>>3819591I'd never really wondered before what exactly she's doing to the computer here, but when you zoom out, all the parts depicted are recognizable as real-world computer components. I think they actually made her doing something meaningful in this scene.
The computer as a whole looks old-style, but the case looks like a rack-mount server chassis modified to take standard PC components to me, with a six-slot drive bay expansion up top. You have a motherboard & 20+4 pin PSU cable on the floor, there's a PCI extender cable & a main power connector hanging out the back, your actual PSU is in the back chassis, your expansion slot inserts are right next to where she's working, your native hard drive bay with an auxiliary fan are in the front; it's all designed mindfully as an ACTUAL computer.
You wouldn't typically need to gut so many things out of a computer to make some sort of upgrade, so I think she's replacing the motherboard with a new one, which is entirely appropriate since her goal is to be able to support a new-generation processing unit.
>tl;dr: she's replacing her motherboard because her old one couldn't handle the Psyche processor 
