MOBO planning

[Nesagsar]

I'm looking at making a combined gaming and Creative Cloud machine and I'm looking for a board that has plenty of USB ports, will work with my GTX 960, and has NVME support for an Intel 750 in PCIe. I was looking at the ASUS X99 WS but it seems to be out of stock everywhere online and apparently Microcenter straight up doesn't carry workstation components. My reasoning for the ASUS board is that the P9X79 WS seems to be loved by everybody and the X99 is the next step in the series for 2011 v3 Xeons. On the other hand I have never built a workstation before so I don't really know if there is something better. My planned case can easily accept ETX boards. 

[skimmilk5]

Several things:

a) how much gaming are you planning on doing?

b) which CC applications are you planning on using?

c) IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE EDITING VIDEO, will it be things like game streams or will they be full fledged indie films and even feature films?

[Nesagsar]

22 minutes ago, kimsejin5 said:

Several things:

a) how much gaming are you planning on doing?

b) which CC applications are you planning on using?

c) IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE EDITING VIDEO, will it be things like game streams or will they be full fledged indie films and even feature films?

a. Daily gaming while capturing with shadowplay. 

b. Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Premiere, InDesign

c. 1080p clips up to 15 min with effects. 

[skimmilk5]

On April 14, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Nesagsar said:

a. Daily gaming while capturing with shadowplay. 

b. Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Premiere, InDesign

c. 1080p clips up to 15 min with effects. 

You don't need a workstation for that kind of build. Go Z170 or Z97 and get an LGA1150 or LGA1151 (for Skylake) processor.

[Streetguru]

On 4/14/2016 at 4:27 PM, Nesagsar said:

 

You'd be fine with an i7 6700(non K) for that, and how many USB devices did you need? as with USB 3.0/1 a hub is going to be fine for most things

 

and you should totally use OBS so that your capture is higher quality and that you have way more control over it. Shadowplay is really best for low end systems that don't have a strong CPU.

 

What's your budget/country and display set up?