the kraken will not fully cover the cpu but, if you need to know how to cool the 3970X with an AIO like kraken watch this vid from JayzTwoCents : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb2ad-lp53I :)

Motherboard power delivery is definetly good enough. Kraken coolers work, although at this budget you may as well go the custom cooling loop path for best cooling. 3600MHz RAM will increase performance, but currently all of the kits are too expensive. I would say double the RAM > increasing RAM frequency by 400MHz.

this is not true xD https://www.techspot.com/review/1946-amd-threadripper-3970x-3960x/

Yes, I was thinking of the same.

Yeah, absolutely! I only chose the 3900x because the 3950x isn’t on the market in a lot of places. I was just using the most out of the budget, that’s all.

Yeah I get it.

Regarding the Titan or Quadro - no. Spending 2.5k+ on just the GPU is pointless for this use case. Those cards are meant for intense, long periods of very compute-intensive tasks, such as machine learning. That's why they have 20gb+ of VRAM. Also, as a side note, they suck for gaming. The 2080ti will probably outperform them in that regard.

You could add a second 2080ti if you really want to, but it won't increase performance by very much or at all save a few very optimized games/programs. People use 2 2080ti's more for the "street cred" than the actual benefit, lol.

I would probably not go past this.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/m789cq