Building a new Gaming PC!
- Thread starter The Predaking
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So I have some sad news.
This past Saturday we had a really bad thunderstorm and my house was hit by lightning. I actually saw the lightning come out of the outlets when it hit. I am extremely grateful that no one was hurt when it hit. Unfortunately, it fried everything in my livingroom, a GCFI outlet in the garage, and this PC in my office.
The poor thing was barely used. I used it for taxes, some game development, and a little PC gaming, but not nearly enough to get my moneys worth of it. I am going to add up everythign and see if I got over the $3700 deductible I have, but this still sucks. Just to replace the parts on this PC these days runs $2476.44 plus tax and shipping.
This past Saturday we had a really bad thunderstorm and my house was hit by lightning. I actually saw the lightning come out of the outlets when it hit. I am extremely grateful that no one was hurt when it hit. Unfortunately, it fried everything in my livingroom, a GCFI outlet in the garage, and this PC in my office.
The poor thing was barely used. I used it for taxes, some game development, and a little PC gaming, but not nearly enough to get my moneys worth of it. I am going to add up everythign and see if I got over the $3700 deductible I have, but this still sucks. Just to replace the parts on this PC these days runs $2476.44 plus tax and shipping.
It powers on, the fans come on, but it doesn't run the post test.
I would still take it to a pro and see if anything can be saved.
Might be a ram problem: pop the sticks and test the slots one at a time.
Well, I can try to get it looked at, but there are so many things that could be broken. It might just get more expensive to do a full repair. The PC is also only one of the things that got fried in the storm, so I just filed a claim for it. We will see what that brings.
Things lost to the storm and the replacement costs for it all:
Things lost to the storm and the replacement costs for it all:
| PC | |
| Motherboard | $89.99 |
| SSD | $414.99 |
| CPU | $208.99 |
| RAM | $399.99 |
| Case | $252.38 |
| power supply | $260.00 |
| Graphics Card | $699.99 |
| Windows 11 Home USB | $150.11 |
| AVR | $999.00 |
| 4 GB External Hard drive | $187.00 |
| UHD Bluray player | $369.99 |
| 55" Vizio 4K TV | $434.33 |
| cable modem | $59.94 |
| Router | $59.99 |
| xbox one | $163.52 |
| GCFI Outlet | $22 |
| Switch Dock Animal Crossing | $40 |
| Apple TV | $210.39 |
| Total: | 5022.6 |
Best of luck my friend. Insurance is a bitch at the best of times.
Thanks! Hopefully it won't be too bad.
I assume the insurance company will only cover your claim if you replace the entire computer with another one made from the exact same parts? Because there are definitely a few places you could cut corners if you had the freedom to; that 1000W power supply was overkill for example and, again, is the very first thing you should be replacing before writing everything else off as dead. Followed by the motherboard or maybe the CPU. I've heard that the RAM crisis has actually made parts that are not RAM or SSDs cheaper because so few people are bothering to build new rigs now, meaning they're not buying any of the other parts either, meaning sellers are getting desperate. I've particularly gotten ads in my NewEgg junkmail for some dirt-cheap power supplies.
One other thing that would help is having another working computer on hand to use as a testbed for each of the parts. You know, take one part out of yours, pop it in the other one, see if it works, repeat. Maybe you know someone personally who could help out there? (I'm just now realizing that for the first time in a long time, my current desktop is too advanced to do this with any of my others, and now I'm concerned.)
One other thing that would help is having another working computer on hand to use as a testbed for each of the parts. You know, take one part out of yours, pop it in the other one, see if it works, repeat. Maybe you know someone personally who could help out there? (I'm just now realizing that for the first time in a long time, my current desktop is too advanced to do this with any of my others, and now I'm concerned.)
Yeah, depending on how much storage/RAM you need to replace, might want to add a couple hundred to EACH of those lines...