oh that's not going to buff out oh no
that survived imagine unboxing your
brand new gaming PC and seeing this now
imagine that you are Swedish redditor supers Nova and you didn't imagine it
that's right he ordered a new system from Shark gaming a Danish custom PC
Builder who shipped it via postnord to his local post office when he picked it
up he noticed some damage to the outer box so he snapped a couple of pictures
but he couldn't possibly have imagined the shocking state of the PC inside now
at this point it would be easy to blame the carrier and there were plenty of
negative anecdotes about post Nord in the comments but that's true of every
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at least they managed to keep it dry sup Nova reboxed it up for us to try and get
it here in one piece this time oh we've got a little note hello LT and Jake I
hope this leaning tower of PC brings you much joy and content all my best /u/
super NOA it will this appears to be a
piece of the original case packing foam that explains a lot couriers provide
guidance for how thick the packing material should be depending on the
weight of the object inside and this was
clearly designed for an empty case not
for a fully built out system with a modern GPU in it they used the cheap
stiff kind of foam that is good for one un exactly one impact any further
impacts and it's completely destroyed fun fact that's exactly why you should
replace your bike helmet after an accident even if there's no visible damage
you're going to dump it I mean realistically what more could I do to it
at this point with that said all of these
replacement parts are coming out of pocket for me so the more things I can
salvage from this the better oh Jesus what more could I do to
it at this point oh my goodness oh oh
that's hard to look at according to supers Nova this is exactly how he
received it he didn't even take the plastic off it which is good because if
he had it might have fallen apart even
more now working at NC I have seen some
stuff I've seen coolers torn off their sockets and gpus ripped out of PCIe
slots this system though is unlike anything I've ever seen it looks like it
was driven over I was all ready to go to the defense of the Courier here and say
you know what shark gaming didn't pack this case adequately and they may not
have but this should not happen under
any circumstances oh wow the radiator's
not even attached to the front anymore the tempered glass side panel
survived shout out tempered
glass to shark Gaming's credit while I don't approve of the lack of outer box
on the system this is probably how I would pack the inside of a PC to keep
the GPU safe in transit other strategies include the acrylic braces that Puget
Cuts or supports that are built in into the case like you'll see with the tier
ones but this is not an invalid solution to its credit
too I think this GPU may have
oh that slot is chewed up oh look at the
power pins here not good maybe the motherboard
survived oh it didn't why did I
volunteer to fix this without even looking at the pictures you know what
you might actually be right those pins are still in place I'm willing to bet
that the RAM and the SSD are both fine and this radiator might be
o why are these pins bent what was
banging around inside this case at least they used a water cooler if this had a
big heat sink on it let me tell you I've seen what happens when those come loose
and bang around inside I feel like the rigidity of the motherboard is what kept
this piece from getting bent to shark Gaming's credit they did a pretty okay
job of the cable management never seen one of their systems before so this is
quite the first impression show me how bad you are okay all right scale of 1 to
10 how happy is this motherboard going to be not that bent this this side's
oh this side was pretty okay the other
side not so much while the CPU might be
okay I'm not really sure about this SSD anymore something whacked it hard and
might have even knocked some components off I thought the SS was going to be a
safe bet that's the thing right I've
seen crazy stuff happen where the outer carton looks totally fine and then you
open it up and it's like how did anything hit that okay you ever watch
slow-mo guys just because something looks like that to the naked eye doesn't
mean that this plastic didn't go
like right something hit that somehow oh
that system fan though no I have a fix for this
I mean these are kind of optional anyway what are my Vegas odds that this thing
posts okay I will bet you $1 that it
works walked into that one I'm trying the motherboard first a 12-year-old AMD
engineering sample with a heat sink as bent as that motherboard let's go we're
going very basic here uh oh actually
yeah we should definitely have a fire extinguisher handy for when I try the power supply I've made it very clear I
expect my death to be monetized if we catch it on camera uh okay so that um is
a thing that is happening right now oh yeah fire extinguisher good like for
real this thing could be on fire very shortly yeah I shoot over here yeah yeah
yeah you got a long lens right okay we
ready no indicator lights uh yeah eight
pin four pin they're plugged in I don't think anything's going to happen here
guys
holy crap you have got to be kidding me
holy crap the CPU has power I need
something hold on I just I just need to see if it
posts y
holy not only did the motherboard
survive that mangled PCI slot survived
are you kidding me right now let's check
the SSD check this out
oh before we do that though we need a way to cool the CPU so why not see if
the original cooler survived I mean the fan didn't oh I mean it might
spin most of these screws are salvageable that's the goal I want to
reuse as many of the components as we can I'm going to bet this cooler is
still good what are my odds no no you're the you're the Vegas
odds man yeah you're the odds guy 5 to one 5 to one yeah the cooler look what I
wouldn't expect man I wish I'd bet someone on that motherboard okay well
there's a big difference between still working and possible to attach to
anything CPU fan one a pump fan here we
go unreal CPU RAM
motherboard I don't know about this cooler though can I bend it back maybe
holy crap 32 gigs RAM
let's get that SSD pretty sure you lost a capacitor or two off the SSD I think
you're right even though there are blank pads on the other side this one here and
this one here look like something was ripped off them oh now I'm almost afraid
to plug this in in case we end up ruining a perfectly good motherboard I
am so stoked that this works freaking
amazing and that is one dead
SSD hey we're still doing pretty well
that's fine we've got a new SSD right oh
right I don't want to be killing this motherboard now in the meantime we've
got a nice little upgrade for you a 2 TB rocket NVMe 4 this is not only faster
than the drive you had but it's double the capacity man this is the most fun
I've had trouble shooting something in quite a while you never know what's going to happen anything is possible
right now this motherboard worked next you're going to tell me the GPU Works
see you later SSD there we go
unbelievable I'm going to go get the GPU or should we do the power supply first
you guys want to see some fireworks I've never heard of this power supply brand
before but they've got a great slogan yours did Buddy oh wait this is
fsp I know fsp I just never seen that
slogan from them before just got to work at an angle here the kind of force
required to do this to this power supply like this isn't human you couldn't drop
kick this kind of damage into it Ione got any jaws of life
handy sorry I probably should be wearing
gloves yeah next best thing tin snips
let's go that's kind of like gloves yeah yeah well I meant for draws of life not
gloves oh do we have a hammer ah we
do okay
yeah hey look at that can't get this eight
pin out of the cable management hole she's sealed up
tight this is why they call me the PC saw
bones I just realized how much I'm
smiling that may not be as as bad as it
sounds I think it's just plastic from the fan because if you look the PCB for
this power supply is all along the bottom which is still Square now it's
possible that just from the sheer vibration of whatever this went through
there were Parts shaken free from the PCB and that could be what we're hearing
at some point I think there was a crazy person I prefer the term eccentric I
think the plastic came from here oh yeah look I knocked a another piece
off thanks so nice that you guys care
about still having somewhere to work on one day can you claim EI if like your
boss dies like yeah I work for a YouTuber and he
dead look at this this screw got driven
right through the shroud of the power supply I'm about to do something I would
never recommend for the first time yes for the everything else I did safe all
right is nice is nice oh it's not so nice
however this supports my theory that the things clanking around inside the power
supply were just plastic things even this heat sink here I thought it was
bent but I just didn't look closely and it's one of those offset ones that's
bent like that I don't think the actual working components of this power supply
took any bruises this is
unbelievable I think I might have been better off but I'm fine you know what it
might be loosened enough that I can give her with this guy now oh yeah oh that's
a Bend uh hey do we have um we have
soldering stuff here yeah we do now I can hear what you guys are thinking
really lonus you're going to stick him with this power
supply of course not I'm going to
upgrade it first now it has an RGB
fan okay I'll use a heat gun then for
good measure I'm just going to give them a little bit of electrical tape
okay that's on
there a this uses Alpha Cool's stupid
RGB connector you're getting upgraded to a clear plastic fan Moment
of Truth she spins that was a fairly
small Moment of Truth the moment of big truth is still coming still lines up no
don't look too closely at that but all four screws are in the unit is
self-contained and the fan spins well
it's capable of spinning there's nothing jammed in it I don't know that it will
spin we still have that fire extinguisher hey yep if this works you
have to buy the new windbreaker from LTT Store.com okay I deserve
it so now you don't have to buy the windbreaker you get to wait did it turn
on oh right it didn't make noise that makes
sense oh oh
yeah GPU I'm
shaking I'm like so excited right
now that doesn't mean anything yet not
getting too excited yet but the RGB did
illuminate uh no the the screen did
something no no way
what are you kidding me are you kidding
me all we lost was the SSD the
SSD how did the GPU survive and not the
F flipping SSD how did anything working emerge from
this now we got to figure out what to do the whole shtick for this video was
going to be hey we replaced your computer but it's fine do we use the
original glass panel Absol absolutely this is a brand new H5 flow from NZXT
but other than that the goal is to use as many of the original components as we
possibly can I mean this has got
fingerprints on it that sucks this tells
a story after visually inspecting the motherboard and giving it a little Bend
back I see no reason whatsoever why we couldn't still use this what a
mindblowing experience you know what I'm not going to commit to using this cooler
until I see if the radiator mounts we're going to need new fans though do we have
replacement fans something really nice oh no way we can salvage fans put them
onto their souvenir I don't think these are particularly pressure optimized fans
though well no they're not great yeah I'd really rather use something better
wait hold on a second this uses different fans than that one that may be
a problem I'm going to see if we can use the squareness and rigidity of the fan
to force the radiator back into a proper shape I have my doubts
now okay um
yeah mhm where'd that hammer
go see the problem is not what an evil man like me is doing it's that you're
all standing here and doing nothing about
it do you think standing um cuz you need that like
you need to deform it past in order to get it into position I tried I tried
like pressing on it and stuff it's also I can't hit it hard I can't push hard
enough on it with all my weight it's not it's just not enough the water tubes are
made out of copper which is a very malleable metal and then the tanks are
made of brass which is a little less malleable that's good because it means
that we can whack the brass tanks and
they shouldn't deform too much and then the copper should deform and we should
be able to reshape it I think I mean you know obviously making all this up as I
go is that water that's sing out what just
kidding here's what we're going to do to
replace the fan I accidentally broke I'm
going to pull this one out of here oh how the devil does this come out came
out so easily from the other case ah gorgeous replacement fan then
we'll replace this with something a little better limited edition LT noctu a
fan it won't match but boy will they'll ever be a story there this is still
quite not
flat most of these are going in okay but we've definitely got a problem in the
bottom right down here oh oh actually oh
I've got it okay give it the old put the
thing in the thing did you get it don't forget it has
a ratchet LTD store.com did you turny to ratchet off dang it Jordan would you
ever know that that wasn't perfect from the factory now that I have covered it up
yes yes my bigger concern here is that
these aren't particularly static pressure optimized fans but it's a 5800
X we're not going to be limited by how much heat we can move away from the radiator and to maintain the Integrity
of the build I wanted to use as many original components as possible other
than that F uhhuh oh it's not that bad I
mean these are a these are cutting self Hazard at the best of times and because
of the Shroud in the bottom of the case you would never know that the power
supply looks like this is what I would say if I didn't consider it hazardous to
ship this back to him so instead supers
Nova is getting a little power supply upgrade with an ASUS Rog stxs 850 watt
it's modular it's more efficient and it's white matches the case oh I see the
problem I'm not a huge fan of the way these PCIe
cables come over here but honestly I don't have a better solution right now
and the more important thing is
that it works we only had to replace two
parts three counting that fan that I broke SSD power supply which we didn't
even need to replace and one fan which
means that given sup Nova was expecting
some upgraded components I guess it'll just be a cash
reward I'm not taking off the outer peel just the inner one now obviously after
what this thing's been through it's not enough for us to run do maternal for a
couple minutes and say oh yeah I don't know I guess that seems fine we're going
to be putting this through a full stress test running it for at least a couple of
days in the environmental chamber to make sure that it's good to go but I see
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if you guys enjoyed this video you might also enjoy the guide that we did on how
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