What Do You Want More Coverage Of in September?

Good thought. Once we get the i5-8600K in, it will be easier to do this test!

GamersNexus

How about finding out the effectiveness of hyper-threading of new coffee lake chip ? e.g. estimating how effective the HT is contributing to the overall performance (productive / gaming) then arrive at an conclusion of how well is the money spend from i5--> i7

Hank Ni

Noctua claimed that their new series fans (the thin NF-A12-15) FLX could perform similar to 2 of their NFA-12's in a push/pull configuration. If this is the case, then many custom loop setups could benefit from this. The fans have been in research for a little over 5 years if not mistaken. I'm interested in seeing what's their performance of airflow given its interestingly small form factor. PS: I'm not likely to get into water cooling but these fans seem to be a good alternative when space is a limiting factor.

I'd love to see coverage on the new AM4 APUs and how their graphics performance scales with memory speeds

Just one more suggestion to add to the list: A while back you mentioned on askGN that motherboards these days are pretty much nearly the same as more and more components are being moved to the CPU. I would like to see an analysis by you or buildzoid where you compare the components (Capacitators, Transistor, Resistors etc.) used by manufactures. You should probably stick to one generation (z170/X299) for the results to be reliable. The purpose of a test like this would be shine some light on the quality of the motherboards and confirm or disprove myths that are out there about motherboards. E.g. Does MSI really use the cheapest components they can find? Are their components that much worse than ASUS uses? Where do Gigabyte and ASRock rank relative to other manufacturers? Thanks and keep up the good work.

Oakheart

This may be long overdue but I have a couple(your choice) 1. MSI Lightning 1080 Ti thermals and PCB review? 2. This may be long overdue imo, but I would love to see you do a 2017 live PC Build from component selection, the build process itself, and installing "baseline" software i.e. the essentials. Plus some troubleshooting tips in between would absolutely be nice. afaik you haven't done a livestream of you building meant specifically as a guide for new builders so I would love to see you do it.

I was really looking forward to some of the followup coverage to computex. As someone else has mentioned specifically was MSI's flagship X299 Xpower Gaming AC motherboard. As well as some of the G-Sync/Freesync mentioned above. Also looking forward to more open loop adventures, Inderjeet Singh has a great idea about simulating failures that may occur. As much as I don't want to see perfectly good hardware go to waste and I don't want anything unsafe to happen, it would be really interesting to test these sort of things.

Does temperature affect the output of PSUs to a measurable degree ie; with a GFX card with an open air cooler, circulating warm air above a PSU, have a fan in the location of the bottom of a case blowing air across the PSU, mixing the air. Open loop; maybe simulate "failures" ie when a pump loses power/ breaks, does convection occur in the loop and how quickly temperatures climb in idle and load states.

Would it be at all possible to maybe have a reoccurring small-form-factor roundup; this would not only include existing items like cases/PSUs/GPUs, but would research and go over SFF technologies, e.g.: STX-MXM form-factor, PCIe ribbon cables, DP over USB-C (including condensing signals like USB, audio, and video over USB-C), etc.

More general TR coverage would be awesome I think. Also, Vega OC/UV optimizations.

For Steve to sleep more.

Trausti Bergur Traustason

I'd love to see some in-depth testing of high-speed DDR4 (4000+) on both mainstream and HEDT platforms. It would also be very interesting to see the Mesh overclocking impact on x299, especially when paired with high-speed memory. I feel this is an overlooked aspect of x299 that could potentially bring big rewards - we all saw how impressive Ryzen gains were. Additionally, more delidding tests would be fun, and continue on your water cooling journeys with open loops. :)

Osgorth

Perphaps comparing all the ryzen lineup to see their voltage and overclock potential, while also looking at temps and power consumption.

Some G-Sync/Freesync testing would be nice. Blurbusters has done some good work there but it would be cool to get GN's take Specifically regarding optimal settings to reduce input lag and decrease frametime variance

I've requested this once on Discord, but I'll try again - I'd really like to see what v-sync tech (in game vs. adaptive, etc.) does to frame times/ latencies. Thanks!

Open loop indeed - but performance focused. No aesthetic bullshit...

Gahrian

1) Of the top games everyone is playing right now, which scale with multi-GPU? 2) DDR4 speed impact on performance for both Skylake-X and Threadripper. 3) Gaming networking; client-side prioritization (Killer) versus, or in combination with, gaming-router-side QoS. 4) Unified RGB ecosystem, what vendors have a single app that controls the widest variety of RGB devices plus temp/speed etc. (proliferation of tray apps lines up with your bloatware rant). 5) Are any of those phone apps for overclocking & monitoring worth using?

GadgetBlues

Threadripper attempts to record gameplay at 4k on the same system. Dunno how many threads it needs. May also be worth comparing to Shadowplay/ReLive quality in the end.

Streetguru

More Vega overclocking and undervolting, when software better supports it.

Why not do it all? <a href="https://media.giphy.com/media/Nx2Kc8trNHCs8/200.gif" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://media.giphy.com/media/Nx2Kc8trNHCs8/200.gif</a> :P

I would really like to see some benchmarks of the Alphacool Eisbaer 420 CLC on the Threadripper and i9 CPU's and see if it allows any additional overclocking headroom over something like an EVGA CLC 280.

Open loop!

I'm interested in the Threadripper cooler tests because that also provides the opportunity to explore how great the returns are for IHS coverage (something that I think has strong theory-building value). However, I have also ticked other because I would be interested to learn more about what is going on in the mining scene. It seems like that will be influencing PC parts for quite some time, so it would be useful to get a better grasp on how that might progress.

If I had to pick one, open loop. Not sure if there's any major releases coming out soon, but graphics optimization guides are always fun too.

Steve Streza

We also want to see &amp; do that. That's on the list for post-PAX!

GamersNexus

I'm already bored of Vega, I wanna see more of Steve learning how to open loop!

I'm a fan. Test more fans! LoL

Vega trololol

Trent Lloyd