Intel_man
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Well the whole idea of spending the extra $30 now is so when that "couple years" go by and you're going to notice your computer's no longer as fast on the newer games that come out in that couple years, you'll want to see what you can do to increase that performance again. That means, you can get a new processor at that time (in which the Cannonlakes are suppose to be for LGA1151 socket. Support will most likely come via a BIOS update for the mobo). Also, M.2 SSD support will be there if you wish to pursue that route at one point. Or maybe USB 3.1 is more wide spread, and you want that in the form of a PCI-E expansion card. Or maybe there's a change of plans for where you want to put your computer in what room and now you need to connect to the internet wirelessly via another PCI-E expansion cards. To me, getting a motherboard is all about the options for future additions to prolong the life of your computer before you have to start from scratch again.
Think about it, in a few years time. Maybe you don't want a new CPU, but you just want some new functionality that was implemented on those newer motherboards, those usually will come in PCI-E expansion cards. With a full-size ATX board, you have more of those PCI-E slots. Therefore, you have more options on what you can put in there. But with a mATX board that has a limited amount of PCI-E slots, usually 1 for video card and 1 more that's available. All about options, options and options.
As for the video card, CS:GO should run fine in a GTX 950 (infact, pretty much any videocard made within the past few years should be good for CS:GO), but if you plan on playing black ops 3 like you mentioned earlier... you're in for a bad time as the GTX 950 will struggle. The GTX 1060 3GB should slot in between the the GTX 970 and 980. Personally, I'm not a fan of the GTX 1060 3GB as it's actually marginally slower than the 1060 with the 6GB vram. Not really beacuse of the additional ram, but because the amount of CUDA cores is lower on the 3GB version. But it is priced $50 less for the 3GB one.
Think about it, in a few years time. Maybe you don't want a new CPU, but you just want some new functionality that was implemented on those newer motherboards, those usually will come in PCI-E expansion cards. With a full-size ATX board, you have more of those PCI-E slots. Therefore, you have more options on what you can put in there. But with a mATX board that has a limited amount of PCI-E slots, usually 1 for video card and 1 more that's available. All about options, options and options.
As for the video card, CS:GO should run fine in a GTX 950 (infact, pretty much any videocard made within the past few years should be good for CS:GO), but if you plan on playing black ops 3 like you mentioned earlier... you're in for a bad time as the GTX 950 will struggle. The GTX 1060 3GB should slot in between the the GTX 970 and 980. Personally, I'm not a fan of the GTX 1060 3GB as it's actually marginally slower than the 1060 with the 6GB vram. Not really beacuse of the additional ram, but because the amount of CUDA cores is lower on the 3GB version. But it is priced $50 less for the 3GB one.