Auctions are events where sometimes; people do get genuinely lucky. For one individual, their luck came in the form of a mislabelled Fractal Design casing that turned out to be a full-blown PC.
Redditor LlamadeusGame told their story on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit on how they paid US$32 (~RM134) for what they thought was just going to be a Fractal Design Define 7 XL casing, previously owned by Puget System, and instead got a fully kitted out PC. We’re talking a 24-core Ryzen Threadripper 3960X, 256GB DDR4 RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FE.
Granted, the components themselves aren’t as cutting edge as current hardware, but as a alleged Puget Systems engineer confirmed in the thread, the system likely sold for US$8,000 (~RM33,687) when it was first built in 2021, which again, highlights just how extremely lucky LlamadeusGame was when he won the bid.
And it’s not like his new procured system isn’t capable of gaming. The 3960X may be a couple of generations old but 24-cores is still way more cores than what you’ll get in any of AMD’s current generation, consumer Ryzen CPUs. And the RTX 3080 Ti? That’s still a very serviceable card, on par with the RTX 5070, sans any ability to support DLSS 4 and MFG.
LlamadeusGame said, however, that their original plan was to use the casing to make a new AI development build. It’s evident that they were planning on procuring the other components separately, but again, with lady luck having saved him a small budget, they’re obviously going to be using most of said components for their project. We say most, because of the likelihood that they will need to swap out the RTX 3080 Ti; while great for gaming, its AI performance still isn’t as great as current and modern GPUs.
(Source: Reddit, Tom’s Hardware)
