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Magnet wire (enamelled wire) will have thinner insulation than the wire you've used which will help with fitting more turns in. I'd recommend switching particularly as it's much happier with high temperatures.

for 1080p gaming get the i7+1060, and really the 1060 should be more than enough for 1440p if you drop the filters a notch or two.
for 1440p the i5+1070 makes a bit more sense and will give much better fps in games.
 
the i7 is better than the i5 of course but in gaming you won't see much of a diff. however plan to do any heavy processing? go for the i7, its not just the raw performance diff. its HT and more cache and higher clocks.
 

The speed of one lane is the following:
1.0a or 1.1: 250 MB/s 2.0: 500 MB/s 3.0: 985MB/s 4.0: 1969MB/s You might go "how come 3.0 and 4.0 aren't 1000 and 2000 MB/s?" It's because the encoding of the signal changed. 1.0/1.1/2.0 used 8b/10b encoding which means 8 bits are encoded into 10 bits (it's for DC load balancing and other signal shenanigans). So you lose 20% of your actual bandwidth to encoding. PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 use 128b/130b encoding.
 
The reason for this is because it requires less total bandwidth for usable bandwidth. For instance PCIe 2.0 needs a 625 MB/s channel to get the 500 MB/s usable bandwidth. PCIe 3.0 needs 1000 MB/s for the 985 MB/s usable bandwidth.
 
As for power delivery, I believe 75W was standard since the beginning.
 
EDIT: The spec says 75W for graphics cards only. Everything else is limited to 25W. Though this may change.

No, it's infact a older architecture. The enthusiast platform (E, x99 currently) is a bit behind the mainstream.
 
Mainstream Broadwell was only launched a small period before Skylake arrived. This is a result of the fact that Intel can't exactly keep up with their Tick Tock strategy.

So I've installed the anniversary update again and it seems that the freeze issue has gone.

Kids these days...
If you're a gamer on PC, you should know two things:
1) How to press Start
2) How to fix when Press Start doesn't work.
 
If you're having problems with your PC, I'd start diagnosing what causes your issues. We'd be glad to help you out.

a windows vm is the ideal solution imo.

I think power consumption... As they are trying to compete with Intel and their lower TDPs

Engineering samples, in particular early silicon, are clocked really low.

Preface
 
     This guide hopes to answer the question “what is PCIe” and more specifically to help serve as a guide to system planning. I have tried to make this as accurate and as easy to read as I can. If you spot any inaccuracies please let me know so that I can fix them.
 
What is the PCIe Interface?
 
     Peripheral Component Interface - express (PCIe) is a bus that allows expansion cards inside your computer to communicate with other components. You use the PCIe system by putting cards into slots on the motherboard. These cards can be things like graphics cards, RAID cards, network cards, even co-processors. 
 
How Does the PCIe Interface Work?
 
What Exactly Is A Lane?
 
How Does All This Affect Me?
 

Very informative. I'd love to see more in depth information like how to calculate speed based on generation and number of lanes. I'd also like to see how much power does each generation has to offer. We know gen 3 is rated and 75W and gen 4 will be rated at 300W but what about gen1 and 2.  Keep it updated.

Also I found this possible solution

I do not know if this might help but there can be a solution like this in Chromium:
Insert these flags into /etc/chromium/default
CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--touch-devices=10 --enable-pinch"
and you have chromium touchscreen functionality including pinch to zoom and drag scrolling without the need for touchegg at all which eats ram. chromium works directly with the xf86-synaptics-driver to support multitouch in chromium! That is if linux mint uses synaptics and not libinput. I do not know much about mint but its an issue I never encountered with Chrome.