I been there and done that before with 3dfx Voodoo 1 back in 1996 had lots of fun and wonderful 3D experiences with Tomb Raider, Quake and others, I did not wanted to waited a year or 2 for next generation card to have some real 3D performance. OP probably one of many people like me who don't want to wait till next generation of Turing to play some real ray tracing performance with Battlefield V RIGHT NOW.
The RTX failure rates in UK are really very low, none of UK retailers reported unusually high RTX 2070/2080/2080 Ti failures.
These Gamers Nexus and Digital Foundry videos discovered all Battlefield V ray tracing issues and bugs was probably developed over the last 2 weeks with hundreds of hours worth of 3D renderings, cuts and edits but Eurogamer got very interesting interview with DICE confirmed they fixed all ray tracing issues and bugs by now and also further ray tracing optimisations with huge performance boost that could see RTX 2080 Ti owners finally able to play Battlefield V at 4K 60 fps DXR Ultra with next upcoming patch update.
OCUK got some fantastic Black Friday deals that offer you Palit and Inno3D RTX 2080 Ti for £998.99, it really worth £944.04 after redeem Battlefield V and you can sell your GTX 1080 Ti for around £500 so in the end these Palit and Inno3D RTX 2080 Ti cost you just £444.04 = PROFIT!!!