Destruction of other people’s things as an educational measure – receptionwhich parents sometimes consider pedagogy, and children remember for life. This looks especially impressive when the object of “education” is a system unit bought by a teenager with money from his part-time job, and the reason is bags of groceries that someone did not take out of the car quickly enough.
The story, which one user shared on Reddit, sounds mundane to the point of absurdity. The seventeen-year-old high school student worked a 10.5-hour shift, went to bed at half past four in the morning and slept until noon.
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While he was brushing his teeth after a shower, his father, returning from shopping at Costco, lost patience and repeatedly slammed his PC onto the floor and table.
The result of the inspection looks like this: the body is crushed in several places, the tabletop is skewed and has fallen to one side, and there are dents in the floor. The computer is ten months old, built with money from a part-time job; replacing the case and table will cost about $400.
Apparently, no one is going to pay, because a similar story has already happened with a Dell phone and laptop on the i5-11300H.
The survivability of iron is especially surprising. After the mayhem, the system passed FurMark, the FPU stress test in AIDA64 and Time Spy Extreme in 3DMark without a single error, which is an almost indecent result for a design that was used as a hammer. The problem is that synthetic tests catch overheating and instability, but are blind to the mechanical effects of impact, which take weeks to manifest.
Things to check in this situation:
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the geometry of the video card and the processor heatsink, and at the same time the socket for bent legs and deformation of the clamping frame
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textolite of the video card and motherboard for microcracks and traces of separation of components, especially for heavy radiators
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drives via SMART
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RAM by running Memtest86 for many hours, since the impact could break the contact in the slot
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power supply and all connectors, including 12VHPWR or PCIe, which could become skewed
In the comments, the fathers of other families unanimously explained that they do not consider such a reaction normal in any form, and then there was practical advice, which in this context sounds rather gloomy.
An adult teenager was recommended to open a separate account in another bank, since a joint account allows the second owner to withdraw money without questions, and to freeze his credit history so that a card will not be issued in his name. A legal note was also found: even an adult child living in his parents’ home is formally considered a tenant in many states, and he must be evicted according to the procedure.
The body can be straightened, the table can be bought a new one, and the dents in the floor will remain a reminder of who exactly lost in this situation.
