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Another way to do it is to order online, pick any address that has its closest best buy within 25 miles of microcenter.
 
Then start customer chat, ask them to price match.  After they price match, change shipping address to your own home.

Sales wise, they aren't the 'top' dog in motherboards when compared to their video cards.

Was messing around with Youtube APIs and this is the result.  Not sure how useful
 
Alphabetically sorted by Brand:
 
Antec GX700 Antec One Antec Three Hundred Two 302 Antec Eleven Hundred 1100 Antec P280 Silent Antec Solo II Silent Antec 300 Three Hundred Antec 100 One Hundred Antec Lanboy Air Ultimate Airflow Modular Antec Dark Fleet DF-85  Tower Azza Genesis 9000 High Performance Full Tower Bitfenix Ghost Bitfenix Prodigy Mini ITX Bitfenix Raider Bitfenix Shinobi XL XL-ATX Bitfenix Merc Value Bitfenix Outlaw Modified ATX Bitfenix Shinobi Value Corsair Obsidian 350D mATX Corsair 900D Corsair 200R Value  Carbide Series  Corsair Vengeance C70   Corsair Obsidian 550D Quiet Computing Corsair 300R Corsair Carbide 400R Corsair Carbide 500R Corsair 600T White Corsair Obsidian  650D Corsair Graphite Series 600T Cougar 6XR9BB Cubitek Mini Cube ITX  Cubitek Mini Ice mITX Small Form Factor  Fractal Design Define R4 Window Fractal Design Node 605 Fractal Design Define R4  Fractal Design Node 304 ITX Modular Fractal Design Define Mini mATX Silent  Fractal Design Core 1000 mATX Compact  Fractal Design Arc Midi Fractal Design Core 3000 Fractal Design Define R3 Arctic White Silent  Fractal Design Define XL Titanium Grey Tower Fractal Design Define R2 Demo PC  Fractal Design Define R2 Silent  MSI Ravager NZXT Phantom 630 NZXT Phantom 820 Full Tower NZXT Switch 810 Full Tower NZXT Phantom 410 NZXT Tempest 410 Elite NZXT H2 Black Silent  NZXT Phantom Premium NZXT Hades Mid-Tower ATX Rosewill Blackhawk Ultra  Sentey Arvina GS-6400B   Silverstone TJ10  Silverstone SG09 mATX Small Form Factor Silverstone Fortress FT03-Mini mITX Silverstone Grandia GD08 Ultimate Media PC  Silverstone TJ11B-W Ultimate Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition Zalman Z11 Plus HF1 Edition Zalman Z11 Plus  

Sorted By Date:
 
  Fractal Design Define R4 Window   Corsair Obsidian 350D mATX  Rosewill Blackhawk Ultra  Corsair 900D  Cubitek Mini Cube ITX  Silverstone TJ10  NZXT Phantom 630  Antec GX700 Value  Silverstone SG09 mATX Small Form Factor  Fractal Design Node 605 Media  Corsair 200R Value  Fractal Design Define R4  NZXT Phantom 820 Full Tower  Azza Genesis 9000 High Performance Full Tower  Fractal Design Node 304 ITX Modular  Zalman Z11 Plus HF1 Edition  Bitfenix Ghost   Corsair Vengeance C70  Silverstone Fortress FT03-Mini mITX  Corsair Obsidian 550D    Bitfenix Prodigy Mini ITX  MSI Ravager  Silverstone Grandia GD08 Ultimate Media PC  Zalman Z11 Plus  Fractal Design Define Mini mATX Silent  Cubitek Mini Ice mITX Small Form Factor  Antec One Value  Fractal Design Core 1000 mATX Compact  Bitfenix Raider  Fractal Design Arc Midi  NZXT Switch 810 Full Tower  Corsair 300R Value  NZXT Phantom 410  Antec Three Hundred Two 302  Bitfenix Shinobi XL XL-ATX  Bitfenix Merc Value  Antec Eleven Hundred 1100  Antec P280 Silent  Bitfenix Outlaw Modified ATX  Corsair Carbide 400R  Corsair Carbide 500R  NZXT Tempest 410 Elite  Bitfenix Shinobi Value  Antec Solo II Silent PC  Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition  Silverstone TJ11B-W Ultimate  Corsair 600T White  Antec 300 Three Hundred  Fractal Design Core 3000  NZXT H2 Black Silent  Corsair Obsidian  650D  Antec 100 One Hundred  Fractal Design Define R3 Arctic White Silent  Fractal Design Define XL Titanium Grey Tower  Cougar 6XR9BB  Corsair Graphite Series 600T  Antec Lanboy Air Ultimate Airflow Modular  Sentey Arvina GS-6400B  NZXT Phantom Premium  Antec Dark Fleet DF-85  Fractal Design Define R2 Demo PC Linus Tech Tips Fractal Design Define R2 Silent  NZXT Hades Mid-Tower ATX 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($189.99 @ Microcenter)
Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LK ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($59.40 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($64.98 @ Outlet PC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card ($259.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Cooler Master HAF 922 ATX Mid Tower Case ($70.00 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 750W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 Professional (OEM) (64-bit) ($129.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $954.92
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-06-28 14:52 EDT-0400)

My recommendations:

Change your power supply from CX750 to CX750M, $4 price difference for some modular connections.
 
Your video card choices, assuming GTX 760 with aftermarket cooler, are all pretty much the same price from all manufacturers.
 
Choose between Gigabyte Windforce, EVGA ACX, Asus Direct CUII, MSI Twin Frozr.  Personally, I think at this point it comes down to preference in aesthetics, and I would go with EVGA ACX.
 
For aftermarket CPU cooler, it depends on your budget, and whether you want to get high overclocks or silent performance.
 
Here is a list of CPU coolers that I've have had used/experienced and would recommend (from cheapest to most expensive)
 
Hyper 212 (EVO) $30
Xigmateck Dark Knight $50
Noctua NHD14 $70
 
Then you get to AIO coolers
From reviews, I'd say Swiftech H220 and Kraken X60 are your best bets.

THe best part about Steam Summer Sale is I don't even know what I want.  But I WILL SOON!!!

(Charts taken from Guru3D)
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_780_sli_review,22.html
 
 
From these results, and your maximum budget of $1000, the following cards are within your budget.
 
Nvidia: 680, 780, Titan
AMD: 7970, 7990
 
So, I'd probably recommend the 7990 on AMD side, and 780 on Nvidia side (Titan is not worth the extra money on top of 780.)
 
EDIT:
 
For battlefield 3, the benchmarks show that the 780, titan, 7990, and 690 all are capable of pushing more than 40 fps at your resolution.
 
While the 780 has 44 FPS in BF3, the 7990 has 72 FPS.
 
AMD's 7990 has a large advantage over the Nvidia cards.  On top of that, it would be a good bet that AMD cards will perform better on Battlefield 4 as well, seeing as how all of the consoles are running AMD and such.

Python 3:
filepath = input("Please input a filepath: ")# Remember to use '\\'# filepath = "C:\\Users\\Eugene\\Desktop\\test.txt"f = open(filepath, "r")lines = [line.strip() for line in f]f.close()lines.sort()w = open(filepath, "w")for line in lines: w.write(line + "\n")w.close()

Sales wise, they aren't the 'top' dog in motherboards when compared to their video cards.

..... I just ordered a h100i... I now regret it after this story... Corsair's water coolers are fantastic but customer support really sells me. I just bought my hard drives from Amazon instead of Newegg, while Newegg had it 10 dollars cheaper, because Amazon's return policy and my experience with them is so much better. I ordered a rubics cube a few months ago and I got energy pills. The sent me a full refund and it took a day to appear in my account.
 
I work customer support. Sometimes I feel like the company does well, other times not. I assume it is the same with all companies. Part of the Razer thing is definitely the loyalty. If someone calls in to where I work if they use us a lot (I can see everything they have ever done with us since 2008.) They get free stuff out the wahzoo. If someone calls in and they don't use us that much they get far less help. Not because we don't appreciate them but because a lot of them are trying to play the system to get free stuff.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_780_sli_review,23.html
 
At the bottom of the page.
 
Image link:
http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=4002

I switched to Windows 8 for the ultra fast boot thing.  After installing a start button, it feels just like Windows 7 except it turns on in like 5 seconds.
 
Gaming-wise, I don't notice a difference.

Schools don't follow common logic, they have a much more convoluted method to computers.
 
For example, the university I attended, you would assume that the engineering majors would need better computers, especially the mechanical/civil engineers who need to use 3D software like Solidworks.  However, because the school had a policy of every student pays the same tuition, they ended up with the worst computers.
 
Why? Engineering professors get paid more otherwise they would just actually work in the industry.  The History major professors get paid a lot less so that department has a lot more money to spend on computers.  

I'm almost positive something has to go wrong for games to tell you that you are out of VRAM.  Usually when you low on VRAM, they just automatically fix that by making stuff farther away disappear, etc.

Gabe knows.  Gabe also knows when HL3 is coming out.  :P

I remember reading that Microsoft actually had more hardware patents than software patents.
 
There are a lot of things that are Microsoft that people do not even realize.
 
IIRC, they are like the top keyboard seller, top mouse seller, top webcam seller, etc.

http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/wasd-sampler-kit.html
 
They have a sampler kit they sell for $10 with all the common keycaps and o-rings.

At this point, having internet go out is pretty much equivalent to having the power go out. Can't do anything until it comes back up.
 
 
Internet down?
Fine, I'll just go watch TV.  Oh wait, I use Netflix. 
Fine, I'll play my new Xbox.  Oh wait, Its a One. 
Fine,  I'll go on my computer.  Oh wait, what good is a computer without internet.

At this point, having internet go out is pretty much equivalent to having the power go out. Can't do anything until it comes back up.
 
 
Internet down?
Fine, I'll just go watch TV.  Oh wait, I use Netflix. 
Fine, I'll play my new Xbox.  Oh wait, Its a One. 
Fine,  I'll go on my computer.  Oh wait, what good is a computer without internet.

At this point, having internet go out is pretty much equivalent to having the power go out. Can't do anything until it comes back up.
 
 
Internet down?
Fine, I'll just go watch TV.  Oh wait, I use Netflix. 
Fine, I'll play my new Xbox.  Oh wait, Its a One. 
Fine,  I'll go on my computer.  Oh wait, what good is a computer without internet.

Going with the 1 module with 8GB gives you the opportunity to at some point add another 8GB for a total of 16GB.
 
The difference in performance from 2x4GB and 8GB will only be noticeable in benchmarks.  I highly doubt there will be any difference in the real world.

"My phone has two cores.  The new xbox has 8.  Holy crap my new xbox is like 4 Times faster than my $600 phone.  How come its not $4800?"
 
XDXD

1st thing to do when you get a new PC:
 
go to another PC, download Google Chrome.  Put it on a USB drive.  Install in on new computer.
 
SMD IE, I'm not even going to use you to install google chrome.

What I think that Corsair is good at is listening to the enthusiasts.
 
If they were to make or relabel motherboards, the first round of boards will probably fall short in different ways, but you can bet your ass that they will fix those issues.
 
My expectation is that they will make sure the motherboard will look nice, have nice placement on all of the connectors, and have the best expansion slot layout.  
 
Key examples? USB 3.0 Right Angle Header.  All-Black motherboard PCB, etc.  
 
Also, I bet Corsair would even bother to put the Front Audio header with the rest of the front panel headers, and not like every other motherboard manufacturer who just put it randomly somewhere in the middle.
 
And you can bet your ass Corsair will make it so that their CLC solutions will fit on even smaller cases, where some motherboards VRM heatsinks are too tall on the top of the motherboard.
 
 
This is what Corsair excels at.  They are quick to understand what the consumer wants when the consumer asks for something that is obvious.
 
Another thing that I think Corsair would be great at would be the UEFI.
 
Where I think Corsair will fall short?   Where things aren't so black and white.  The actual performance of the motherboard besides the aesthetics.  They won't have the experience of Gigabyte or Asus to make a board that is able to overclock as well or be as reliable.
They will cost more than their equally performing counterparts, because of they attention they pay to physical design.