I plan to either rebuild or replace my gaming PC either later this spring or summer after finishing graduate school. I may hold off to see what the story may be with AMD's Ryzen 3000 CPU series, but currently I am leaning toward Intel for a replacement CPU. My current PC set up uses an Intel i5-7600K CPU and an Asus variant of the Nvidia GTX 970. I am not certain on which CPU I may get if I go with Intel. I am considering either the I9-9900K or I7-9700K as candidates. I am also uncertain if I will go with either an Nvidia RTX 2080 or 2080 Ti. I do know that in terms of gaming resolution I will purchase a G-Sync capable gaming monitor with either 1080p or 1440p resolution since I am hearing that the gaming experience at 4K has not entirely reached acceptable levels. A secondary task that I will likely perform on the PC will be basic drone video editing such as combining video clips and adding music and basic animation like texts and titles. I do not overclock and do not believe in the futureproof myth, but my intention is to build a gaming PC that is capable of handling high and/or max game settings for 3 to 4 years with an upgrade of the GPU and, if necessary, memory at either the 18 month or 2 year mark. Right now I understand that the current I7 and I9 core count is 8 and that Intel is potentially going to release 10-core CPUs by the end of the year. Based on your experiences with previous generations of Intel processors, will the I7-9700K or I9-9900K be capable of handling the tasks that I mentioned and will they be powerful enough to handle the demands of newer GPUs such as the successors to the current RTX cards (e.g. RTX 3080 or 3080 Ti) or could I potentially face a CPU bottleneck issue due to using an 8-core CPU instead of a 10-core CPU?
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