can buy different gpu.)

Things I would like to try:
Per-drive passwords from mobo UEFI, so at least eg. Windows can’t bork Linoohx and vice versa if I dual boot
Multiseat Linux
PCIE bifurcation
Adapting PCIE devices to eg. NVMe / Asus mkey slots

Additional Notes:
I am a little frustrated with Intel 4 core (4790k), and probably don’t need HEDT, but would prefer more cores, so maybe 9900k/10900k/3950x territory.
64GB ram is fine.

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