Quite disappointed I know this is a bit of a reach, but might I make a few requests for a possible Gene? (I'm going to make them anyway I'm mostly a workstation type user, so: 3-4 16x pcie slots in various configurations. 2 m2 sockets a server ...
@Skunk:M.2 is pcie 3.0, not 2.0 compatible, hence mPCIE (which isn't mSATA, either) AFA pcie lane allocation, quite a lot of motherboards work similar to what I proposed anyway; take a look at how the x99-deluxe does it. WRT networking, 1GbE has to ...
10GbE maxes out around 1GBps, so a good M.2 SSD or a pair of sata 6g SSDs in raid 0 will do this without a problem. 1GbE maxes out around 100MBps, and even a decent platter spinner will do this. I just went FDR infiniband at home (dual port cards, so...
You won't need the networking coming from processor PCI-E lanes; that's usually handled by the chipset, which is connected to the processor on a DMI 2.0 4x link at 20Gb/s. Plenty to handle GigE and WiFi. 2 M2 slots would be nice, but they'd have to ...
