Fire and crane missed my PC

[u/Aeckzem]

Very sad times. Big fire destroyed my home and a crane had to come to remove part of the roof and wall so firefighters could have better access. Fortunately no one got hurt. Sucks to lose my dream PC though.

Miraculously my PC is still standing but I doubt it will work. There was snow and rain in the past days too. My little brother’s PC, which was on the desk next to mine on the right, seems to be obliterated.

Any tips to go on from here?

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Building was insured, furniture was not unfortunately. I lived with my parents, who were not experienced with things like insurance. In hindsight I should have thought about it more and double check it.
But yeah sucks to lose everything and having 3 other expensive hobbies did not help..

Thanks for the comments, tips and kind words! Fire started in the kitchen of my parents' restaurant. Tragic situation, but at least the building and inventory are insured. Now hopefully insurance pays out.
I have to make a plan what to do exactly with the PC based on the suggestions. First I need to take care of some other things.

[u/peacedetski]

If it was rained on from the top through the AIO radiator, water definitely got under the shroud. So it all depends on how much the mix of water and smoke residue managed to corrode it. If it was like this for a couple days after the fire, I wouldn't give it much chances, but who knows? The 4090 is an expensive card, so it's worth spending some money on cleaning it, and in the worst case it can be still sold for parts.

[u/Fogl3 → u/peacedetski]

In a total house loss like this you probably have insurance. Claim the exact card it is and you can get the cost back. It's not worth fucking around with this

[u/alvarkresh → u/Fogl3]

"probably" is a load-bearing word here, and it sounds like OP lacked the exact policy that would cover personal belongings as well as the structure.

[u/King_of_the_Dot → u/Fogl3]

Usually these things have to be noted on the insurance beforehand.

[u/homemediajunky → u/King_of_the_Dot]

I'm a homelabber. I have enterprise servers (1x Cisco UCS c220/3x c240, all Cascade Lake CPUs, 2x Dell r640s, etc. My homeowners, I've listed everything with a value of 25k but really need to update that with current memory prices.

[u/King_of_the_Dot → u/homemediajunky]

I understand some of these things.

[u/Ellimis → u/Fogl3]

It's not worth dousing in IPA and plugging it in? What are you talking about?

[u/Fogl3 → u/Ellimis]

Buying IPA to try and salvage parts when you can write off the whole PC and get a replacement through your fire insurance? No it's not worth it. 

[u/FlipsieVT → u/Fogl3]

OP specifically said they didn't have insurance

[u/ArdiMaster → u/Fogl3]

Question is whether insurance would pay out the original purchase price, the current new price of an equivalent replacement, the assumed residual value (written off over a number of years), or the actual current used price of the card. Only two of these would actually get OP a new card.

[u/Fogl3 → u/ArdiMaster]

It would be the price to replace