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Lucky: Ordered a Cheap PC Case, Got a Full Prebuilt PC Inside

This image is a screenshot of a Reddit post reposted to 9Gag, showing an opened mid-tower PC computer case. The buyer ordered a cheap empty PC case from Amazon, but upon opening the delivery found a full functional PC (including an MSI motherboard, CPU cooler, case fans, and all internal wiring) already installed inside, making this an unexpected lucky surprise for the buyer. There is also a top comment from the original poster referencing the common PC building community meme of mentioning that you run Arch Linux.
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Ordered a cheap case from Amazon, it came with a whole pc inside

Overview

This image is a screenshot of a Reddit post reposted to 9Gag, showing an opened mid-tower PC computer case. The buyer ordered a cheap empty PC case from Amazon, but upon opening the delivery found a full functional PC (including an MSI motherboard, CPU cooler, case fans, and all internal wiring) already installed inside, making this an unexpected lucky surprise for the buyer. There is also a top comment from the original poster referencing the common PC building community meme of mentioning that you run Arch Linux.

Origin notes

The original post was created by Reddit user KevinFlantier on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit focused on PC building, and was later reposted to 9Gag with the title 'Lucky'. The situation is likely that the case was a returned used item that was not cleared of the previous owner's hardware before being resold as an empty case on Amazon, leaving the new buyer with free extra full PC hardware.

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