oh my god is this the graphics card his heartbreaking story is one of loss
betrayal and pain this is just sad oh my
gosh this was a 2070 super in a previous
life earlier this week spencer aka neverlucky
chozo great username by the way posted this absolutely
gut-wrenching photo on reddit his heartbreaking story is one of loss
betrayal and pain you see
this was no ordinary computer you guys
this was his gaming rig his other child
what once glowed and hummed in the night is now charred
and silent to that
i say no his pc will rise like the phoenix we are
stepping in to write this gross injustice and all you have to do is
prove that your story isn't a bunch of internet [ __ ]
so we offered spencer a trade
his pc for our pc and all i need to know
is if what's in here matches
what he posted on reddit
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oh that is depressing
now anyone can get 70 000 upvotes with a good enough story reddit's full of
tearjerker posts from attention seekers that turn out upon further investigation
to be tall tales and we weren't going to build a brand new gaming pc and send it
to one of those people we needed proof
which is exactly why we had spencer pack up his machine and send it over to us
our poor pcmr brother here so the components lost
in the blaze include an AMD ryzen 5 3600x
a Noctua nhu 12s of which as far as i
can tell basically nothing remains
an MSI b450 tomahawk motherboard we've
got the io shield from that puppy i mean should we try
let's try and find pieces of each one as we go i mean this
seems to be oh my god is this the graphics card oh
what was this 2070 super this was a 2070
super in a previous life Gigabyte GeForce rtx 2070 super oh i think i
found the CPU yep so here's the pads where the pins used
to be soldered on the bottom and we've verified spencer's story this was in
fact a chiplet design ryzen processor you can tell from the multiple spots
where die components were attached there
it had a two terabyte crucial bx 500 um
i don't see anything resembling an SSD in here but everything checks out so far
so this is just this is just sad
even the things you'd think would remain relatively unscathed i mean right like
metal doesn't burn in a wood fire right oh sure it does like this case is i
don't know colin like we had intended to kind of try to hot glue it back together
to resemble its original form but i don't know dude
yeah i mean there's a chance
okay so there's your power supply got a 500 watt
evga something or other oh i found another piece of the graphics card
oh are those cables there's the display
port and HDMI ports from the inside
here's the mount for the water cooler so this would go kind of here-ish huh
yeah there you go found our hard drive
got some got some data if you sent that to drive
savers they'd pull the data off it i bet if i sent it to drive savers they'd tell
me to go f myself no those platters are dead they're dead jim okay i'm gonna
install the hard drive in the front bay there yeah oh hold on i gotta
look the graphics card's one of the most important parts of the gaming computer
CPU you need a support brace for it i got a little bent and shipping up there
yeah okay mint
basically good as new of course even now this could be any random burned computer
in fact spencer here could have just gone to a you know pawn shop got in a
computer and put it inside a dumpster fire so what we need to see is if this
is in fact the same computer so let's have a look
here this is the original post on reddit oh yeah there's our HDMI cable
okay there's our here's our i o plate that does in fact appear to be the same
i o plate oh wow looks like the graphics card disintegrated a little bit more on
the way over here but so far this checks out the goal here wasn't to go all
completely balls to the wall crazy it was to build something reasonable and
comparable to what spencer lost in the blaze you know a sort of pcmr
insurance so we've gone with an ASUS prime b450 plus motherboard and a
perfect one-to-one replacement of spencer's old CPU a 3600 x now what
happened to our uh 3600x from the shipment colin did you catch where that
oh where did i put it back uh yeah oh do you install it in the socket yeah oh
that's wonderful oh beautiful okay we've got small improvement we're gonna
go from this to this oh getting dust all over my motherboard i guess i need a
m.2 so for drive we went with a 970 evo plus
this is a two terabyte drive wow did spencer have a two terabyte drive sure
did spencer you baller
now you got a new two terabyte track let's go ahead and get that bad boy
installed now it's time for cooling now we could
have gone with a regular nhu 12 but
come on the LTT pc we got to do the LTT edition man i'm
excited i'd love to see the look on spencer's face but but thanks to a
little problem in the world called covid i won't get to
fortunately we've actually arranged for one of our youtuber
colleagues i guess he called calling whatever compatriots
craft computing to drop off the pc as it
turns out he lives like just up the road from spencer and had actually reached
out first to offer to build a computer but then he was like yo spencer take the
LTT computer and i'll tell you what i'll make sure it's any good before i
pass it along to you and i was like hey you know that's great last thing we want
to do is accidentally ship spencer a lemon because it got you know busted in
the mail or whatever poor spencer then he wouldn't have his old busted computer
and he'd have a new business computer that sucks that's funny i didn't even
recognize Noctua's mounting system without a knock to a cooler on it should
we reuse his original mounting hardware i think it might still be good
just to have one little piece of his old computer in there you know what let's do
it let's use the let's use the fire treated brackets i think this is the
right move and you know what it actually even kind of matches the
color scheme of this board like with these gray uh these gray
accents that it has on it we've got some patriot viper what is this 3200
megahertz cl 16. so this is a really good pairing for that 3600x that he's
got in there looking good unfortunately for spencer
we didn't have exactly the same case kicking around so
we grabbed this tempered glass side panel one from Gigabyte it's
fine everything's going smoothly so far this is kind of a cheaper case and just
uses like punch out pci covers so we went and grabbed some
that we had lying around all matching ones we'll throw those in
so the case comes together a little nicer we're also going to grab some extra fans just a pair of 140
millimeters for the front here there's not a ton of room for intake but with
those drawing air across the motherboard and graphics card not too worried about
it and we can go ahead and pop our motherboard in now sweet
for power supply we went with an rm 650x it's not quite the exact same model that
spencer had before but it's pretty darn comparable 80 plus gold
modular interface apologies in advanced craft computing this is not going to be
the most amazing cable management ever we got ourselves an aorus rtx 2070 super
oh wait no we didn't 2080 super hey
got a nice little upgrade for spencer there we would have loved to do 3000
series but the reality of it is we have as much difficulty getting them
right now as anyone so the ones that we have we need for benchmarking sorry
spencer you're just getting a small upgrade we just needed a BIOS update for
support for third gen ryzen and now we
are wait what all right i hit the butt
now spencer didn't have a 4k monitor and the one we're replacing it with isn't 4k
either but i figured hey we want to make sure we're stress testing this thing
before it gets to him so he's going to be getting that lg ultra gear monitor
but we're actually running at 4k ultra nightmare and do maternal sitting at a
casual 250 to 300 frames per second i think
it's pretty fair to say the machine is working fine just fine and is ready to
make its way down to our neighbors in the south
very reasonable noise levels and actually considering how quickly i put
this together i think pretty decent cable management
adequate yeah all right thanks david
that's what i was going for yeah so this is not the best deal i've ever made
trading one of these for one of these but i think it worked out all right for
spencer and if you guys want to see the look on his face when he gets his new
gaming rig go check out craft computing we're going to have them linked in the
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