News A hurricane hit this gaming PC, but the owner hopes it can be powered up again

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A harrowing image of a gaming PC that endured severe battering during Hurricane Helene has been shared on the PCMR subreddit. Despite being left a tragically sodden and silt-strewn PC after the category four storm, Redditor Frequent-Band9676 joked about the number of cans of compressed air needed to clean up the tower.

A hurricane hit this gaming PC, but the owner hopes it can be powered up again : Read more

 

[derekullo]

Hindsight is 20/20 but a large plastic bin like this probably would have protected it from much of the muck.
It may have even floated!

 

[ThatMouse]

I live in Florida and you basically want to keep that <Mod Edit> stuff off the floor or evacuate if you're in a flood zone.

 

[hotaru251]

I highly suggest he do more than air.

Derbaur did a few videos in past about helping some people who had PC's hit in hurricanes and stuff...they were BAD.

honestly the guy might want to invest in a sonic cleaner large enoguh for the parts as thats best way to remove stuff from palces you cant see anything wrong with.

 

[SueDennim]

I think the odds are pretty good it will work. As long as the PC wasn't powered on when the floods came in then there is a good chance the machine will live again.
I had a mini ITX gaming desktop that got flooded while in storage during a house move. With a bit of drying and cleaning of soaked roof tile reminants out of it, I managed to get everything apart from the BlueRay disk drive working again. I initially thought it was a write-off and so successfully claimed it on the insurance. I eventually got a new gaming laptop and was able to give the system to a friend. They still use it to this day.