I have had my ASUS E6896_P9X79_WS board with Intel i7-4930K , 64GB of Crucial Ballistic DDR 3 and a Nvidia 1070 going on 8 years. It has served me well but in the last year I have had to replace the 850w Seasonic PS, the Thermaltake CPU water cooling and now a memory dimm has gone bad which caused all sorts of corrupt files. I am not a gamer. What I need is rock solid dependable performance and if I want to play a game or edit video it is no problem.
So now I am thinking maybe I should consider doing a major upgrade of a Asus Workstation motherboard, modern Intel CPU, and DDR4 ram. I know AMD is all the hot CPU now but I prefer the stability and compatibility inherent with Intel products. I gave myself a $1500 - $2000 budget and went looking to see what I could do. The problem I am having is the multitude of choices. It looks like there are six Asus WS boards to choose from a huge assortment of I7 and I9 CPUs and I will probably stick with Crucial for the RAM. Any guidance from the collective is appreciated. <w>
