You make a very excellent point about Crossfire, and I should have clarified that in my original post. When I suggest that one could get a second card later, my intent was for playing 1440p titles like Witcher or something.

Additionally, I would clarify my intent with my suggested build more clearly. When I think of someone getting into boxing, I don't think of them doing a lot of character switching. I don't, and I started boxing a long, long time ago. I suspect most people getting started will run similar to what I do, with a large 1080p window for the tank, running at 60+ FPS at high settings. With the minions running at 720p or lower, capped at 30 fps and low settings. Entry level boxer is likely imo going to be letting isboxer configure those windows, which will not be the full 1440p on each window. Yeah, it's a little jarring if I switch to another character to do something specific, but I'm not too bothered by it. Personally, I see running everything full tilt as being a luxury, high end boxer type of thing.

In that case, I can attest to the 480 working perfectly fine. I had one in for testing not long ago, and tested it with my team on my normal rig and saw perfectly acceptable performance using the settings I described above. Obviously, it's not as good as running a 980 TI or a 1080, but it's not meant to be.

As for online shopping, I agree with you generally speaking Mirai. I have a short list of dealers I am willing to deal with. After I built this rig late last year I learned I will never, EVER do business with NCIX again for example (a month before they even shipped my water cooler from Canada, I got my monitor from Korea faster than that). You can however edit the price sources in pcpartpicker to show only the stores you want to shop from, including down to a single store.

Additionally, looking at full rig bundles on newegg is not a bad idea either, if nothing else to get a ballpark of what you can get in a certain price range. Here's where they list all of the available DIY Super Combos.

http://www.newegg.com/DIY-PC-SuperCo...Y-Super-Combos

Also, I would add in addition to Slick Deals, Dealzon is nice (if a little bit of a pain to navigate). However, Tek Syndicate does a weekly list of deals from both eBay and Dealzon on their front page.

https://www.dealzon.com/

https://teksyndicate.com/

MiRai maybe we should make a sticky for online sources like this?