First I would like to say thanks for taking the time to respond. Lots of food for thought here and has made me realize that what I initially thought a simple question isn’t so simple. I now believe that I should upgrade my GPU and display.

I am leaning towards a GTX 770 4GB or a GTX 780TI 3GB (I know there are better cards but I want to stay below $750.00)

AND

1 27” tn panel
Or
3 24” panels



IPS is nice, but they typically cost more and are susceptible to higher refresh rates when compared to TN panels; but, if you care about calibrating the color of your monitor to be perfect, then an IPS panel is going to allow you to do that.

The only way I'd recommend a 27" monitor is if you were moving up to 1440, but running 5 clients on a GTX 680 at 2560x1440 might be less than acceptable performance (it would be for me anyway).
So ignorance is bliss right? I have never seen an IPS panel so I wouldn’t know what I am missing. However I do know that low frame rates don’t make me happy.

My take away is that I am going to sacrifice some frame rate to run a 27” IPS panel with my GTX 680. I am not sure what yours or anyone else consider acceptable frame rates but I believe that I am usually hovering around 60 frames. There are spikes now and then and those can hurt.




If you have multiple GPUs attached to specific monitors, then you might incur a slight performance hit when swapping game clients from one monitor to another, but that also depends on your Window Layout in ISBoxer.
If I setup my isboxer screen layout to incorporate all clients on one screen, is there any performance hits when swapping clients if running multiple GPUs. Seems that you are saying that the lag in performance with multiple GPUs is when swapping a client from one display on one GPU to another display and GPU

Sorry for the “hello it’s Mr. Obvious question”. Just want to make sure that I understand.


GSync and FreeSync are completely unnecessary for multiboxing because it's recommended that you disable VSync altogether when multiboxing which completely removes the need for either of those new technologies. If you play a lot of games solo and screen tearing really ruins your gaming experience to the point where you're going to punch a hole in your screen, then maybe it's time to start looking into GSync or FreeSync (or anger management).
I wasn’t aware of the VSync setting. I will make sure to check this and disable if needed.


I doubt that's caused by the HDTV alone because WoW doesn't know that it's running on an HDTV rather than a monitor and it should be displaying everything like normal. I'd assume that a handful of people run their games (solo or multiboxing) on HDTVs and if that was the case you'd see more reports of weird distortion, but it sounds like it might be time to clean out your cache folder and let it rebuild.
I don’t know why this got me thinking about DirectX versions, but I checked this last night and found that I was running DirectX9 in my isboxer settings but DirectX11 in my game client. I changed this and it seemed to help.

The cache that you are referring to is in isboxer?


While the idea behind the cheap Korean monitors is nice, I do have a few problems with them:

1) Any reputable monitor is going to come with a 3-year warranty. These Korean panels come with a 1-year warranty.
2) Are you 100% certain that someone from Korea is going to honor your warranty if something goes wrong?
3) You typically pay more for monitors that are guaranteed to have no dead pixels.
4) You can buy the same monitor in the US from Micro Center and opt to pay for an extended warranty if you want, but you also don't have to ship your monitor back to Korea if it breaks and needs to be replaced.
Yeah after I looked into this a bit I found videos talking about how some of these are Apple display rejects and most will certainly have some dead or stuck pixels. I am not much of a gambler so this is probably not the road for me.


Running the displays is unlikely to be an issue, but running five game clients at acceptable video settings and FPS could be an entirely different story.
This along with some of your other comments got me looking at different GPUs. I am curious if you have any thoughts on whether or not it’s better to run multiple displays (3) on a GTX 770 SC with 4GB or on a faster engine like a GTX 780Ti that only has 3GB.