Whether or not he cheated is so incredibly irrelevant, the only justice I demand is compensation for the drama I was denied.

Unbanned because the ban doesn't affect TF2.
That was underwhelming.

#2381
So where is that partlist?

#2396
Forgot to ask about overclocking.
If yes, then something like this.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-7600K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($328.00 @ Shopping Express)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($61.09 @ Kogan)
Motherboard: ASRock - Z270M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($169.00 @ IJK)
Memory: GeIL - SUPER LUCE 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($174.90 @ Umart)
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($138.00 @ Shopping Express)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($94.00 @ Shopping Express)
Video Card: Asus - Radeon RX 470 4GB STRIX Video Card ($273.00 @ Umart)
Case: Cooler Master - N200 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($59.00 @ Shopping Express)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($85.00 @ Shopping Express)
Monitor: BenQ - XL2411 24.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor ($399.00 @ Centre Com)
Total: $1780.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-07-11 03:51 AEST+1000

Get whatever case you want.

Which would be the monitor running above 144 Hz? And why do you need a XL2411 in addition to that?
What is that about reliability? How are fps related to reliability?

He already did that, according to my sources he claims it's an account he had already sold.
Trying to prove that is going to lead to some juicy drama.

Headsets are shit.
More at 11.

I like that I somehow answered the question which got a better price to performance ratio without ever knowing any price.

This reads like an exercises from a math schoolbook.
x = price of 1060
y = price of 1070
z = price of 1080
x = z/2
y = x + 150

3 variables, only 2 equations -> not uniquely solvable.

Also bang for buck is a terrible metric when you're comparing 3 things where the fastest is almost twice as fast as the slowest and twice as expensive. If you want e.g. 60 fps at certain settings and only the fastest will get you that all other options are useless regardless of bang for buck. If even the slowest is fast enough then anything more expensive is a waste of money.

1060 3GB or 6GB?

Depends on the settings.
Just look in the benchmark thread or ask someone with a Zen based CPU.

You're oversimplifying this a bit, this isn't about Intel vs AMD, it's about architectures.
Also IPC even depends on programs.
So while on average it's Bulldozer < Sandy Bridge < Ivy Bridge < Haswell < Zen < Broadwell < Skylake = Kaby Lake in some programs Broadwell will have higher IPC than Zen and in some it will have lower.
Then there's even weirder things where due to some microarchitectural fuckery some things are actually slower on Haswell than on Sandy Bridge.

This isn't just about clockrate, but also about IPC.
Also you have to actually get the 7700K to 5.0 Ghz.
If I had to guess I'd say about 25-35% for TF2, in modern games if you're actually using high settings you'll be running into a GPU limit and the difference will be ~2%.

#2381

Then you should probably google it.

How are you going to get <1TB with SSD + HDD? 500GB HDD? Might as well just get a larger SSD and nothing else.

Front panel USB ports or total?

Would love to see that build, 700$ budget minus >200$ for a 144 Hz monitor but also a GPU and CPU good enough to stream while getting 144 fps? Seems rather difficult.

#2382
Would a 250GB SSD be better?
XL2411Z?
Minimum would be passive cooling, but I'll see what I can do.
Any GPU can run >=2 monitors.
Only for TF2/source games you don't really need a good GPU, unless you're going for max settings.

That is called speedstep.
There are very good reasons why your CPU is changing frequencies and if you don't understand them then you should probably not look for ways to disable that behaviour.

#2377 & #2379
https://youtu.be/Y6ljFaKRTrI?t=7

#2378
I'm assuming you're not going to overclock?
Something like this
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i3-7100 3.9GHz Dual-Core Processor (£100.74 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock - B250M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£75.23 @ More Computers)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£109.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£83.32 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.99 @ Aria PC)
Case: Cooler Master - N200 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£44.74 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£48.44 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £500.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-07-04 21:27 BST+0100

and then a GPU of your choice, up to a 1060 6GB or 580 8GB, depending on how much performance you need. Just for TF2 and browsing far less would be enough, depending on the settings in TF2 even just the integrated graphics.
You can also change the storage capacity (or even omit the HDD) depending on how much you need.
An i3-7300 or 7320 would also be possible, but the difference in performance is marginal (<=5%).
Likewise if you definitely won't need the integrated graphics a Pentium G4620/4600/4560 would be only marginally slower but significantly cheaper.

No.
Also don't mess settings you don't understand.

That said there might be an "unlocked" BIOS for your model. Be aware that if it's not actually compatible or if something goes wrong during flashing it will brick the laptop.

Answered on steam, OC'd GTX 780 ~ RX 570, so whichever is cheaper, same/almost the same -> 570.