Upgraded tuners are almost always a good investment. As long as you have the side markers, I am guessing you'll get used to not having fret markers. I find that I don't look at the top of the fingerboard much. It's the side that I look at...which means that I own one of the few guitars you'll see that has fret-markers on both sides of the neck. I play right handed, but have a guitar with a left handed neck. When I got a good deal on a lefty neck it didn't occur to me that I'd have to add the dots to the side that would normally be "down" on a lefty.