Lost in the quagmire.

Yeah, I should have written down the particulars. When I originally posted it was a light night rant LOL. As far as budget is concerned, around 2000 American give or take. This is just for the board, processor, ram, psu, coolers, storage and video card. I've learned that SSD storage does cost.

(Not really relevant, but I do so love the Phanteks Ethoo Luxe and Evolve cases. and just those crush any kind of budget.)

My setup will mainly be a gaming computer, with perhaps some editing of photos or video? I guess you could say a well rounded rig with a heavy slant toward being able to play the latest and greatest games.

I think I would like to use an Intel Core i7-6700K for the processor. On that note there seems to be a rather large camp that says no need for the i7. Games do not need hyper threading. But when I go to Eve Onlines newest system configuration page they recommend an i7 processor.

I suppose its the amount of information that your rig has to process at anyone time. It is a huge game and what I am running now has a tendency to jerk or lock up for a second or two. The black screen of death when changing from one area of the game to another.

The Witcher 3 recommends a Core i7-3770 as well, and though I don't think that's a Skylake processor its still an i7. I suppose both could run well with the Skylake

I don't know if I will ever really need the over clocking capability of the K series, but the newer boards I am looking at all carry Z170 series chip sets, and it might be nice to experiment with later.

I think I would like to stay between 200 and 300 dollars American give or take for the board.

Tom's Hardware gives the nod to the Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming G1....WOW that's and expensive board for me. But I could just wait and save a bit longer if it was truly justified.

Asus has the Z170 Delux for a bit less, but I have read where they had issues with their secondary DIMMs. I also like the looks of the Asus ROG Maximus 8 formula and it comes closer to the ceiling. I love the look of the MSI X Power Titanium, and the Krait boards. But as noted above there are those that thumbs down MSI's QC.

At this level of spending I really want to find a board with as few gremlins out the gate as possible. I would like it to be fairly noobie friendly, but at this level of building I do not really expect it. So much packed into one board is confusing for me.

Reading the online manuals tells me I have a looong way to go in understanding the boards.

I want to get my hands on the new G force 1080 card. Maybe the 1070, but with the amount of money that it would take so far, then I may as well spend for the pricier item.

I think by now its easy to get the picture of what I am hoping for. It will take a bit of time to put something this pricey together. By that time the manufacturers would probably have all rolled out something even better. I think I see now that technology really does seem to run that quickly and that "future proofing" your rig really is not a reality. I am continually amazed at what I am uncovering. Technology is a complicated beast.

Sorry I posted my answer and did not follow the usual protocol. I hope this helps. Kinda tired from the late night perusing of online forums.

Thank you for taking the time to put this list together. I will definitely put it to good use. Maybe I can finish my upgraded build later on this year. Once again thank you.