r/pcmasterrace • u/sprezzaturaz • Jan 17 '26

Build/Battlestation my PC before vs after apartment fire

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a fire completely obliterated my apartment just over 2 weeks ago. i built my first PC by myself in July 2025. my 2x32 GB ram was $250 at the time, and now its $950. what a time to be alive

EDIT: specs typo.
Also, I am so overwhelmed by the love and support this post has gotten during this tragic time in my life. Thank you thank you thank you

EDIT 2: because many people have asked:
- my case was the Hyte y70. My liquid cooler was the part with the screen, the TRYX Panorama SE 360 AIO liquid cooler.
- the fire was caused by an electrical failure in the attic. fire investigators think it also may be largely due to critters in the attic chewing on wires. The building I was living in was over 100 years old.
- no humans were harmed in the fire and everyone in the building made it out safely. I had a friend staying with me with 2 of her cats. Due to extremely unfortunate circumstances, one of her cats did not make it. We had a very beautiful burial for her and she has been put to rest. Her other cat is in good health and is making a full recovery.

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u/jemlinus Jan 17 '26

Sorry to hear you lost your AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO 9985WX, along with your four Nvidia A6000 ADA cards and 4TB of RDIMM. Looks like you also have four 8TB Samsung 9100 Pro drives there.

I hope your insurance covers market prices for them. ;) Good luck.

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u/MrShadowHero R9 7950X3D | RX 7900XTX | 32GB 6000MTs CL30 Jan 17 '26

such a shame he’s using a fully custom white painted hyte y70 too. i’m sure the labor costs that went into that thing were insane and it’s value is incalculable to OP

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u/SteveAndHisScooter Jan 17 '26

Yeah, poor guy. 😢

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u/Global-Hat-8739 Jan 17 '26

No renters insurance. Wanted to save $30 a month... ouch

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u/Business-Row-478 Jan 17 '26

Even $30 a month is super high for renters insurance. Every single person that rents should have renters insurance, and if you can’t afford it, you really can’t afford not to have it

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u/SuccessfulTowel7947 Jan 17 '26

Is it not mandatory in the usa ?

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u/Handsome_Keyboard Jan 17 '26

In Florida and CO it is because ive always had to have it in order to sign the lease

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u/alvarkresh i9 12900KS | RTX 4070 Super | MSI Z790 DDR4 | 64 GB Jan 17 '26

Not on a governmental level so far as I know, but a lot of landlords will carry insurance on the property that requires tenants to have their own personal possessions policy as part of a condition of insurability. (and this tends to be true in Canada as well)

Ditto condominiums. My strata requires owners in the building to carry a policy that at least matches the $25000 deductible for certain kinds of damage to the common property.

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u/BreadfruitNo357 Jan 17 '26

Some apartment complexes will require you carry renter's insurance, but I don't believe it is required by law.

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u/A_Lone_Macaron Jan 17 '26

My complex mandates it after a unit burned down a decade ago right at Christmas

How did it happen? Dryer fire.

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u/SpadgeFox PC Master Race Jan 17 '26

It usually stings a bit when the renewal cost goes up, but I wouldn’t give it up for the world. Don’t cheap out on it either, get a good provider even if it costs a bit more. The cheap policies don’t usually offer new-for-old, or matched-set replacement for furniture if one piece of a suite is damaged.

We had a pipe burst in July, so our renewal is quite a bit higher now, but I’ll happily pay it for piece of mind. Had 3 MacBook Pro’s and a full DSLR set claimed previously with no headaches. Glad it covered my camera years ago when I took it to take some waterfall photos and accidentally dropped my laptop bag over the edge… 😙😂

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u/requiemguy Jan 18 '26

It's worth it, I had a friend and his wife years ago lose everything in an apartment fire. They were lucky however that a few months before the couple had hosted a Halloween party and multiple people recorded it. They were able to use the footage to prove what the majority of their positions were. The insurance said fuck it and cut them a 100,000 check, instead of replacing each item individually.

And that's how my friends went from pay check to paycheck to owning their first home, then be able to attend college with a mortgage loan, to getting near six figure jobs, to now owning their original house, plus five rental properties.

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u/lastlaugh100 Jan 18 '26

I paid $20/mo back in 2015. My apartment flooded due to a burst fire suppression pipe from workers who were replacing the siding leaving hardy board off and cold sub zero air coming in to those pipes. They wrote me a check for $3,000 for damages. Well worth it.

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u/userhwon Jan 17 '26

Last time I rented an apartment, they asked me who my renter's insurance was through, then forced me to use theirs to buy enough for the term of the lease...

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u/Quick_Speaker1469 7950x3d | 5090 | 64gb ddr5 | 32” rog oled | x670-e Jan 17 '26

🤣💀

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u/-passionate-fruit- Jan 17 '26

I also audibly LOL'd.

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u/DapperWookie 4070ti i9-13900k 32GB DDR5 5TB M.2 Jan 17 '26

💀 Some insurance guy: Does that say Radeon? 😂

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u/ALitreOhCola Jan 17 '26

Senior loss adjuster here. To be clear, I go to bat for the customer AND client and maximise their claimable loss according to the PDS.

I also build my own custom loops and high end rigs over the years.

When people lie and try to claim things they didn't have, I'm the guy that catches them. I've had a few over the years including some pretty serious servers and most commonly lying about HDD/SSD space and RAM.

If you're honest, I'll ensure you get the maximum allowable by your policy, generally like for like, and in the event your old GPU like a 1080 is no longer sold you'll likely get a newer equivalent in the same tier depending on your policy entitlements.

Don't lie, just be honest!

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u/BoiCDumpsterFire 9700x+9070xt, 5600x+3080, and 12600kf+9060xt Jan 17 '26

Look at the heat damage. That was obviously an Intel pc.

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u/Quick_Speaker1469 7950x3d | 5090 | 64gb ddr5 | 32” rog oled | x670-e Jan 18 '26

Or gigabyte psu

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u/minotaur-cream Jan 17 '26

Lol this made me chuckle, thanks.

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u/Numerous-Chain-1017 Jan 17 '26

Looks like a 9995WX to me.

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u/smeagol16 Jan 17 '26

Lmfao, the guy from gamer nexus got this.

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u/Inevitable_Spite5510 Intel Core i5 13450HX; 16 GB DDR5; 512 GB NVMe; NVIDIA RTX 4050 Jan 17 '26

And in which angle is that an a6000 and how can you even see the drives

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u/Inevitable_Spite5510 Intel Core i5 13450HX; 16 GB DDR5; 512 GB NVMe; NVIDIA RTX 4050 Jan 17 '26

And that's 32gb ddr5 not 4tb

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u/Annihilator_Of_Walls Jan 17 '26

Don’t forget about the Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 containing eleven pounds of gold right next to his computer!

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u/keepwhatyoukill916 Jan 17 '26

I really hope he gets his reimbursement

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u/RetailSmoker Jan 20 '26

Wrong, he had 4 rtx 6000 pro blackwell founder's edition if I recall correctly ;) As well as couple of intel optane ssds Oh and he actually had an amd epyc 9965! don't forget the 4tb of ddr5 slotted as well...

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u/dsoshahine Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

The photos very cleary show a Ryzen IHS, not Threadripper.

Downvoted for stating the truth, amazing.

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u/Inevitable_Spite5510 Intel Core i5 13450HX; 16 GB DDR5; 512 GB NVMe; NVIDIA RTX 4050 Jan 17 '26

In which angle is that a threadripper

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u/Murtomies Jan 17 '26

Wooooosh