Sir Beregond

Performance wise it's like a 3060. I was running a 4790k until 2022, its a good quad core. Long in the tooth for sure, but if you are getting it for dirt cheap as well as the 1080 Ti, I think should run fine as a 1080p rig, maybe drop some settings in newer games, depending on what you play. That said, 4790 is turning 10 years old and 1080 Ti is turning 7 years old, so I hope you are getting this for basically nothing as it doesn't make much sense to buy this old of stuff.

I wouldn't. Their BIOS team seems to be MIA. Still no 14th gen support. Which yeah say what you want about it as a gen, the rest of the manufacturers had BIOS updates ready to go. I think EVGA is done supporting these motherboards which is a shame since they are the current products.

As a watercolor, Jayztwocents is an idiot. Frankly most watercooling content on any of these channels is hot garbage because its just sponsored EK ads and no one ever talks about prepping loops, part selection, and Jay especially spreads a ton of misinformed opinions or just flat out misinformation. As for watercooling in LTT videos, they always make it look like you can just take parts out of the box, slap a loop together, and pour in tap water from your water bottle. Its quite atrocious.

At this point, I think it's that Nvidia is just a much bigger company than the RTG arm of AMD. They all have issues, but my guess is Nvidia fixes them much faster.

I don't know. My 3080 Ti has been crashing the display driver a ton lately. It aint bulletproof, but somehow people have this impression Nvidia has no problems.

OP stated that they were on a Z590 board already so just looking for a CPU, not an entirely new platform.

4060 Ti is kinda weak so I'd not really expect a problem there. The bottleneck for a 4060 Ti is its narrow 128-bit bus. 1080p? You'll be fine. You might have some newer games that want better CPU's, but I wouldn't say you are specifically bottlenecking the 4060 Ti.

If you already have a board, I'd say a used 10850k, 10900k, or 11700k, 11900k would be fine. 10900k has more cores than an 11700k and 11900k so if you do any productivity workloads/application, that might be the better choice, but for gaming, the 11700k and 11900k would probably be slightly better in single core. Only difference between an 11700k and 11900k is max turbo, otherwise they are the same exact core config. But realistically for gaming, either gen might be better than the other depending on the game. All to say any of these options will be fine. Get whatever is cheaper. Personally, I'd look at 10850k/10900k unless you can get an 11th gen cheaper.

Unless you care about RT/DLSS, that's not an upgrade.

Not a fan of distribution blocks/plates. They don't hold as much coolant as a res and they are impossible to clean. Plus add quite a bit of restrictiveness to the loop.

12900kf and a 3080 Ti? I wouldn't put that on a single 360 rad, I'd want at least two personally. Radiators are where the heat is dissipated so the more the better, especially for parts like the 12900kf and 3080 Ti, both of which are quite power hungry (and as a result, produce a lot of heat).

Once you drain from certain tubes you can really just remove it from a fitting and then take a data vac to the rest of the loop to blow the coolant out through the drain port. I do this on my O11D rig with hard tubing as well as my open test bench with soft tubing. Quick disconnect fittings would help with that as well, but never heard of such a thing for hard tubing.

I always have to laugh when one person has an issue, doesn't properly check components for the source of issue and then turns that into a PSA to not buy a brand.

I would have concerns with the 3090 as a mining card, that they didn't run it with the vram chips overheating. This was a big problem on specifically 3090's due to them having rear mounted chips as well. Aside from that, it's the superior performer over the 4070 which at best matches a 3080. Where the 4070 wins over the 3090 and even the 3080 is the power usage is much lower, but honestly its still way overpriced given the specs.

Yeah that's the same with Steelcase. When they closed our office this year it was still full of Steelcase Leap v2's. Tried to get them to sell me one, but apparently all the furniture had to stay as part of their agreement to get out of the lease. But that goes to your next point. Offices are so chock full of Steelcase, Herman Miller, Knoll, and other products, it almost never makes sense to buy one of these chairs new. I bought a refurbished Leap where they replace the foam and the fabric and aside from some scuffs here and there to the chair body, its pretty nice. Between refurbs, office closeouts, etc. its not hard to get one of these high end chairs for much less than the cost of new.