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oh my god is this the graphics card his heartbreaking story is one of loss

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betrayal and pain this is just sad oh my

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gosh this was a 2070 super in a previous

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life earlier this week spencer aka neverlucky

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chozo great username by the way posted this absolutely

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gut-wrenching photo on reddit his heartbreaking story is one of loss

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betrayal and pain you see

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this was no ordinary computer you guys

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this was his gaming rig his other child

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what once glowed and hummed in the night is now charred

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and silent to that

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i say no his pc will rise like the phoenix we are

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stepping in to write this gross injustice and all you have to do is

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prove that your story isn't a bunch of internet [ __ ]

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so we offered spencer a trade

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his pc for our pc and all i need to know

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is if what's in here matches

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what he posted on reddit

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oh that is depressing

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now anyone can get 70 000 upvotes with a good enough story reddit's full of

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tearjerker posts from attention seekers that turn out upon further investigation

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to be tall tales and we weren't going to build a brand new gaming pc and send it

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to one of those people we needed proof

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which is exactly why we had spencer pack up his machine and send it over to us

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our poor pcmr brother here so the components lost

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in the blaze include an AMD ryzen 5 3600x

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a Noctua nhu 12s of which as far as i

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can tell basically nothing remains

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an MSI b450 tomahawk motherboard we've

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got the io shield from that puppy i mean should we try

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let's try and find pieces of each one as we go i mean this

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seems to be oh my god is this the graphics card oh

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what was this 2070 super this was a 2070

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super in a previous life Gigabyte GeForce rtx 2070 super oh i think i

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found the CPU yep so here's the pads where the pins used

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to be soldered on the bottom and we've verified spencer's story this was in

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fact a chiplet design ryzen processor you can tell from the multiple spots

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where die components were attached there

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it had a two terabyte crucial bx 500 um

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i don't see anything resembling an SSD in here but everything checks out so far

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so this is just this is just sad

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even the things you'd think would remain relatively unscathed i mean right like

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metal doesn't burn in a wood fire right oh sure it does like this case is i

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don't know colin like we had intended to kind of try to hot glue it back together

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to resemble its original form but i don't know dude

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yeah i mean there's a chance

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okay so there's your power supply got a 500 watt

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evga something or other oh i found another piece of the graphics card

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oh are those cables there's the display

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port and HDMI ports from the inside

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here's the mount for the water cooler so this would go kind of here-ish huh

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yeah there you go found our hard drive

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got some got some data if you sent that to drive

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savers they'd pull the data off it i bet if i sent it to drive savers they'd tell

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me to go f myself no those platters are dead they're dead jim okay i'm gonna

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install the hard drive in the front bay there yeah oh hold on i gotta

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look the graphics card's one of the most important parts of the gaming computer

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CPU you need a support brace for it i got a little bent and shipping up there

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yeah okay mint

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basically good as new of course even now this could be any random burned computer

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in fact spencer here could have just gone to a you know pawn shop got in a

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computer and put it inside a dumpster fire so what we need to see is if this

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is in fact the same computer so let's have a look

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here this is the original post on reddit oh yeah there's our HDMI cable

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okay there's our here's our i o plate that does in fact appear to be the same

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i o plate oh wow looks like the graphics card disintegrated a little bit more on

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the way over here but so far this checks out the goal here wasn't to go all

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completely balls to the wall crazy it was to build something reasonable and

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comparable to what spencer lost in the blaze you know a sort of pcmr

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insurance so we've gone with an ASUS prime b450 plus motherboard and a

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perfect one-to-one replacement of spencer's old CPU a 3600 x now what

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happened to our uh 3600x from the shipment colin did you catch where that

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oh where did i put it back uh yeah oh do you install it in the socket yeah oh

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that's wonderful oh beautiful okay we've got small improvement we're gonna

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go from this to this oh getting dust all over my motherboard i guess i need a

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m.2 so for drive we went with a 970 evo plus

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this is a two terabyte drive wow did spencer have a two terabyte drive sure

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did spencer you baller

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now you got a new two terabyte track let's go ahead and get that bad boy

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installed now it's time for cooling now we could

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have gone with a regular nhu 12 but

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come on the LTT pc we got to do the LTT edition man i'm

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excited i'd love to see the look on spencer's face but but thanks to a

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little problem in the world called covid i won't get to

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fortunately we've actually arranged for one of our youtuber

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colleagues i guess he called calling whatever compatriots

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craft computing to drop off the pc as it

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turns out he lives like just up the road from spencer and had actually reached

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out first to offer to build a computer but then he was like yo spencer take the

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LTT computer and i'll tell you what i'll make sure it's any good before i

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pass it along to you and i was like hey you know that's great last thing we want

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to do is accidentally ship spencer a lemon because it got you know busted in

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the mail or whatever poor spencer then he wouldn't have his old busted computer

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and he'd have a new business computer that sucks that's funny i didn't even

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recognize Noctua's mounting system without a knock to a cooler on it should

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we reuse his original mounting hardware i think it might still be good

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just to have one little piece of his old computer in there you know what let's do

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it let's use the let's use the fire treated brackets i think this is the

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right move and you know what it actually even kind of matches the

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color scheme of this board like with these gray uh these gray

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accents that it has on it we've got some patriot viper what is this 3200

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megahertz cl 16. so this is a really good pairing for that 3600x that he's

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got in there looking good unfortunately for spencer

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we didn't have exactly the same case kicking around so

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we grabbed this tempered glass side panel one from Gigabyte it's

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fine everything's going smoothly so far this is kind of a cheaper case and just

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uses like punch out pci covers so we went and grabbed some

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that we had lying around all matching ones we'll throw those in

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so the case comes together a little nicer we're also going to grab some extra fans just a pair of 140

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millimeters for the front here there's not a ton of room for intake but with

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those drawing air across the motherboard and graphics card not too worried about

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it and we can go ahead and pop our motherboard in now sweet

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for power supply we went with an rm 650x it's not quite the exact same model that

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spencer had before but it's pretty darn comparable 80 plus gold

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modular interface apologies in advanced craft computing this is not going to be

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the most amazing cable management ever we got ourselves an aorus rtx 2070 super

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oh wait no we didn't 2080 super hey

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got a nice little upgrade for spencer there we would have loved to do 3000

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series but the reality of it is we have as much difficulty getting them

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right now as anyone so the ones that we have we need for benchmarking sorry

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spencer you're just getting a small upgrade we just needed a BIOS update for

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support for third gen ryzen and now we

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are wait what all right i hit the butt

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now spencer didn't have a 4k monitor and the one we're replacing it with isn't 4k

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either but i figured hey we want to make sure we're stress testing this thing

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before it gets to him so he's going to be getting that lg ultra gear monitor

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but we're actually running at 4k ultra nightmare and do maternal sitting at a

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casual 250 to 300 frames per second i think

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it's pretty fair to say the machine is working fine just fine and is ready to

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make its way down to our neighbors in the south

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very reasonable noise levels and actually considering how quickly i put

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this together i think pretty decent cable management

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adequate yeah all right thanks david

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that's what i was going for yeah so this is not the best deal i've ever made

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trading one of these for one of these but i think it worked out all right for

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spencer and if you guys want to see the look on his face when he gets his new

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know sure go check out rog rig reboot we'll throw one of the episodes in there

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