Can someone help explain what I’m looking at? Computer part identification.
Long story short - I paid a “friend” about a year ago to order some PC parts online and build me a PC. I know nothing about building PCs, but he had built a few, so I trusted his judgement and told him to just tell me the price and get what was needed. At the time he told me he got the best he could find for the best deal, but other than that… I’m lost.
The problem came in when the fan he ordered didn’t fit into the shell he ordered, and he got frustrated, and it became a whole ordeal because he used it as an excuse to start a fight with everyone in the house that led to physical violence and ultimately, me leaving that situation for my own safety.
For a year, these parts have sat in this condition in a storage container in my middle room because I’ll be honest - I’ve kicked around the idea of picking up where he left off, watching a few videos… but with the amount I spent, I’m terrified I’d end up breaking something accidentally. As it also turns out, this year life’s been not quite so nice, so I could really use at least some of the money back for these. Thing is, I don’t want to get taken because I don’t exactly know what I’m looking at here, I just have a general idea.
I’m going to reach out to a few computer places and also put them on Facebook marketplace, just was wondering if any of you fine folks could help me identify a few things first and make sure I have a decent idea of what I could hope to recoup from this. The one thing I can tell is the memory sticks(pretty sure that’s what they are - the vengeance ddr5s) are 32gb a piece - it says so on the backs. But again. I don’t know what he put on and what was already there when it comes to certain things as I’ve literally never even done this kind of thing.
Any information would be greatly appreciated, and I can provide more pictures if anyone would like!!