Yes, the mobo was a birthday present. I was supposed to get it at work Friday as a surprise but I left early and she had to reschedule to Monday. We got into it a bit Friday night and under compulsion she splurged what she got.
Anywho, it's a Phantom Gaming X X570.
Yes it replaces my current rig.
I know for a fact it'll be slower than my current stuff but I'm tired of needing fans at 60% and 2 dual 80mm 360 rads to keep a 5GHz Skycrap chip cool. I'll be doing comparisons between the two before I tear it down. (Not to mention the power it sucks as my electric bills are killing me, I decommissioned my big server too as it was IDLING at 300W). The missus will get the old gear and half of her reasoning for my upgrade is she wanted my old stuff and is excited to learn how to assemble a PC. This is a far cry from her arguing how Alienware is so much better 2 years ago, pun intended.
I highly expect that in a year or less the Mac goes and you have another PC
I forgot to post Friday that I bought a subwoofer and the cabling to go with it for my car. I didn't think she was going to get it for me because she said she would on the 7th for my birthday but I mean $400 on a doing ok but still kinda rocky relationship on her salary? She did though. So because of that I couldn't get the 3800x instead. I'll just do the 200MHz OC and save 70 bucks.
Edit: Also what are you doing with the 2080ti?