"flabbergasted" ? That's quite a strong reaction. It's somewhat normal for nerdy mc-nerdfaces, which the writer definitely is (in all the good ways), to tell people about their hardware. Or at least it used to be? Seemed pretty geek-norm to me even if it was jarring.
I chose not to write it earlier but my candid thoughts were that he seemed too old to still be doing this. Its just younger enthusiasts and professional gamers that do this, and the younger enthusiasts eventually get enough money for a mac and choose that.
The PSU is completely overkill, as if he was going to get GPU's. But then he has this completely outdated and old, power inefficient GPU in it instead, which is nothing to brag about and doubly warrants an explanation if the rig is to be explained at all. All while newer GPU's from the same company solve all of his driver and OS problems.
