Help picking a motherboard ready for "heavy upgrading"

[stolenbeat]

Hi there. I'm reaaally new with all this thing about building rigs, so that stated I'm sure you guys can help my out with some doubts.

My goal is to build a good rig for video editing and gaming. Right now I don't have the money to spend on all the parts I want... and, here's where I need your wisdom. Even if right now I can't get all the stuff I want for my rig, I want a motherboard capable of handling any future upgrade, from a "regular" CPU, 8gb of RAM DDR3, to everything post i7-4930K, 64gb RAM DDR4, and a pair of GPUs (just to give and example) since I believe that investing in a really, really good motherboard right now, even if nothing's gonna save me from ever upgrading it or eventually changing to a new PC, at least won't let me worry about upgrading it to a high extent in the near future.

Once again, just a noob here trying to figure a few things out.

Thank you all in advance!

PS. This was the motherboard that kept me thinking about all this stuff: P9X79-E WS

[AlwaysFSX]

Wants to do heavy upgrading ---> picks extinct platform

 

Your best bet is to save money, and spend it on x99.

[Samfisher]

X79 is old old old.  Do not get it.

[Krzyimprt]

Hi there. I'm reaaally new with all this thing about building rigs, so that stated I'm sure you guys can help my out with some doubts.

My goal is to build a good rig for video editing and gaming. Right now I don't have the money to spend on all the parts I want... and, here's where I need your wisdom. Even if right now I can't get all the stuff I want for my rig, I want a motherboard capable of handling any future upgrade, from a "regular" CPU, 8gb of RAM DDR3, to everything post i7-4930K, 64gb RAM DDR4, and a pair of GPUs (just to give and example) since I believe that investing in a really, really good motherboard right now, even if nothing's gonna save me from ever upgrading it or eventually changing to a new PC, at least won't let me worry about upgrading it to a high extent in the near future.

Once again, just a noob here trying to figure a few things out.

Thank you all in advance!

PS. This was the motherboard that kept me thinking about all this stuff: P9X79-E WS

P9X79-E WS Is a great board but if you didn't already buy a CPU I'd go with the 5820k and a 2011-v3 board.

[Krytopsy]

Don't listen to the most of what they tell you. Go X99 but spend as much as you can to get the highest CPU on this Platform 5960X > 5930K > 5820K

[stolenbeat]

Thanks for the fast responses. I used that board as a reference, not because it's the one I am using or intending to use, once again, noob here.

Also, why would you recommend those boards?, I want to understand as much as you guys are willing to explain!. Thanks!

[-rascal-]

Thanks for the fast responses. I used that board as a reference, not because it's the one I am using or intending to use, once again, noob here.

Also, why would you recommend those boards?, I want to understand as much as you guys are willing to explain!. Thanks!

X99 is the direct successor replacement for X79.

X79 can only used the i7-4xxx extreme CPUs. X99 uses the new i7-5xxx CPUs (and DDR4 RAM).