MSI X99A Raider Motherboard Good or Bad?

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On Newegg right now this motherboard is on sale for $174.99 with a free MSI Gaming headset valued at $69.99. The board has gotten good and bad reviews and cant decide if i should risk it. im sure if it's defective they can just send another one, but still. I am also on a budget around $180-190. I planning on putting a 5820k in there. this is my build on pcpartpicker- https://pcpartpicker.com/user/BlessedNoob/saved/ I have everything besides a motherboard and cpu at this point, and the 2nd gpu. I did put the PSU and RX 480 into my old Dell Inspiron 546 and it's doing some work. So please, should i get this board? It's on sale pretty cheap and you get a free headset.
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For what you need, a Skylake would be more than enough. Even if you wanted dual LAN, twin M2 NVME, SLI, DDR4 etc. I doubt you'd even see much performance difference either. Skylake i7's don't even blink running the latest games and rendering MP4 etc is much more effective with GPU acceleration than using the CPU anyway.

You'd be better off focusing your budget on other upgrades like more RAM or SSD/NVME's. Yes it's a great top-end board with a ton of features but I bet you won't use half that it provides.
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It's a very good motherboard, will come with a warranty and is at a low price..,. but you could save yourself a few hundred dollars more by using the Skylake platform for gaming. Any particular reason you want a motherboard that advanced? The single core speed isn't that high on a 5820k either but I realise it can be very heavily overclocked if you are up to it.
 
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I plan on streaming eventually and im recording videos for youtube right now and my rendering time is horrendous. I use and elgato and i use the editing and mp4 pro rendering that it comes with. I have sony vegas but it doesnt run very well. I also want to record PC games as well as my already Xbox One games
 
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For what you need, a Skylake would be more than enough. Even if you wanted dual LAN, twin M2 NVME, SLI, DDR4 etc. I doubt you'd even see much performance difference either. Skylake i7's don't even blink running the latest games and rendering MP4 etc is much more effective with GPU acceleration than using the CPU anyway.

You'd be better off focusing your budget on other upgrades like more RAM or SSD/NVME's. Yes it's a great top-end board with a ton of features but I bet you won't use half that it provides.
 
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so which z170 board should i get then? and is a 6600k enough? Im looking for an ATX board, usb 3.0, angled SATA ports, etc. and crossfire
 
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Yeah a 6600k would be enough, although with intensive gaming and streaming etc it may get a bit overloaded in the years ahead. It'll be good for a few years yet though, and you can always OC it.

Something like the Asus z170a/z170e or even the z170 pro gaming board would be good choices, but theres lots.. the MSI m5, Gigabyte K3 etc. All more than capable of what you need it for. Pretty much any non-h110 board (SLI/Crossfire isn't supported with that chipset) on the Skylake platform would be ok but obviously the z170 is the most OC friendly.

http://pcpartpicker.com/products/motherboard/#X=0,15608&l=1000&sort=a8&u=1&c=112,111,110
 
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So ive decided on the Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 3 ATX Motherboard it has enough SATA ports, angled too. 3 fan connectors, my case already has 2. Reinforced PCIe slots. Good for overclocking. Also do i need an Optical Drive? i have one but its really old. I do have a bootable USB with Windows 10
 
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Great board :) Probably a bit over-priced but it's worth it for the features and components. V overclockable and durable. You won't need an optical drive no. As long as you have a USB flash drive that's all you will need, although you will have to download/copy drivers onto it to install after your OS but thats easy.

Think you are making a much wiser choice, and you could even use your i5 on the new z270 Kaby Lake boards in the future.
 
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I looked on amazon for the motherboard found it for $89 and i emailed them and they said it comes with everything, I/O shield, sata cables, etc. This is the first time im hearing about the Kaby Lake z270 boards
 
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