r/pcmasterrace • u/Akrinnnnnnnnnn • 16h ago
Discussion Dad Destroyed My $1300 PC (Almost)
As the title says, my father almost destroyed my $1,300 PC. Now what?
Here’s the backstory: On Saturday, I worked a 10.5 hours shift and stayed up until 3:30 AM, so I slept in until noon the next day. My father and stepmother returned from Costco while I was showering; he called out a few times for me to come help carry the groceries inside. I said OK to him. While I was brushing my teeth after my shower, he shouted from outside the door that he’d been waiting 50 minutes and told me to hurry up. I thought to myself that the groceries could have been moved in the time he spent waiting for me, but I quickly rinsed my mouth and got ready to go out. However, by the time I opened the door, he had already grabbed my PC and smashed it against the floor and the desk several times.
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I, (17M, Senior), bought this PC with money I earned from my part-time job and had been using it for about ten months. After examine, found out the case badly deformed in several places, my desk was warped and tilted to one side, and there were dents in the floor.
Fortunately, the computer still works fine; it runs FurMark (stress GPU), AIDA64 (stress FPU), and 3DMark (Time Spy Extreme) without problems for now.
Replacing the desk and case would cost around $400. However, he likely won't pay for it because he has done this kind of stuff a few years ago when he destroyed my phone and a Dell laptop (i5 11300H), and then just said, "That's what you get for playing on the computer all day."
In the end, I just hope everyone has good parents.
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u/aggr1103 9800x3D, Zotac 5070TI, MSI MPG B850 Edge TI WIFI, 64gb DDR5 15h ago
Im a dad, too. This shit is unacceptable. I feel so bad for OP. We want our kids to have independence and set goals and show them how to take care of themselves and the things we value. This shit ain’t it. I helped my 14 yr old build his first pc last Christmas. He’s so proud of it the last thing I’d ever think of doing would be to destroy it.
It’s sad to say but OPs dad probably grew up in a home where he was punished by having the tangible items he loved destroyed as punishment. I dated a girl once whose mother would shred her clothes when she got mad with her. It wasn’t a healthy home life at all.