Right. So my last post was motivation enough for me to go ahead and get those parts ordered. God Bless the open source printers and ebay. These are all cheap upgrades that bring real results. I bought this board from a similar auction: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Control-Moth...UAAOSw9~5ZS5ca

MKS has multiple lines of their boards. There is the Gen and the Base boards. I have a Base board on the GEEETech i3 and it works fantastically. But the integrated stepper drivers with no sockets that are soldered directly to the board are fixed at 1/16 micro stepping and really limit upgrade flexibility. The Gen board will let me use the DRV8825 drivers with 1/32 micro stepping or the tmc2100 drivers that I plan on running now that this printer is 24v. And the touchscreen I ordered was from an auction just like this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/3D-Printer-K...YAAOSwDtpZbyIM