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Linus, you wanted wacky ideas, here is mine, what if you built 4 machines with one of Intel's upcoming 24 or 28 core processors, and then create 4 VMs on each machine, with 4 1070s, 1070 Tis. 1080s, 1080 Tis, 2070s, 2080s, or 2080 Tis, and then use the corning thunderbolt cable, you could also use one of those PCIE expansion boards for the thunderbolt cards, with a dongle like you did with your home PC to put the PCs in a different part of the building, water cool them with the cpu in a single loop much like with what you did with whole room water cooling back in the day, incorporating the lessons you learned from that, or use that water chiller to cool each PC to then get the the ultimate quite setup, no matter what load you put the PC's through, you could even build all of the PC's into a server rack, making it easier to move/upgrade later, this would also reduce the clutter on the tables, since each station would only need a thunderbolt dongle a mouse, a keyboard, and a monitor.  
 
 
 
 

Whole-room water cooling V2
Solves the heat issue! And you have experience so you can learn from the mistakes that were made.
 
Maybe it's possible to have like a massive monitor or projector that displays a mirror of all 16 displays into 1 massive one, not required but shouldn't be too difficult to do with the right hardware.

What is the general size of the room / Area?

I've designed many esport/gaming rooms back here in Denmark I could easily figure something out of how it could look =)

Haven't posted much here. But, I wanted to give you some thought about what you will potentially need to cool this area. I design hvac systems for a living, and this is just recommendations based off math. This is not taking anything like people load, window load, insulation values, etc into account.
 
With that said, here are some figures:
 
1 watt = ~3.41 btu/hr
1 ton of cooling = 12,000 btu/hr
1 ton of cooling = 400cfm of air
 
Let's say each machine will pull a maximum of 600w from the wall. That means its converting 600w into heat. That is 2046 btu/hr for each machine.
 
16 machines x 2046 btu/hr = 32736 btu/hr.
 
Let's estimate the server at 1000w. Thats rougly 3,412 btu/hr.
 
Heat load for all your machines + server would be 36,148 btu/hr.
 
You will need roughly 3 tons of cooling capacity for the machines alone! That's not including people, (since people put off heat too) and that is roughly 400 btu/hr per person (so add another 6400btu/hr to your total) and this is not accounting for insulation ( i do not know your R-value there) or windows, or which direction the building is facing, etc.
 
I would recommend no less than 4 tons (1600 cfm) of cooling capacity for this space. Just food for thought.
 

I'd bet they produce enough clean energy that gets put back into the grid to compensate.

How about @LinusTech attending WWDC 2018? https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/register/

HOLY BALLS YES! Whole Warehouse Watercooling lol 

Id get the ftw for the board. As not really happy with the oc of the reference boards. Would rather have blowers on them and look better and get the same performance.

I believe the EVGA FTW has the best power delivery of your list, which should provide the most reliable overclocking, but statistically they should all be in the same ballpark regarding their max speeds so it's not worth a large price variance.
 
 
 
I had serious overheating and throttling issues with my turbo design card and had to remove the cooler and add a G12 + AIO to get any sort of reliable performance out of it. Now, it overclocks to ~2100 MHz without issue and never goes above 70C.

I would get the MSI Seahawk or  a 1080Ti

I have two Seahawks and love them.

GTX 1080 is such a nice little energy efficient chip, a water cooler on that is absolutely pointless IMHO...unless it's just for the show i guess...

either go super cheap or go with a 1080 ti with an AIO, buying a 1080 with an AIO this late into the cycle is awk.

The cheapest 1080 Ti on reference pcb which is the Asus Turbo right now, and an AiO.

Just buy a 1080ti...

Be careful you don't spend so much that you could have brought a 1080 ti instead. Also have you considered doing it yourself using an off the shelf aio from the likes of corsair or NZXT and a mounting bracket. I think NZXT even do a pre done kit for doing this and making it look nice. 
 
If you want to do it yourself, check out gamersnexus, they have a few guides on their site/ youtube channel for doing this.

one with a Heatkiller IV, like mine
 
id probably go EVGA or MSI, Inno3D im unsure and the Gigabyte one just looks bad. the EVGA FTW should have the FTW PCB which is pretty nice and the MSI card probably has the Gameing X PCB which is also really good

Personally I'd choose any but the Inno3D as I don't trust something like water cooling with a lesser known brand. I could be wrong... You're overclocking I'm guessing so there shouldn't be that much variance between them all aside from aesthetics... That's all I've got

2017 version of this 
 

Mac vs PC from a content creators perspective (both video and musical); put the argument to bed once and for all

Maybe another Hackintosh build, this time for High Sierra (Whether the Niresh build or the Unibeast method).

@LinusTech Review the Dell AW3418DW, please.
 
Its still the only 34" Ultrawide 1440p, 120hz, G-Sync, IPS display on the market. It costs as much (or less, depending on when you get it) as a PG348Q, atm. Its no wonder then, that this display is getting great written and user reviews.
 
Simply put as per TFTcentral, "This monitor is now the benchmark for ultrawide gaming response times and refresh rates." (source: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_alienware_aw3418dw.htm#overclocked)
 
Despite all that, there is only only ONE youtube review at the current time (in english) by a smaller tech channel.
 
Thanks for everything you guys do, signed up specifically to bring this issue up. 
 
 

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Our server room is a MESS. Let's fix that.
 
 

Got Steam? Go to the VR section of the store and sort by low price first, and take your pick.
 
As specific suggestions to start with: The Lab, Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine, nvidia funhouse.