Recently in Reddit On the forum, the story of a super lucky netizen sparked heated discussions. He was a computer novice. He accidentally mentioned to his neighbor that he wanted to start playing with computers, so he got it “for free” from his neighbor. And the point is, even though this computer is an old computer, its specifications are definitely the envy of many players: It is equipped with RTX 3090 Graphics card and i9-10850K processor。
Foreign netizens got RTX 3090 computers for free, and the specifications made many netizens sigh with envy
A Reddit user, JoeBiden-mytime, shared on the r/PcBuild subreddit, “My neighbor gave me his old computer when he knew I wanted to start playing with computers. Are the parts useful? Or are they obsolete?” He also attached a photo showing what the inside of the computer looks like.
Judging from the text, this netizen is obviously a novice and knows nothing about computer specifications. Unexpectedly, his neighbor was so generous and directly gave him a powerful gaming computer.
From the photo, you can clearly tell at a glance that the graphics card is the “NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founding Edition”. Although this card is more than 5 years old, it is still very powerful and has 24GB of large memory. For most games, it can run smoothly at the highest image quality settings, and it can even be used to run AI.
The processor is an Intel Core i9-10850K with 10 cores, and it also comes with an NZXT Kraken liquid cooling system. The motherboard is the ASUS ROG Maximus Hero series that supports overclocking, and the memory is two pieces of Team Group T Force, with a total of 16GB (8GB each).
Later, he also shared a screenshot of the system. From here, it can also be found that the storage space has two SSDs:
Overall, although this computer is old, its specifications are still very strong in 2026. It can play games, AI or edit videos without any problem.
Many netizens left comments below saying they were extremely envious, such as: “What kind of good luck is this! It costs a lot of money to buy a similar second-hand computer.”, “RTX 3090 is a great graphics card that can meet the needs of today’s mid-range games.”
Some users also suggested that they clean out the dust in their computers first, because old computers are prone to dust accumulation and will affect performance.
Of course, some netizens doubted whether this was fake. Marci-boni mentioned: “My neighbor is giving away an entire RTX 3090 computer for free? This sounds like a post to attract clicks.”
Foreign media Tom’s Hardware also compiled the listing prices of the main hardware of this computer:
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 FE: $1,499
- Intel Core i9-10850K (10 cores/20 threads): $453
- Asus ROG Maximus XIII Hero Z590 motherboard: $499
Those three alone were over $2,000 that year. Even the second-hand price, in Taiwan, the RTX 3090 FE is still between 25,000 and 40,000, which can only be said to be really enviable.
Later, JoeBiden-mytime also shared a photo of the computer after it was turned on. You can see that the fan, water cooling and memory all have RGB lighting effects. The overall visual effect is quite good:
Source: KOCPC Chinese