@rorie: It's almost certainly an issue at their end, and for me it happens intermittently, but often enough for it to be incredibly frustrating. I ran a few tests and all were comparable, results of last one below. It's usually worst on live streams, but it's a bit of pot luck.
ID: xxx (PM if you need it) Date: Fri Aug 18 21:16:30 2017 DNS IP: x.x.x.x (GB) (AS6871 British Telecommunications PLC) Client IP: x.x.x.x (GB) (AS6871 British Telecommunications PLC) Protocol: HTTP/1.1 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.101 Safari/537.36 Cookies: yes Edge IP: 23.1.243.26 23.1.243.22 Latency: 24ms Speed: 5.8Mbps
40Mb connection, using fast.com or speedtest.net I get 35-38 Mb/s. Running the same test though a VPN gets similarly poor results.
You should be fine with the graphics card, and to answer one of your other questions there's no real need for a sound card these days, the motherboard will probably have 5.1 or 7.1 audio and the onboard chips are pretty good now. You'll have to do a little research on the rest, I'd probably see how it is with just the new (or additional) graphics card and decide whether you need to go further, as that Xeon might well be meaty enough to deal with most games. Send me a PM at some point if you want any further advice as I'm sure to miss anything else posted.
You won't be able to do what you want, and would probably be better off selling the workstation and starting from scratch, but you could probably replace the graphics card and add some RAM if you wanted something decent, with some caveats. Alternatively, buy a good Xeon processor (or two - I think that motherboard has dual sockets) and go nuts.
Dell usually use non-standard power supplies, motherboards, and cases. This isn't universal, but enough that it makes suggesting upgrading one of their PCs inadvisable, but I've not seen this particular PC to be sure. Looking over the specs makes it seem like it should have a lot of space and power though.
The motherboard is a socket LGA 2011-3 motherboard, and the 4790k uses an LGA 1150 socket, so they are incompatible. This means either replacing the motherboard, or getting a processor which is compatible with that socket, and that particular motherboard. If you look on Dell's site they do give a list of upgrades, all of which are Xeons (usually used for servers and workstations) rather than more gaming or desktop orientated chips. Some of the Xeons are fine for gaming, but usually expensive, although I do hear of people getting good deals on them in the US. The enthusiast line of Intel processors might well work in that PC as well, but you'd have to confirm that.
You could probably upgrade the graphics card without issue, but you'd have to check case space, PSU connectors and wattage, and hopefully the motherboard wouldn't have an issue with a "consumer" graphics card in a workstation board. That motherboard should support 4 graphics cards so I would think the PSU and the space should not be an issue.
For the RAM, you could upgrade it but you'd (I assume) be using server-grade DDR4 RDIMM chips, which are likely more expensive.
It's all a bit of a risk. If you can sell it safely, people would probably pay decent money for it (for example a new one with those specs are going new over here in the UK for over £2,000 direct from Dell with discounts). You could then probably buy everything you want and have cash left over.
I'm sure others will give some opinions as well. If you're going to get the graphics card regardless then that would be a good upgrade in itself. I'd just be conscious that it is a workstation rather than a gaming motherboard, so you may not get the full performance in games that you would expect to get. Alternatively, might be fine. Sorry, clouding the waters now. I'll stop rambling.
From watching it on UPF the style and the sounds were great. Like Jeff said, if it could be tightened up that would be good. The throw / grapple animation with Snake Fist jumping on their opponent and jabbing them, and the two characters gradually sliding down looked really nice, not just in the context of this game. I really hope you can continue on with what is obviously a passion project and keep improving it, because it has a lot of charm and a lot of potential. Best of luck and good work!
The XBone controller and Windows 10 issue cropped up for me a few days ago. In my case when I unplugged the controller it would cause beeping and a laggy cursor when moving the mouse, and eventually locked up all input. To resolve it I removed update KB3140768, then used the M$ "show or hide updates" tool to hide that update and stop it from being reinstalled, and restarted. On another PC I also had to manually replace the xinputhid.sys driver for the controller to the one previously installed, but I think that was due to not uninstalling the update properly. You may be able to just replace the driver without uninstalling the update.
As you might guess, the cause is an updated xinputhid.sys driver which is used by the XBone controller and probably others, and is included in that Windows update.
Coincidentally I had the beeping / laggy cursor / dwm.exe issue last night after unplugging my XBone controller from the PC. Apparently it is caused by a Windows 10 update, KB3140768. I have uninstalled the update, and used the Microsoft "show or hide updates" tool to prevent it from being automatically reinstalled, and thus far all OK.
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