Pro Tools runs well with Coffee Lake.
The only m.2 nvme drive you should want to use is a Samsung Evo or Pro M.2
Motherboard Asrock or Asus. Gigabyte is good, but they definitely fall behind on their firmware support.
1. Because their speeds are almost on par with what is advertised.
2. Because Samsung regularly issues firmware updates on their M.2s
3. Because of compatibility
4. Because Samsung has their own nvme drivers.
the Z370 platform isn't a bad platform at all for pro tools.
right now intel is in all sorts of deep... with the whole spectre/ meltdown performance fiasco.
With Ryzen2 a month away and Threadripper performance out of this world.
By the way, in my opinion, Pro Tools runs more reliably with Hyperthreading disabled.
