RTX 2080 founders edition vs 1080ti mini 1080p (psu recommendation too & 8400 bottleneck?)

[Chaos Gamer]

So I am building a gaming PC for $2100 and after researching for a whole year and waiting for the next gen cards, this is the best gaming PC you can put together for my budget in my country right now (goddamn these taxes and shipping costs. You wanna hear something mind blowingly ridiculous? the 2080ti costs $1800 here, and its sold out... the iPhone Xs max? $2100 only lol)

-2080 founders edition (before you say anything against it, I have a good reason for choosing a RTX 2080 and I'll explain it below)

-i5 8400 (now this has been bothering me, will this bottleneck my gpu really badly? but I'm a bit tight on my budget to go for an 8600k, which costs $360 here  and that doesn't include the cooler, it was only $263 before, then the Intel cpu shortage struck)

-h370 aorus gaming 3 wifi rgb

-no ssd, barracuda 2tb, will probably get optane 16 gig

-cooler master mb500 with triple led fans

-corsair tx650m 80+ plus gold, psu tier 2 mostly or tier 1 in some sites

Now I did go through all the PSU tier list across the web, and this PSU is really good, and it's a lot cheaper at $90 compared to other good PSUs. So will this be enough for ray tracing? In most reviews, the total system consumed around 400-410 watts with a 2080 FE. So should I stick with this or should I go for 750w? psucalc calculated 443w for non overclocked pc, and 523w for a decent overclock.

 

So now coming to the GPU, the cheapest 1080ti here is the zotac mini for $850~, which essentially is a crap card with a 1080 cooler strapped onto it running at 85°C on load, just like the MSI armor edition, which goes for $870~, and you know what the next cheapest card is? That's right, the 2080 FE coming in at $950, there's no other 1080ti cheaper than this and 2080 AIB cards start at $1025, now tell me, should I go with a loud 1080ti that runs on 85°C on load, and thus reducing lifespan, or a RTX 2080 that has DLSS (the most exciting feature) and ray tracing and performs a bit better, for a $100 more?

[zak rooley]

I vote RTX 2080 and that power supply is fine.

[Chaos Gamer]

2 minutes ago, zak rooley said:

I vote RTX 2080 and that power supply is fine.

what about the i5 8400, will it bottleneck my gpu really badly?

[FloRolf]

The 85° does not reduce the lifespan.

You are also being HEAVILY bottlenecked by the resolution you are playing at. Getting anything over a 1070 is a waste for normal 1080p usage. 

No SSD is a really bad choice even with optane. 

[zak rooley]

1 minute ago, Chaos Gamer said:

what about the i5 8400, will it bottleneck my gpu really badly?

I don't think it would in my opinion. Though you are missing a ssd that is very important your PC will feel like a mid 2000's pc without one

 

 

[Chaos Gamer]

2 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

No SSD is a really bad choice even with optane.

i dont really care, i've been using a hdd all this time with no problems. And for gaming, optane really makes your hdd as fast as a ssd, I dont want to spend anymore

[Chaos Gamer]

5 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

You are also being HEAVILY bottlenecked by the resolution you are playing at. Getting anything over a 1070 is a waste for normal 1080p usage.

actually no, i want to get 144fps 1080p always for the next 2 years, and even the 1080ti cant do that in some games right now, if the game is completely maxed out

[Chaos Gamer]

5 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

The 85° does not reduce the lifespan.

but it does reduce gpu boost auto overclocking, so do you recommend i go with the 1080ti mini even if it runs very hot?