Feel free to skip to "my dilemma". Background: With the F word in mind ("Future-Proofing") -- Back when the GTX480 was released I bought one to keep me warm during the harsh Canadian winters; building a PC with two E5620 Xeon processors (totaling 8 cores @ 2.4ghz) and 12GBs of ECC ram. Grabbed a GTX780 when those came around just to extend the life a bit. It's been running Win7 Professional all-day every-day since I built the thing, with very minor downtime (mostly from blackouts, installs, and upgrades). My C drive has 63,859 hours (2,660 Days, 19 hours sidenote: I just realized my computer has been on for nearly half as long as my little brother has been alive...), and 880 power on counts at the time of writing (Seems high? I wonder if board's on-off-on boot thingy makes it double?)... So I'd go ahead label that as "heavily used". Aside from the occasional 0x124 bugcheck caused by one of my GPUs whenever an application looks at it funny - my trusty workhorse is still going strong. But, it's starting to be a bit shaky while hauling my usual cargo, so I've been reluctantly eyeing my shotgun as of late. It may be time soon to put the ol' gal down... :(
So, I'm looking for advice and opinions for a future upgrade.
As I don't plan to buy anything immediately - my budget is extremely flexible. I game, but do a lot of computation, toying around with AI, content creation, and rendering using nVidia's IRAY so I'm quite interested in the RTX series of cards. I've been thinking about getting a bin+delid i9-9900K from SL (or i9-9920X depending on benchmarks), the highest tier of RTX2080ti EVGA has to offer, and a minimum of 32GBs of high-clocked memory.
Here's my dilemma: my PC is dying but as a wise man once said: "there's a big difference between mostly-dead and all-dead. Mostly-dead is slightly alive!" and as such, I could very well continue to use this PC for a year or two more.
So;
Should I go for a build similar to what I mentioned above sooner rather than later, or would it be better to hold out for 2019~2020 next-gen RTX and the expected 10nm node?
Should I be considering AMD's Ryzen more than I am? I'm trying to get excellent gaming performance for years to come but with the capabilities of a 8+ core CPU that has a minimal amount of performance "quirks".
Bonus points for anyone who can point me towards a 4K HDR display that's roughly around 110~120ish ppi with latency & blur suitable for gaming (pro color accuracy isn't important)