A player buys a motherboard for around 45 euros. However, the real treasure is not the motherboard, but the NVMe SSDs installed on it.
The magazine WCCFTech reports on a user who bought a motherboard. For the MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi, he is said to have only paid 50 US dollars, if the screenshot of the offer is to be believed. That amounts to about 45 euros. The special thing, however, is not the motherboard, but the pre-installed NVMe SSDs. The user explained himself (on Reddit.com):
I saw a z690 on the marketplace for 50 dollars and wanted to buy it until I saw SSD coolers on all 4 NVMe slots. I spoke to the seller, who told me that he didn’t know much about computers and was only selling it for a lower price than on eBay.
The player therefore seized the opportunity and bought the motherboard along with the installed NVMe modules from the person. In hindsight, this paid off for him.
4 NVMe SSDs worth around 1,400 are included for free
What did he get for free exactly? In total, there were 4 NVMe SSDs of different varieties mounted on the motherboard:
- 2x 4 TB WD Black SN850X, the price per model is about 400 euros (Geizhals.de)
- 1x 2 TB Corsair MP600, the price is 351 euros (Geizhals.de)
- 1x 2 TB Intel 670p, the model costs around 290 euros (idealo.de)
If you add up all the current market prices, you come to a value of around 1,400 euros (as of February 24, 2026).
Basically, the user shows no intention of returning the items. Instead, he stated that he would prefer to trade one of the expensive models for an OLED monitor. The buyer would then have been quite lucky that the seller did not know the actual value of his goods.
However, there are also positive counterexamples: In one case, a player also found SSDs on a motherboard but returned them to the seller.
Why was it so cheap? Some users speculate that the motherboard must have been stolen hardware. Because no one would just sell a motherboard with all NVMe SSDs. Someone explains on Reddit:
It is impossible that the seller was the original owner/user of this board. And given the many expensive SSDs that were on it (even the cheapest of these 4TB drives were expensive), I would say that it was stolen and then sold for parts.
Basically, this claim cannot really be verified, and one can only speculate why the seller sold the motherboard so cheaply. Because, fundamentally, prices for RAM, SSDs, and graphics cards are currently rising.
It keeps happening, that people order hardware, cancel it, and then sell it for three times the price. The NVMe SSDs that were installed on the motherboard are likely to be worth a few hundred euros more in a few weeks.
Players regularly forget to remove their SSDs or storage media. In one case, a user forgot to remove his SSD from his sold PS5. But the games are not as useful as it sounds: A player buys a used PS5 – But the seller apparently forgot to remove his 4 TB SSD full of games
