Lol, George. You got it, healthy mix of sarcasm and brutal truth it is!
1156 and single core are far and away the most affordable route for racking up globals.
If you have LN2 coming you're golden. That's the biggest hurdle in the global game.
One nice thing about high end hardware is that stuff sells pretty readily.
Especially if you buy GPU's at release, bench em, then sell 2-3 weeks later when they're out of stock everywhere. I've even made a profit a few times doing that with flagship cards.