On 11/5/2017 10:45 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > What would you consider be a tested and proven working, newish chipset? its really the CPU now that matters, rather than the 'chipset', as most all the base IO devices are in the CPU (ethernet, sata, video). I think Kaby Lake support is still a sketchy, thats Core gen 7. (i-7xxx). I'm not sure what the state of Skylake is (gen 6) Broadwell should be very solid at this point (5th gen), that was new in early 2015. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz