He didn't just get a cheap used motherboard, but several free functional NVMe SSDs that would have cost him over $1700.
Redditor Receives 2x 4 TB, 2x TB NVMe SSDs with a $50 Used Z690 Motherboard; One SSD Filled with GOG Games
Redditor u/R550MAGIC2 says he has used his luck for the entire year, as he was surprised to find expensive components in his purchase of a used motherboard. The user reports he saw an MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi motherboard on the marketplace for just $50, and while he already decided to buy it from the seller, he noticed that it had several M.2 heatsinks installed.
He talks to the owner, and to his luck, the owner didn't know much about computers. This is probably why the owner may not have known that his motherboard already had several M.2 NVMe SSDs installed underneath those heatsinks. The Redditor bought the motherboard and found four NVMe SSDs installed on it. These were:
- 2x 4 TB WD Black SN850X: ~$600 per SSD
- 1x 2 TB Corsair MP600: ~ $300
- 1x 2 TB Intel 670p: ~ $270-$280
Put together, the SSDs shouldn't cost under $1700 at the current market prices, and he got all of those for just $50 (and a motherboard). Good for him, all four SSD drives were operational and didn't have an issue. Moreover, one 2 TB SSD also had nearly 1.9 TB of space filled with GOG games. So, that's something we haven't even calculated and included with the free surprise.
This story is similar to the case where someone received two boxes full of NVMe SSDs from Amazon by mistake and ended up with thousands of dollars’ worth of drives. Surprises like these are rare, but it must be an amazing feeling to own such expensive hardware at a time when building a PC seems extremely difficult due to insanely high SSD and RAM prices.
News Source: Reddit
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