I bought a computer in January 2018. More specifically, I bought components from NewEggBusiness and assembled a computer in a mid tower case. I’ll use my new PC as a workbench for hobby programming projects, including chess, for many years.
Name
Prior to building this PC, I had built a few computers from components, always naming them HomePC. While I was building this PC, my wife, understanding every computer is assigned a name so it’s addressable on a local network, asked me, “What are you going to name it?” I replied and she expressed her disappointment, “That’s so boring.”
HomePCTheColonel
I looked at the TV, which I had turned on for background entertainment while I was assembling the PC, and saw Jack Nicholson on screen as Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men. “I’ll name it TheColonel.” I don’t know where she picked up the knowledge, but my wife knew the highly privileged inner core of a computer operating system is known as the kernel. She understand the pun and approved of the name.
Hardware
- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X CPU with 16 Cores (32 Logical Processors) @ 3.40 GHz
- Arctic Freezer 33TR CPU Heatsink + Fan
- Corsair Vengeance 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 RAM @ 2666 MHz
- Western Digital 500GB M.2 Solid State Drive
- MSI GeForce GTX 1050 2GB PCI Express 3.0 x16 Video Card
- ASRock x399 Taichi Motherboard, Not Overclocked
- EVGA SuperNOVA G2 850W Power Supply with Exhaust Fan
- Antec Three Hundred Two ATX Mid Tower Case with 2 Intake + 4 Exhaust Fans
- ASUS MG28UQ 28″ 3840 x 2160 (4K) Monitor Connected via DisplayPort to Video Card
- Logitech MX800 Wireless Backlit Keyboard + Mouse
- Microsoft Windows 10 Pro x64 Operating System
I work as a Software Architect at an insurance company. We're building a modern tech stack in the cloud using C#, Azure, ASP.NET Core, Angular, TypeScript, etc.