This is the first blog post I have ever written in my life so far. Phew. Feels good. My name is Aneesh and I am a software engineer at Dell EMC. I have been "the computer guy" all my life. But ironically I never owned a personal computer in the last 5 years. I bought a used Acer Laptop for about ₹18,000 during college and retired it after graduating. Later on, after graduating, I received a dope ass laptop at work, The Lenovo Thinkpad W541. Intel i7 extreme pro, 16GB ram, Nvidia Quadro graphics in 2016? I was hella excited back then. Till a week ago I was using that for work and as a pseudo personal computer. One day (last week) I woke up and felt it was time to build my own machine for things such as gaming, programming and to train machine learning models. I am a full stack developer and a hardcore gamer. I own every PlayStation released and boast a modest collection of games. The library is a couple of years old. I wanted a machine to call mine, which I could ...