best motherboard for graphics and video

[murphyj]

I restore historical photos and documents and create and restore videos. I also do some high res graphics. Sometimes I use optical resolututions as high as 3200.

I want to get a motherboard and cpu that can easily handle the load I will be placing on it without bogging down.

I use mostly Adobe products in my work.

I am not a computer expert by no means. Hopefully somebody here more knowledgeable, can help me out by suggesting a suitable motherboard and cpu.

Thanks
John

 

[gaaah]

I would think the best way to attack this problem is to assume you with need a 4K monitor (4096x2160) pixels. And don't confuse a 4K monitor with a 4K TV. The two technologies are merging but are not the same thing yet. Google "4K monitor review". Once you've picked out a monitor, pick out the video card you want to run. Just Google "video card 4K monitor". If you were doing stills the choices are many, but video is much more demanding. It will be good for you to do your own research since you will eventually have to learn this stuff anyway. Then once you have your video card picked out you just need a motherboard that sports the required connector. The connector de jour is PCIe (aka PCI Express). PCIe comes in various connector sizes. More homework for you. Read the Wiki on PCIe. Lastly, since you don't sound like an enthusiast, I would guess that you will also need buy a beefier power supply. Likely a 750W to 1000W ATX power supply will suffice. Often a minimum wattage is specified by the video card manufacturer for your particular video card. Know too that, for extra ummphf, some gamers run two or even three video cards side by side. Look up SLI (Scalable Link Interface). That's a whole other ball of wax that I have no expertise in, but you may actually need it.