Dem0072

It's nice that EA made a platform for testing all this new rendering tech. It's almost even a game. 

have a look at the second hand market. you can get gtx 1080 is around $300 and it is one of the best value to performance card at the moment.

Gaming wise, i7's are nice, but we're in the era of i9's now, which aren't necessarily for games. 

I'd look into the i5 9600k, its a $250 chip, so you're not looking at an upgrade that would dole out $500. And if your 1080 is truly being bottlenecked, that chip should get you past that. Having a van load of CPU cores isn't got to mean much in every game, as they vary in how they're built. GPU wise, I don't think you really have a great price per dollar move to make until at least 6 months from now, if AMD delivers on its RX 3000 promises. Otherwise, you're stuck waiting till 2020 in hopes that nVidias RTX 2000 successors make a 2070 cheap enough for you to nab. 

You already invested in a 1080 though, so I'd play on that strength at this point and let the markets make a nice price/value pathway forward for you.

I wouldn't go out and buy 1440p or 4k displays though, if you're already having trouble driving them with your current rig you won't be able to address that added visual demand with what you've got. And my feelings are 4-6 months of patience could save you $300+ if AMD meets its mark, which is making 1440p possible on $250 cards. And if they succeed, then all the people who have been holding out on paying for a $350-$400 monitor and a $500 card to drive it will have a viable card at half the price, and the demand for monitors might see some nice price breaks due to two factors. One, an anticipated surge of orders (if AMD succeeds), and two - Lenovo's 240Hz beasts will devalue 144Hz models, likely triggering a sale.

Patience has an opportunity to pay off this year. 

I'm in a similar boat, only I haven't the monitors to dream of 1440p yet.

What I've been researching (and clinging to with some hope) is the AMD RX 3000 family stepping in to address that value problem of paying $500 to smoothly play 1440p games on a high refresh monitor. Supposedly, rumors now, nobody's gotten to crack at benchmarks yet - at some point in the first half of 2019 here AMD's supposed to release them. And the *rumored* price range is under $300, which means if their intended goal of matching or beating a 2070's performance is true, you might get a satisfactory card for your goals that delivers consistent 1440p performance (60+ FPS), and you might find with a couple of minor concessions in game settings 4K to be playable too. 

Do keep in mind, the higher in resolution you go to my understanding (anyone can correct me if I'm wrong) things like AA/AF and other filtering options can be toggled off because the equipment performing is meeting or surpassing what some of those technologies were meant to address on lower resolutions and lesser GPU's to drive them.

Unless the code is actively doing something malicious, like opening every file and overwriting it with "LOLCATS", then no, it's not bad to run the application. In fact, any given application you're running now likely has "bad code" in it. To point, this is an example of elegant (and thus probably good) code, but on a vulnerable system will ruin your day:
:(){ :|: & };: You can't allocate RAM to an application. The application makes request when it needs more to the OS who will then figure out if the application can use it or not.

1. IPS for color reproduction, VA for faster framerate.
2. Yes you can with the proper cables.
3. It is subjective, 1080p is good enough for me.
4. Which one suits your taste, looks the same to me.
5. You won't even see the difference in desktop.

Why don't post your sig my friend ?  1080p is soo 760 GTX days ago....

Shucks.  I tried to hook you up with the best monitor for someone in your profession.  Using PS and Premiere etc..... I mean if the IPS 4k way is expensive try just a 4k monitor 27" 4k IPS panel.  Like this one. This thing is sexy and 400 bones ... two hundred less then the other one I recommended.