X399 mobo + KVM + passth: MSI or Asrock or Asus?

[vage]

Hi there
I m planning a Threadripper 1950x 32 GB ram.
I plan also to use KVM to virtualize Windows, i know Wendell is working with MSI so the Carbon would be a good candidate but since i will watercool it, it seems that Asus Zenith at least has already a monoblock solution from EK. (Asrock Fatal1ty X399 Professional has 10gbit and supports ram över 3200mhz though it doesen t make a greate difference in performance)

What is the present state for these 3 mobo for IOMMU / KVM support?
Some suggestions about which to buy?
Someone who can share his experience with these 3??

[mutation666]

I personally like the Asrock Pro onboard 10gbe FTW, and its not stupid pricing like the zenith and keeps your slots open

I wouldnt worry about a mono block unless your doing some crazy OC unless you have the worst air flow ever.

https://level1techs.com/article/patch-npt-ryzen-better-performance (not sure if you care about pass through performance or not )

Not sure about iommu groups last video i saw was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDbn98QTAbg

Threadripper State of IOMMU - Not to flog a dead horse

Hi all / @wendell, I can’t recall any recent IOMMU related content from @wendell so couple things I’d like to see noting all of this is X399 centric - Live QA session with @wendell on the topic, at least sign me up! I have a fair few questions What sort of progress have you made on the MSI front What sort of progress is there (at all) on the Gigabyte Aorus 7 board? Is AMD pushing for IOMMU development/AGESA fixes as part of the general UEFI ‘blue-print’ or do we need the manufacturers themselves to also tweak things? Anything else that would be fun to share on the topic? Here’s something I’d like to see from @wendell if possible Start with a basic Fedora 26 install. Have a second GPU in the box. Would be nice if there was a Nvidia card in there as well, but let’s assume one’s a Radeon Separate SSDs, one for Fedora (host) and one that already has Windows 10 installed. Separate NIC card in some PCIe slot. Would be amazing if @wendell could walk through getting IOMMU running on such a setup. If this interests you as well, please vote in the thread with your thoughts & comments.

[vage]

Thx
Yes i do care about passthrough performance, i don t want to run bare metal Windows.
I read some not good posts on Asrock Fatal1ty somewhere, that s why i wanted to hear from u guys.
Yes the Zenith is overkill in many aspects the only reason i considered it was for the already Selling waterblock from EK.
Yeah getting to 4.2 ghz is only 5% more performance or even less, probably i go better with a phanteks cpu waterbolck and instead get longevity-stability