Fried Motherboards in Arc Raiders are items that players will need to upgrade their Utility Station to Level 3. The required amount is three, and while the game can be generous by giving players these items in abundance, you will need to visit the right areas to acquire them. The guide below details where to look for these Fried Motherboards and all locations where they can drop in Arc Raiders.
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Where to Find Fried Motherboard in Arc Raiders
The Fried Motherboard sells for 2,000 coins and can be recycled into five Plastic Parts and two Electrical Components. Its description states that it can be found in Technological locations. There are numerous locations like this across all maps, so load into a match and make your way to them. What you are looking for is either breachable metal boxes or the electrical boards. Inside, you will find the Fried Motherboards you need for the station upgrade.
Despite the information indicating technological locations, you can still find them at any location if there is an electrical board present, such as the Power Generation Complex in Dam Battlegrounds. The best farming map for these items is the Spaceport map. The whole map is a technological hub, so you should not have any problems extracting with multiple of these.
You can also find Power Rods in these electrical boards that you can use in the room inside the Power Generation Complex. There are a lot of lockers inside with good rarity loot, especially in the Night Raid, Electromagnetic Storms, or Cold Snap map conditions, so check them out.
You can try loading into a map with a free loadout, and if you spawn close to one of the technological buildings at the start of the round, then you can visit them and search the breachable boards. In the case that you spawn late or far away from the locations, they will probably already be looted, so you should simply surrender. Try another run in the hopes that you spawn at a better location and with a better weapon to deal with ARCs.
All Fried Motherboard Locations
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Location |
Map |
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Control Tower |
Dam Battlegrounds |
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Research & Administration |
Dam Battlegrounds |
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Research |
Buried City |
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Space Travel |
Buried City |
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Arrival Building |
Spaceport |
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Departure Building |
Spaceport |
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Launch Towers |
Spaceport |
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Control Tower A6 |
Spaceport |
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South Trench Tower |
Spaceport |
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North Trench Tower |
Spaceport |
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Ancient Fort |
The Blue Gate |
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Pilgrim's Peak |
The Blue Gate |
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Reinforced Reception |
The Blue Gate |
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Sandbox |
Stella Montis |
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Lobby Metro |
Stella Montis |
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Lobby |
Stella Montis |
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Communications |
Stella Montis |
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Medical Research |
Stella Montis |
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Assembly |
Stella Montis |
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Assembly Workshops |
Stella Montis |
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- Released
- October 30, 2025
- ESRB
- Teen / Violence, Blood
- Developer(s)
- Embark Studios
- Publisher(s)
- Embark Studios







- Genre(s)
- Extraction, Shooter, Third-Person Shooter, Survival