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Will Core X + Vega 64 help my loud hot and slow 2017 15" mbp drive dual 4k displays?

I do web development on my 2017 15" macbook pro (2.8H Ghz Core i7, 16gb RAM, Radeon Pro 555) using clamshell mode with two 27" 4k monitors often at scaled resolutions in order to get extra real estate, and often run Docker, multiple VS Code windows, multiple web servers, multiple browser windows, outlook, excel, slack -- all the usual stuff you'd suspect. Sometimes VSCode will slow to a crawl and even keyboard presses will take a second or more to register in my editor. Activity monitor will show "kernel_task" as high as 400% in these episodes, which tells me there is serious throttling going on due to high temps. I know there are behaviors I could change that would mitigate against this, but am curious if an eGPU would make a big difference here. Running two external 4k displays with scaling can't be easy for my mbp's graphics card, and outsourcing that to a Razer Core should make a noticeable difference in terms of my mbp temperature, right? Does anyone have experience with this?

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