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Have you ever done a video on using modern-day water cooling and custom cooling solutions on old GPUs to find out how much thermals really held them back? Like pull out an old 660 or something and pop some nex level cooling on it to see how much difference it makes?
Edit: Rinse and repeat with other favorites of their era. Pitting Radeon and Nvidia competitors against each other to see who would have really won if their cooling game was strong.

Have you ever done a video on using modern-day water cooling and custom cooling solutions on old GPUs to find out how much thermals really held them back? Like pull out an old 660 or something and pop some nex level cooling on it to see how much difference it makes?
Edit: Rinse and repeat with other favorites of their era. Pitting Radeon and Nvidia competitors against each other to see who would have really won if their cooling game was strong.

http://www.banggood.com/EXP-GDC-Laptop-External-PCI-E-Graphics-Card-p-934367.html

More Microphones, I feel like they are overlooked in someones setup but when you are a broadcaster or just even use TeamSpeak or Mumble a nice mic really draws people in.
 
Also Windows on a iMac for some 5k gaming sounds really neat. Also very curious about the real world gaming performance of the  R9 295XM.

Still using mine, X1700 is giving me the upgrade itch though, wife would kill me, I only got the 1080 4 months ago.... Also, it's not really needed as you said, the 4790k is still an awesome chip and I can get 4.93ghz outta mine!

Well considering theirs been barely any IPC Improvement since, Its still Dat Boi for me  

Most games favor high single core performance, and don't leverage more than 4 cores. Some new games leverage more than 4, but there's almost no benefit of using more than 6 currently. We're moving to where quadcores lacking Hyperthreading/SMT are starting to bottleneck higher end cards at 1080p, but that's more to do with how HTT can be leveraged to optimize how resources are allocated.
 
You've also got to deal with the clock speeds of most Xeons being lower than consumer Core i products, not to mention i7 extremes and K SKU Core i can overclock (without modification to the BIOS or CPU microcode) to widen that performance gap, and consumer Core i products (quadcore i7's, i5's, and i3's) currently have slightly higher per clock performance (approximately 3% improvement).
 
Outside of using a kernel virtual machine to put multiple users at the same time, like UnRAID, using high core count Xeons over any Core i for gaming is shooting one's self in the foot. It's just too expensive, and when a CPU bound game demands single core performance, Xeons can't keep up.

In my experience, its always going to be better to buy a single higher performing X rather than multiple lower performing Ys.  This is true in general (there are always exceptions) with CPUs, and GPUs.  if you have two cheaper (an likely older) quad cores for 8 threads, likely the architecture will be less effective/efficient and your either going to be pouring money away in power or losing out on performance over a single newer and therefore pricier 8-core CPU.  Also bear in mind that you need to spend 2X whatever the older CPU costs for a second one.  so unless they are less than half what youd pay for a single solution, your still losing money.
 
At the end of the day, do what you want.  These days the performance difference is probably 5 - 10% which is pretty negligible.  But it will be there.  you sacrifice A TON of practicality by using a dual socket motherboard as most cases wont fit them without modding.
 
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Dual socket won't be any faster, and normally slower as there are longer latencys and multiple numa nodes. Some games won't even launch
 
You also needs xeons(or server cpu's) and the boards are very expensive.

1) those CPUs do not support multi-CPU configurations
 
2) adding more CPUs does not give any benefit for gaming
 
3) those multi-CPU motherboards are for servers

I got a 4790K two months ago.   The 7700K isn't that much better.

4790k has a place in my heart, i got mine for 150usd from craigslist in NewYork. 

Well the general statement of "i5 is for gaming" is dead/dying. I'm not saying if someone has a 6600k they should go upgrade to a 6700/7700k etc - I'm saying when we give advice for new builds, we should always try and fit an i7 into the budget provided it can be and it doesn't gimp the rest of the system.
 
 

7700k has replaced the 4790k
 
id waid and see how ryzen does. its gonna be out later this week

If you search a bit in forums, there are couple users planning on something unofficial. @AluminiumTech already has something sort of unofficial going on. But forum integration isn't really a thing since IPB hasn't public API.

Isn't that same thing with having shortcut from homescreen to forums?
 
Also, check out latest on this subject at:
https://linustechtips.com/main/blogs/entry/1203-lttforum-app/
 

As others have said, it wouldn't be financially viable to make an app. Time and money aren't infinate unfortunately.

They currently don't see the point in making a mobile app because they already have a responsive website which works pretty well on mobile. Making the mobile app would just require unnecessary work with respect to the benefits it would yield.

All of that was done on Roll20. You need to be a subscriber for the dynamic lighting though.

You Sir, can have one of my internets.