Motivation
I did my first build 5 years ago when the GTX 1000 series launched and I landed my first job out of college. It was an amazing experience and I was hooked. Over the years I spent time going from air cooling, AIO's and eventually did a custom cooling loop which was a ton of fun to learn. Since, I was learning on the job so to speak, there were definitely things I wished I could have done differently. Fast forward to now and I was lucky enough to grab a RTX3080 and decided it was time to go all in on a new build since I didn't think my old i7-6700 and 550w was not going to be up to the task of running a 3080 and putting out 1440p gaming at high/ultra settings so I dove in (And begged my wife for forgiveness after boxes started showing up and I told her how much it cost)


How the system will be used

• Day job: Lots of data analysis jobs that involve building tons of Python scripts hooked in to live data visualization dashboards and reports

• Side job: The extra storage on the PC doubles as a Plex media server for my house's other smart devices & security camera footage. Mining ETH whenever GPU is not being utilized for gaming

• Night job: Games & CAD for around the house projects