[blibble]

go for it! I was very upset with the direction MS took with Windows 10 and have now been running Windows in a VM with graphics passthrough since 2015, with no problems

the only real problem I had with setup was sound: emulated sound had buffering issues, as did USB

I would suggest buying a cheap soundcard, giving it to the VM and running a cable between its output and line-in on your host (which hopefully has hardware support, so the sound doesn't have to be touched by the CPU by the host system)

[Beltiras]

I'm salivating at the idea of being able to snapshot Windows before doing something quirky and then just being able to revert to a known good setup.

[Beltiras]

And btw. I wouldn't go for cheap for this build. I'm aiming for power and experience. Buying a 4K monitor and maybe VR headgear too.

[blibble]

yeah

be careful though, the hardware selection relies on trial and error quite a bit, devices have to support things like MSI interrupts, the board has to have proper ACS support, bios support has to be there, and so on

even picking things like graphics cards is a problem, some AMD cards support hot-plugging properly, others of the same generation don't

(and just because it's on the datasheet doesn't mean it works in practice :/)

[Beltiras]

I will be researching each component carefully and picking only items that have a proven trackrecord for this setup.