Built this system around Black Friday/Cyber Monday. I was super looking forward to the i9 9900k. I was one of the early pre-orders, not knowing anything about the CPU. But i wanted to grab it. My last system was an i7 3770k so i stuck with Intel rather then going with Ryzen. My roommate's rig kinda turned me off to Ryzen, as he has had random issues here and there. And my last Intel computer had almost zero problems over 7 years.

I had been an Asus fanboy for years and years, so the pure thing about this build was that i wanted to roll with zero Asus gear. I have always loved the MSI Lighting GPU cards, so that was the start of the built. And with RTX 2080/2080ti had no Lighting cards to speak of, i went with the 1080Ti Lighting. And after seeing the RTX 2080ti Lighting, i am VERY happy with my end choice. And after seeing the z390 Godlike, it was a super easy choice.

The PSU was the only kind of "mistake" of the build. After looking around, i had to get a PSU that support for 2 CPU power cables. I wanted to rock Thermaltake as i loved that they had an RGB fan on it, but after looking around. The iRGB plus PSU was the only ones that had the correct addressable RGB fan, and had 2 CPU power cable support. But thanks to Black Friday, it was the same price as the 800. So i got the 1200. Knowing full well that its 100% unnecessary.