Is it risky to test componants that may be broken in a new machine?

[Wiredchild]

well if the cpu has a heatspreadr there will be no way of looking at the die to see if that is damaged as for ram does it smell burnt and does the gpu smell burnt

Nope, RAM, CPU, GPU and even the Motherboard smell and look fine.

 

[muz]

Nope, RAM, CPU, GPU and even the Motherboard smell and look fine.

well try the barebone