Building a new box for 5 mans!

[MiRai]

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.

ISBoxer's default behavior is to render all of your game clients at the same size as Region 1 of your Window Layout, which is how it's able to broadcast the mouse cursor like it does. I feel that a lot of people who use ISBoxer believe that the smaller windows are rendering at a smaller resolution, when they're actually not, unless they have specifically told ISBoxer to do so. I talk about disabling Instant Swapping in my prior post for this reason.

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.

That's funny you mention NCIX, because I had a similar experience with them last year. They gave me a tracking number which I could not get to work on neither the Canadian UPS site, nor the US UPS site, so I just had to sit around waiting for something to arrive. Whether that was their fault or UPS's fault, I don't know, but they also took their sweet time processing my order before sending it out.

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

I have no desire to maintain something like that, and it's probably easier for people to just watch other hardware forums for deals that are posted there, which are normally seen on sites like Slick Deals. That, and the fact that we'd need to maintain deal sites not only in the US, but in the EU (and UK >_>), as well.