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Garbage truck driver finds working RTX 2080 Ti and Threadripper 3960X PC

mansoor1980

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https://videocardz.com/newz/garbage-truck-driver-finds-working-rtx-2080-ti-and-threadripper-3960x-pc

In an unexpected twist of fate, a garbage truck driver stumbled upon what many would consider a goldmine: a fully operational computer equipped with the NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti and AMD Threadripper 3960X.
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PeteBull

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Curious, why would someone just throw away the thing

I used to work with a guy that drove a garbage truck for the city of Sarasota as his day job. Dude basically furnished his house with nice stuff that people were throwing away.

A huge leather sectional with recliners, surround system with receiver, sub, and speakers, coffee tables, end tables, the list goes on and on.
 

Cakeboxer

Member
If you are that richt that you can throw away serious money, you don't play on such a system until 2024

- Vengeful Ex
- Stupid burglar / cleaning lady
- Ultimate proof of love when your partner is unhappy because you play too much
- Mother of all ragequits
- Sudden enlightenment that you need to change your life
- Mean parents
 

Black_Stride

do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
A thread ripper?
Owner was probably loaded and was too lazy to put it up for sale when the 3090 came out and now it was just taking space and he's decided to get rid of it the easy way.
 

Cakeboxer

Member
Crazy. Once garbage is hauled to the curb it is considered county property?
As far as i know in my country not the normal trash can, but bulky trash that you have to make an appointment for the pickup. From that point it's county propery and theft if you take it.
But taking something from the normal trashcan is also illegal. It's also theft or theft + tresspassing if the trash can is on the owner's property.
 

Kadve

Member
Crazy. Once garbage is hauled to the curb it is considered county property?
Well might just apply to recycling centers that they run (they are not allowed to give away or sale stuff that people dump there). But yes, there seemed to have been an incident a while back where some garbage man collected and fixed broken CCTV cameras that he sold online and he got
reported for stealing.

Again though, you have to deal with quite valuable stuff before someone cares.

And as the guy pointed out above. If its your trashcan its also your thrash until you let someone else pick it up.
 
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Ceadeus

Member
So what happened is people can be so rich and spoiled, someone just thought it was ok to dump this kind of materials in the trash?

I'd be curious to know how many careless people living in richer neighborhoods throws their stuff away like this.

And there assuredly many garbage collector asking their boss to do their run in these specific areas lol.
 
If you are that richt that you can throw away serious money, you don't play on such a system until 2024

- Vengeful Ex
- Stupid burglar / cleaning lady
- Ultimate proof of love when your partner is unhappy because you play too much
- Mother of all ragequits
- Sudden enlightenment that you need to change your life
- Mean parents
Would add Unreal Engine stutters to the list.
 

PeteBull

Member
- Ultimate proof of love when your partner is unhappy because you play too much
Thats actually ultimate proof of being a simp and she will not respect u whatsoever anyways.

If woman chose u among tens of tousands of guys(likely milions actually ;) that she got access to(instagram and dating apps are a thing nowadays)- it means u have met most if not all of her long af list of requirements, aka u are her superior, not a partner( even such a "reasonable" stuff like being 6feet or above is 14% of male population, add to that yearly salary of 70k usd , not being married nor obese(overweight is acceptable), under 45yo and u are already in top1% of all men in the US :messenger_ok:


Feminism is so deeply ingrained in western culture even guys started to believe its lies, not just delulu women who are indoctrinated from early age and told they are all princesses and super special :messenger_sunglasses: while in reality we all know most humans are simply average, and thats fine, that is reality :)
 

poppabk

Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
So what happened is people can be so rich and spoiled, someone just thought it was ok to dump this kind of materials in the trash?

I'd be curious to know how many careless people living in richer neighborhoods throws their stuff away like this.

And there assuredly many garbage collector asking their boss to do their run in these specific areas lol.
I used to live part time in an apartment complex in DC and can confirm that people would throw away tons of stuff. Mainly bulkier stuff, but I still have a Samsung 3DTV that someone chucked out.
 

Cyberpunkd

Member
Curious, why would someone just throw away the thing

probably some rich kid

Previous owner probably won/has a large sum of money and decided to upgrade

Might of belonged to someone who is now corpse and the family just chuck all the shit out.
My guess: parents got fed up with their son fucking up his life on some F2P, MP shit and decided to act. Good for him, when he moves out and earns his own money he can do whatever he wants.
 

Cakeboxer

Member
Thats actually ultimate proof of being a simp and she will not respect u whatsoever anyways.

If woman chose u among tens of tousands of guys(likely milions actually ;) that she got access to(instagram and dating apps are a thing nowadays)- it means u have met most if not all of her long af list of requirements, aka u are her superior, not a partner( even such a "reasonable" stuff like being 6feet or above is 14% of male population, add to that yearly salary of 70k usd , not being married nor obese(overweight is acceptable), under 45yo and u are already in top1% of all men in the US :messenger_ok:
Depends. If the gamer games "normally" at first but then becomes obsessed with a game like Wworld of Warcrafr and spends all his time with it, that's another story.
 

mansoor1980

Member
Garbage truck driver who also happens to be a PC enthusiast experienced enough to detect working high end hardware from just watching a case.
Yeah right.
he was probably a part of PCMR group in the past but frequent upgrades ruined him financially
he had to drive a garbage truck to survive .
 
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StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
I used to work with a guy that drove a garbage truck for the city of Sarasota as his day job. Dude basically furnished his house with nice stuff that people were throwing away.

A huge leather sectional with recliners, surround system with receiver, sub, and speakers, coffee tables, end tables, the list goes on and on.
Yup.

I'm on the cusp of tossing out my Panasonic home theatre system when I plan to move next year. It's old (over 10 years old), but I cant find one person who'd take it for free. BR + 5 speakers + subwoofer. Everyone snubs their nose not needing it or want an optical drive piece of equipment. And I dont want the hassle of trying to sell it for $50.
 
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BlackTron

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I found a giant gutted case that had been thrown out the only remaining parts were mobo and a 1080. But the 1080 had the heatsink and fans replaced for the liquid cooling system that had been cut apart. I stuck the card in another PC just to test and it still worked...
 

dave_d

Member
Of course I wonder if it's really working. What I mean is you could have a combo that works for a few minutes but there's something wrong with it that causes it to crash after some amount of time sporadically. I saw that because I have an old motherboard/cpu combo that does that after 10 minutes and even doing a full reinstall of windows didn't fix it. Admittedly it's an old Q6600 so no point in figuring out what's actually broken but I'm wondering if something similar has happened here. (IE you'd actually have to do a stress test to figure out if it's really working as expected.)
 
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