help Component help, please? New case build advice and pointers

[Archeus-of-Life]

Budget (including currency): I would rather not sell my liver, please

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming (World of Tanks, League of Legends, Maybe some main titles, Etc) and school

Other details : I recently purchased a new case, upgrading to the Phanteks Enthoo Evolv X. Parts I currently have are:

• Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mk 2 LGA 1150
• Intel Core i7-4790K Devil's Canyon quad-core 4.0 GHz 1150
• EVGA GeForce GTX 970
• G. Skill Trident X series 16GB(2 x 8GB) 240-pin DDR3 SDRAM

My conundrum is this. My Motherboard has no RBG headers that I can tell and the case comes with a 3-pin D-RBG cable for the case lights as well as a USB 3.1 cable that I also can not make use of. If im also looking to change other parts, what motherboard would be recommended? I don't mind upgrading to newer motherboards and CPUs, but I just don't know what I need or what direction to head. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

Side note: I also previously had a Corsair Hydro Series H115i Extreme Performance AiO, but the radiator grill received some damage, presumably from my cats, and no longer worked, so I'm in the market for a new CPU cooler as well. 

My old case was a Phanteks Eclipse P400S series Mid-Tower that started to warp.

I use 140mm ML fans, a total of 6 scattered across my case at the moment. 

 

[Hyrogenes]

To have usb 3.1 you are going to need a mobo upgrade to a newer generation which means you will almost definately need a new cpu also. Luckily your workload looks rather cpu intensive so it might be a good time to upgrade it anyways.

[Archeus-of-Life]

Any recommendations? I've seen tons of motherboards, some have this, some have that. I've seen some that have both the 3.1 USB and the RGB header, but they also come with too much other stuff that drives the price higher than caviar and just makes me turn my head from them. Do you have on that you use or you know of?