There are three main things I use my PC for: gaming, video editing, and 3D modeling/rendering. My maxed-out mini PCs have always been great for the first two—modern gaming CPUs don’t need a ton of cores, and Resolve leans super hard on the GPU—so my 9800X3D + 5090 setup was basically maxing out my day-to-day workflow. The one area where I kept hitting limits was Blender rendering, especially on stuff like the Zero Mouse renders, and I was honestly itching to build a ridiculous, overkill midtower again. So I built the most power-hungry and expensive PC I’ve ever put together: Threadripper 9980X, 128GB DDR5-6400, and two RTX 5090s. I ran into a classic “this should fit but doesn’t” moment with the Phanteks Evolv S2 because it technically doesn’t support EATX, so I Dremeled the shroud and made it work. Performance-wise, it’s genuinely mindbending: Cinebench multi-thread is about 5.5x faster than my mini PC, Blender frame renders at 4K are over 2x faster, and Fusion 360 CPU rendering goes from “avoid it” to basically real-time. The catch is power and thermals—this thing can pull over 2,000W at the wall in Blender, and the top 5090 gets cooked in multi-GPU workloads—so the next step is pretty obvious: full liquid cooling, because a workstation has to be bulletproof.