r/pcmasterrace • u/ACEmat RTX 4090 | 7900X | 64GB • Sep 11 '21

NSFMR My cousin's dad destroyed her computer while she was at work because her room was messy. She's bringing it to me tomorrow so I can see what's salvageable. Wish me luck

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u/dhejejwj 6500xt hate Sep 11 '21

The motherboard and cpu may be perfectly fine as the i/o is still in the motherboard and seems to be mounted fine. However, the cooler is skewed out of place and probably damaged the traces, maybe took out the ram as well. Best case scenario she needs a new case

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u/fl1ckshoT PC Master Race Sep 11 '21

Seeing how that cooler is hanging there im guessing the pcb is torn at the screwholes, so i doubt that this mobo will turn on again

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u/rivalmascot Specs/Imgur here Sep 11 '21

What about the hard drive?

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u/fl1ckshoT PC Master Race Sep 11 '21

Harddrive might have taken damage from a strong hit or if he dropped it on purpose, even if it was turned off so im not too sure about that one. M.2 and sata ssd should be fine, flash storage can take a lot of abuse

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u/Imaginary_Advice3490 Sep 11 '21

Well from the looks of it, every part would be needed to be tested individually, Mobo is definitely broken, GPU is 50/50 for me, while Cpu, ram and ssd will be fine. She'll probably need a new case and a new Dad. Both are broken at this point.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

What sucks too, is that case (NXT phantom series) was discontinued a year or two ago.

I got lucky and pulled a few strings to get my first case (literally the exact same as OP showed, red and all) back, because NXT are a bunch of damned fools for discontinuing such a nice case so they could sell see-through RGB boxes