Fixed it, although the 1230 is pretty expensive atm for some reason, might be cheaper at microcenter though.

Haswell-E would be at least 200$ for the mobo, 600$/400$ (8C/6C) and probably 100$ or more for 8GB DDR4 RAM.

May I suggest a Xeon?
Yes, the clockrate is slightly lower (3.3GHz vs 3.4GHz), although you can get an E3 1240 v3 (3.4GHz) if you think it's worth 20 bucks more and it will demolish anything in terms of streaming performance apart from an i7 or other more expensive Xeons.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($244.30 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($74.24 @ Amazon)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($59.99 @ Microcenter)
Storage: Sandisk Ultra Plus 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($84.00 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card ($249.95 @ Amazon)
Case: Silverstone PS08B (Black) MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Antec TruePower Classic 650W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $0.00)
Total: $812.45
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-19 13:56 EST-0500)

Afaik VGA is cabable of 2048x1536px @85 Hz (388 MHz) ~ 1440x1080 @170Hz ~ 1024x768 @340Hz ~ 921x691 @420Hz.
You're usually limited by the monitor, iirc most aren't built to handle higher bandwidth than needed so if you want to up the refresh rate you have to turn down the resolution anyway.

Reinstalling doesn't necessarily mean that you ran -autoconfig.

If you replaced configs anyway then backup your settings/binds, delete everything, launch with -autoconfig and then use your normal launch options and configs (settings+chris) again.

1. GPU usage?
2. Why stabby's config, just WHY?

Other than that, welcome to TF2.

Don't worry, it's hashed, they will only recognize them if they already knew those sites.

See #3
If you're not comfortable with VAC checking wether you use cheats or not while playing on a VAC secure server, then you shouldn't play on VAC secure servers. I mean that's the point of AC, checking for cheats.

On the other hand an AC client that is able to access every file on your PC while mining bitcoins, when it shouldn't even be running is clearly doing a little bit more than just checking for cheats.

As a european, I can confirm.

EU TF2 was nonexistent before we had ESEA and it instantly vanished again as soon as we dropped ESEA.

ESL was dropped for less than ESEA. ETF2L got boycotted for a season because they allowed unlocks. EU is stubborn as fuck, never thought about what's good for competition/spectators/"the scene" and still survived.

I'm not asking anyone to make stupid decisions (like some of what EU did in the past), but almost no one understands why you are willing to put up with whatever shit ESEA is throwing at you, for the sole reason that they have a LAN with prices.

It would be interesting to hear from those "50%" of invite players if they would actually quit tf2 and refuse to play CEVO if ESEA drops tf2 or not.

Website, LAN and everything else aside:

How do you expect the competition in CEVO to get better if you refuse to play CEVO because "the competition isn't as good as in ESEA"?

Glorious 1440p

So we have animal A that is well below the size and weight of the average prey animal S of predator B.
What do you expect to happen when for some reason B is trying to kill A?

A big adult male polar bear can kill a 2 ton walrus and believe it or not, you're way more likely to get your eyes stabbed out or being killed by 3 feet long tusks than by opposable thumbs.

Afaik the US spends almost double of what Canada is spending per capita.
Maybe it's not about how much money you put into it and rather how you use it?

I swear to god make this happen or I will punch you!