Help picking out a motherboard for my new build.

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I am trying to pick out a Motherboard. I know I want a it to be Intel 1150 compatible also be able to have 64gb ram. Also I am not sure what else too look for, but I want my mother board to be the nicest part of my computer right now. But I can't seem to find a lot of great things that have 64 GB RAM and other capabilities, I want to be able to upgrade a lot of things later on so I want to be to not worry about changing my mother board out. So I need to start with a good one. Any ideas?

I plan to ad almost everything I can in eventually.

if you can afford it, go with the Intel Manufactured boards. Otherwise go with Asus or Abit boards, as long as the use the intel north and southbridges. Stay away from VIA and SiS chipsets, as I have had nothing but trouble with them in the past. Also, make sure the motherboard uses EFI instead of ROM-BIOS, should you want to experiment with Mac OS X or Linux or Open Solaris.

Yes but like what models? where can i find out? cause like they say they have all of these things.... Lots of nouns I do not understand.

Shoot. With 64GB of RAM you can probably do without a HD and just use the memory for the OS!

Here are a few MB's that support 64 - 192GB of RAM. They're both at Newegg.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813182182

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813182245

Im going to get a mother board starting with 8GB then expand. But I want to be able to expand all the way to 64GB

You'll be paying a LOT more for 16 GB DIMMs and/or server grade hardware. Once the time comes that you'll actually need 64 GB, your platform will be really out of date.

It'd be more cost effective to get a normal 1150 board and 2x 8GB kit, and then upgrade again down the road (would still likely be less expensive to upgrade twice than what you originally had in mind).

Also, the next platforms (ie Skylake) are cited to be using another memory standard.

Ah well I thought that the more RAM i have the better my gaming would be along with video editing and doing special effects. I would also love to be able to run 2 games at once. And run skyrim with mods of high detail while recording with fraps.

Try the Asus Z87 series motherboards, which use the intel Z87 Chipset. For abit try the ix48 gt3.

personally, I'll stick with Apple, since I run Mac OS X, as well as Windows 7 Natively. As a matter of fact, All the problems I had running windows on Wintel boxes in the past disappear when running Windows on the Mac using BootCamp.