when redditor cinam Minon posted that his soon Tobe ex-wife flight tested his
gaming PC from their third party balcony I knew I had to step in not to fix their
relationship that is way above my pay grade but rather to see if anything from
the ruined rig could be salvaged I also saw an opportunity to do a bit of
Investigation see I've seen my fair share of damaged PCS and I've also seen
my fair share of Internet sub
stories and when I saw the single picture that he posted of the aftermath
it definitely raised some questions for me you guys see this right around the
edges of the frame the case itself doesn't appear to be that mangled
compared to the damage that we're seeing inside so I think there's a possibility
that cinnam is more of a
CRI trying to capitalize on internet charity to get a new pc a ploy that is
already worked if indeed it is a ploy star Forge sent him a pretty Nic looking
system to replace this one so all that's left is to see just how much water his
story holds and to find out what if anything can be salvaged from this
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obviously my first question is why I mean clearly there are some relationship
problems or a she wouldn't be a soon Tobe exwife and B his PC would still be
in one piece but what's the specifics of
the story here well what he told us is
he approached his wife about getting a divorce and said basically that all he
wanted was the PC that was the wrong thing to say and yada yada yada PC flies
off the third floor and into the ground okay well obviously nothing's going to
go great from that height but surprisingly as I mentioned before the
case after touching some grass is in pretty good condition now he claims he
has done nothing to the PC since then other than pack it up and ship it to us
which by the way was not a simple matter DHL was not cool about shipping broken
Hardware they've seen this movie before and don't want to be involved they've
had situations in the past where people have intentionally shipped broken stuff
and then tried to come back and claim damages and get the insurance money
right okay well enough Ado let's do this
all right get it that was terrible
AA where did this come from uh Lithuania
oh Lord how much did we pay to get broken computer parts here probably too
much oh that's not a good sign the wrong
angle yeah he worked as a tech before so you can take his word for it not
scientist but you not supposed to go in there like that oh hey he wrote a little
note for us oh yeah good luck do not check the homework folder yeah yeah yeah
I I I get it I that is one thing he's
legitimately hoping to get back is some of the data that's on the drive here
which before looking at it I think is a pretty good chance your face there's all
kinds of stuff falling at the bottom here your face does not indicate
agreement not so much well honestly I
think the drive is probably okay but we'll see oh jeez maybe not I'm
feeling a little better about his story dirt was involved uh-huh I think we can
both agree it probably did get thrown off a balcony yeah I would agree with
that what it looks like happened was a lot of the impact was born right here
and went kind of straight into this vertical piece so it didn't deform as
much as if it had well a hit concrete
yeah or B hit a corner that was not as
enforced this this glass this is glass
too that's a miracle that that survived
like if it had hit this side first oh these feet are just gone gone well that
makes sense right because if it hit here and then tumbled yeah then who knows
right all bets are off the fact that the glass is still intact dude the last time
we looked at one of these systems we managed to salvage a surprising amount
of stuff from it I don't think we're going to have the same kind of luck
that's not a good bend one thing that gives me a little bit of Hope for maybe
the motherboard maybe is that it's not full-sized ATX it's matx so even though
this tray is bent the motherboard itself is not not quite that bad you know what
I'm betting that power supply is still good it's just kind of barely mangled I
think the power supply stands a chance too but I haven't looked at the other
side yet yeah we probably should no put put it
back your sure it didn't come from Italy
I don't get it
oh wow how did that cooler bend that
much it's got a lot of inertia and heat
pipes right like you can you can bend them by hand that's true six at a time
or whatever that wouldn't be easy but the number of G's that this was under
yeah it's a lot wow it broke the uh Power
connectors what oh no way
I've never seen that one before I've seen PCI slots ripped apart I've seen
actually I've never seen a card this mangled but I've seen coolers like this
I have never seen the inside of the PCIe
power connector broken I want to get
this power supply out okay the Peel's still on it oh yeah it's like new post
this on Facebook Marketplace Peel's still on yeah can you imagine how mad
she she must have been to do this I got to wonder bro there's always two sides
to every story yeah what did you do I mean maybe you did nothing maybe like
you never know you never know but maybe you were the like saint of love and
kindness in this relationship but she clearly was not into that all right
power button hit it I mean the lights turned on that's a good sign just
because the system fires up though that's true does not mean that this fan
for example will still spin within the mangled frame you can see she ain't she
ain't true anymore so we're playing some Crisis 3 here boys and I don't see that
fan moving Jordan it twitch dude I
believe you but this is totally cool still though so I don't see it mov it
doesn't need to
move smells fine wow okay oh yeah you're definitely
doing some work now I think I'm ready to call this a pass yeah that seems to be
fine I just got a power supply for the low price of what we pay 200 bucks
is all right let's see if I got anything
else let's look at the cooler here next
sure even if the cooler survived would I
really want to use it now well that's only a month old as a matter of fact
really he was having trouble I was kind of doing some deep dive on his Reddit
here and he was having trouble with heat and they recommended he get this new cooler for his CPU it may have fixed the
problem but uh he ran into some other trouble that's still good you can bend
that back should we try stick it in the vice or something or like
yeah that's not good anymore oh she's Twisted brother she's Twisted no no no
no I believe we can fix this I believe we can fix this we're going to the
workshop all right which way am I going you're lifting up
okay oh look at
that okay I mean it's getting better it's an
improvement oh buddy oh oh there we
go ah I say we put it on our bench I think
she's going to work just fine while Jordan's salvaging the brackets I
realized we left our game running so all I got to do is fire up Hardware info and
we can get a before temp with an AMD stock cooler because at the end of the
day just because it functions at all doesn't mean it's worth installing if
it's no better than the stock cooler so right now we're running at 44° with a
maximum of 48 let's see if this does any better I need some fans right well I
have this one okay she's a little unbalanced hold on maybe we can fix that
though so all we have to do is give her the
old amputation there all right if you didn't
look that close you'd think oh yeah they bent some fins when they were installing
it dude she's looking good beautiful she's looking good
that one's less beautiful you won't when she's in motion you won't even see it oh
dude I'm stoked I'm stoked on this I think I I think I got a $200 power
supply cooler bundle there you go that's pretty good maybe more maybe get some
RAM oh dude wow oh dude we're like yeah
all right we fixed the cooler we're Geniuses well I agree with you on one of
those points which one I'll leave it you to decide all
right I want to see his CPU all right oo
5600 x yep dude if I got a free 5600 x
and a power supply and a cooler this is
starting to look like a pretty good value yeah what's a 5600 x worth these
days got to be like at least 80 bucks dude dude the yeah these are worth like
70 80 bucks I'm feeling pretty good right about now should we go for RAM at
the same time let's go for RAM at the same time I think it's a pretty safe bet
nothing touched it it doesn't have a scratch on it I say this RAM Works what
do we get all right 32 gigs dude the
manufacturing date on this is October of last year this is only one year old
memory it's probably newer than ours ours is from January this year oh well
okay got them give me my odds on the motherboard
50/50 50% you saw the state of that thing that
GPU got ripped out of it brother look at
it now though man it's like it's pretty flat got it now yeah it's kind of like
uh like there's some pin damage and stuff here but it's not like it's bad
it's like seeing a dead person and they just kind of look Serene like they're sleeping you know oh no no I think we
might be done Bud oh no yeah we're screwed never mind well we're going to
try it anyway we're going to try it anyway but that's up okay CPU and RAM
confirmed good jeez I got a deal buddy
oh my goodness this screw oh wow that's really uh she's not coming out I think
she's cross threaded in the first place I think this may have been an inexpertly
assembled system that one's cross threaded the standoff came out well
there's different types of screws in every freaking hole here yeah so hold on
a second hold on a second that may have been damaged beforehand see have a look
at this this is like mangled and that
would have been an installation this actually Jordan Jordan buddy that's
me I don't think any of the traces are actually broken no way look at the hang
on glasses off glasses the glasses are coming off the some real Tech shit's
Happening Now boys the glasses are [ __ ]
off yeah those are good wow dude and
like you saw you saw how like bent and mangled it
looked it's frowning now a little not
much I've seen way worse post you know what probably saved it Jordan what
probably saved it is the corner it hit
on okay so if we look right the back
corner here there's your initial impact so if it had gone down this way
yeah it would have ripped this PCIe slot
open this way but the weight was on here but the weight was on there the weight
came down toward the board and this is
one of those metal reinforced slots which I always thought was just complete
marketing nonsense right we did see with
post Nord that did break but speaking of armored and
reinforced once again component armor comes to the
rescue I think this SSD is going to be totally fine I don't see why not because
of that heat spreader I want to I want to pop it out anyway let's have a look
at it okay she looks fine good she looks fine
she's only a 512 gig drive but hey still
I'll take it dude this might work and also even if those traces that are a
little bit mangled are dead cuz there's one that looks like it might
be broken even if they're dead Jordan
This is literally a segmented off part of the PCB that just handles onboard
sound yeah so we could still just use the audio off of our HDMI port plug into
the headphone jack on our monitor we're using a USB microphone anyway we're good
to go yeah there's no way Jordan I don't even see any lights on this is all of
his stuff except for the video card right now yes okay conductive on the
oxide code shut holy crap we got a light
shut up you have got to be fing kidding
me hold on she's off she's back on holy
crap no I know I know I think she's I think she's memory training holy [ __ ] I
think oh my goodness I cannot believe that
works no way also are you a filthy
cheater oh my what does cheat engine do
maybe it's perfectly innocent Hold On tool design to help you modify single
player games without an internet connection you can make them harder or
easier I think this might be okay give
him a pass I think this might be okay I just wasn't familiar with the tool it
didn't have a great sounding name In fairness to me I'm not going to dig any
deeper than this I'm not I don't want to see your homework folder whatever you're
using microt torent for hear me out now
it's time for the final boss how do you want to tackle this should we take the
cooler off try to straighten the cooler try to straighten the GPU and reassemble
yeah okay okay let's do it let's do it I think it's worth the try I mean
dude yeah that's nuts hold
on that's my IO plate that'll buff out
there's definitely at least this one connect oh it's okay uh well that it's
not quick grounded anymore but you know that might slide back in there hold one
oh let's see if that's a non-essential
one he sent over this handy dandy reference sheet so so just a second here
yeah we don't even need that one that's a secondary HDMI all right let's
freaking go that one doesn't even work if you use the DVI connector anyway okay
all right I don't like this severe Bend
that's a bad place for a Bend to happen right down the memory here because these
uh these BGA chips um they're soldered
down to the board and those solder joints can be quite brittle actually
here's what I'm thinking okay is we just Chuck it in the slot and I just like put
my finger on it and see if the GPU warms up okay if it does we kind of try to
bend it a little and we try and put the cooler back on okay okay is the power
supply on no okay do it it's warm but not like hot VGA
light's still on though going what the hell have you done to me I think she's
but I don't think she's going to be able to do it I think we do have to give her
a little Bend yeah the safer way to do this would be to at the very least have
the card like warmed up a little bit when we do it so it's not so brittle but
realistically we have so little to lose that I think we're just going to kind of go for it here dude if this thing fires
up I actually think I might just retire
there's no mountain left to climb anymore I could never achieve
greater okay dude that's pretty
flat whoa you're right that's not whoa dude dude that to
go man dude that's not nearly as bad that's way
better try it okay no no no no no no no I'm going to straight I'm going to
straighten this I'm going to straighten this and put it back on yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah no no that's the play
that's the play trust me trust me all right trust me bro guarantee a quality
here I do want to have this on it this time if we can what's the dealio here
though uh mainly your copper in here is bent to hell
okay this right here is exactly what makes our Precision screwdriver pretty
special because unlike other multibits they have a longer blade so you can
reach just a little bit farther into
things without hitting the uh The Wider
part of the blade there we go so
unfortunately this is a really nicely built card and this is an aluminum
shroud which means that um it's not just
going to kind of spring back into shape it doesn't have that kind of memory but
it's malleable oh man this is this will
take a little bit of doing
though hi how you doing over there good how you doing you know what how's the
video card I think what I would like to do is do a quick Testo on this before we
put the fan on before we fight with that thing yeah okay here we go at this point
no matter the outcome this is a Triumph
okay so she's off now and she's going to try again she's
not going to try again she's just off
I'm going to try again yeah yep it's almost like you shouldn't
throw your computer off of a third story balcony it's
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incredible win we got a working CPU Cooler RAM SSD
power supply pretty incredible if you guys enjoyed this video maybe go check
out the one where the guy's uh PC got damaged in shipping yeah Nord post we
also salvaged a ridiculous amount from that one considering the condition it
was in