2011-3 is now a bit long in the tooth. Unless you need a crapton of PCIe lanes or more than 6 cores, the Z370/LGA1151 (v2) with Coffee Lake is the platform to get right now IMO.
-----Original Message----- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2017 9:50 AM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] LGA 2011-V3 ? all this poking around lately to find a small footprint system to run my CNC mill/engraver has me looking at new MB's and thinking of upgrading my main system. confused I am. been awhile since I poked. MB's I am drawn to seem to all have the LGA 2011-V3 socket and as far as I see all the CPU's run at 140watts, seems HOT to me. also the more cores the lower the MHz (?) kind of need external eSATA ports to run my stardock ( for external backup) and these new SSD drives on the M.2 socket have me impressed IF the specs are accurate at 36mbs data transfer. the game is a foot. thanks and Merry Christmas to all fp NEED has nothing to do with WANT :{) Date: Saturday, December 23rd, 2017 ***Caution Tagline Below*** **Tallyho** ******************************************* Benign: What you are after you be eight. *******************************************