Definitely not going for the 32core. The 16 cores seems like a good compromise between core count, speed and thermals.

Also, I've been watching a lot of tech shows talking about the new RTX line from NVIDIA. Almost everybody is saying there's a negligible (~10%) speed difference between a 1080 Ti and the new 2080 Ti. Most of the difference in performance comes from the new "ray tracing" technology which only functions in supported titles -- meaning I'll get basically no use out of it since all of the games I play are old and I can't see any MMO being that graphically demanding.

If the benchmarks support the speculation after launch next month I might be better off waiting a short while until the 1080 Ti prices drop and picking up 2 of them for close to the same cost of a single 2080 Ti. AMD still seems nowhere to be found on the GPU front. Vega was a huge flop.