This PC is designed to do all of the things I would ever use a PC for (except lower my power bill). I have designed this PC to be multipurpose between gaming, programming, studying, and browsing. This PC has enough power to run some of the most powerful simulated networks on GNS3, play any game on 4K resolution and ultra-high quality, and whatever else I could think of doing. I have not limited myself to a budget on this, to make it as high power as possible.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 4.2 GHz 16-Core Processor - $850.00
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken RGB 360mm Liquid CPU Cooler - $219.99
Motherboard: GIGABYTE X870E AORUS ELITE - $309.99
RAM: 2x Crucial Pro 128GB (2 x 64GB) DDR5-5600 PC5-44800 - $645.98 ($322.99/unit)
Graphics Card: NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4090 Founders Edition 24GB GDDR6X - $4699.00
Power Supply: Be quiet! Dark Power 13 1000W - $289.90
Case: NZXT H9 Flow - $149.99
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 64-Bit - $159.98
Storage
Storage #1: 2x Seagate Exos X20 20TB 7200 RPM 3.5” HDD - $759.98 (379.99/unit)
Storage #2: WD_BLACK 8TB NVMe SSD - $629.99
Peripherals
Webcam: Logitech Brio 500 Full HD - $129.00
UPS: CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD - $219.95
Mouse: Logitech MX Master 2S - $69.99
Keyboard: Logitech G613 LIGHTSPEED Wireless - $164.99
Monitor: SAMSUNG 34" Odyssey G85SB - $1199.99
While thinking about the lessons learned after doing this assignment, I spent a long time drawing a blank. I have been building computers since I was 12 years old and have been working on them for even longer. I realized that the lessons that I learned from this were not exactly technical. In this lesson, I learned more about how to properly structure a word document to be organized and communicative while I normally struggle with organization and communication in day-to-day documents and assignments. I also learned that I could have more fun than I thought when doing a technical assignment, when I usually look at technical class assignments as rigid and purely technical. The top thing I learned is how to engage in an assignment and think outside of the lines I drew when initially reading the instructions.