Redditor finds AMD PC once belonging to ex-CEO Rory Read in basement

A Reddit user who works as an HVAC tech says they discovered a PC likely belonging to former AMD CEO Rory Read in a customer’s basement. The machine appears to be an Xigmatek XEN6329 Mini-ITX cube chassis signed by several people, including a note that reads, “To Rory, All the best from Team AMD, Lisa Su.” The box looked unopened, the Redditor wrote: padding paper and foam holding it in place, plastics, shrink-wrapped copies of Microsoft Office, and a Windows 8.1 installation CD-ROM.

The computer itself was completely dust free—even the power cord was never unwrapped. The customer, who had bought the box at auction years earlier after closing a computer shop in 2016, offered the HVAC tech anything they wanted from the stock downstairs. Photos shared by the Redditor show what is likely a tiny Sapphire-supplied ITX variant of the AMD Radeon R9 285, which would date the build to around when Read stepped down as CEO in 2014.

Why the PC was apparently unused and how it ended up at auction remain unclear.

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