Empire Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Even so, end of the day PC has come a very long way and most PC can handle it even if it's too much on the system. If you where to game heavy on a 20 year old PC then you are crazy. 3 hours ago, Patrik said: PC's blowing due to intensive games is just a joke :p, if your PC isn't capable of running a game, it will just keep playing it at very low FPS (1 fps for example with hardware's usage maxed out), or it will not even launch (sometimes due to unsupported hardware) or it will crash after seconds or even minutes of running. They have safety corridors built-in 🙂 If the CPU overheats too much your CPU fun will spine faster and soon enough your PC willfully go off. Won't get fired bang or catch on fire, just goes off and your screen goes black. Just turn it on again and loads up. Did that once, installed my CPU and then turn it on without the cooler, lasted 30secs before it went off again. Same with the CPU cooler powered up connected but CPU heated up so fast it shuts off. Patrik 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 I've known of games overloading graphics cards and causing them to malfunction such as Witcher 3 did to my friends 1080 TI at the time. The original Witcher 3 was badly optimized for PC and it made your GPU run extremely hot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 I think this is one reason the testing of the configuration is often done and they check the compatibility between the MB, cards and the processors. so I guess doing our own config we have to watch out with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blackangel Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 My PC, no. But a DVD blew up a PS2. We were watching a movie on it, and suddenly heard a loud pop and smoke started coming out of it. I got it out of the house, but we laughed our asses off about it. It was such a random thing. The DVD was fine, but the PS2 was obviously shot. Literally. I used it as a target afterwards. I got pretty good with my 10 ton 9mm before I sold it. The damn thing was heavy as hell. But I got a much better one now, so it's all good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 I kind of remember how those times had the CD and DVD player and too much writing often could lead to the damage for rewriter and blewing up was kind of common too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreiMirfi Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Deceit from Steam. And I'm not the only who complains. My graphics card almost died cuz of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 2 hours ago, AndreiMirfi said: Deceit from Steam. And I'm not the only who complains. My graphics card almost died cuz of it. Did it overheat and what was the extent of the damage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreiMirfi Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 9 hours ago, killamch89 said: Did it overheat and what was the extent of the damage? I opened the game, changed the "Graphics" settings, and when I hit Play... BSOD. My PC was making an awful sound, and yes, the graphics card DID overheat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 16 hours ago, AndreiMirfi said: I opened the game, changed the "Graphics" settings, and when I hit Play... BSOD. My PC was making an awful sound, and yes, the graphics card DID overheat. So you plugged it out or did you call the police and tell them your PC has turned into a ticking time bomb? XD AndreiMirfi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 On 3/24/2021 at 8:10 PM, skyfire said: I kind of remember how those times had the CD and DVD player and too much writing often could lead to the damage for rewriter and blewing up was kind of common too. damn dude, this reminds me back when my DVD reader on PC was making tractor sounds lmao, when it all was the DVD's fault... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Yeah running the DVD writer on high speed was like making strong sounds. And often the data was not readable too. So I can get how that happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 On 4/1/2021 at 1:39 PM, Patrik said: damn dude, this reminds me back when my DVD reader on PC was making tractor sounds lmao, when it all was the DVD's fault... At times, it sounded like the room turned into a whole construction site with the amount drilling and tractor noises coming from the DVD reader. The good old days - back then I used to make some spare cash burning movies and music CDs for people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 You can say bike racing type of sound as the disc is running too fast. That could be something I can relate or give you analogy of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lludawg Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 I took a video game class in university a few years ago and I had to play Civilization. I only had my MacBook at the time and holy moly this game made my MacBook super loud and hot. It did not make it explode but I kind of thought it was going to haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 On 5/14/2021 at 11:19 PM, lludawg said: I took a video game class in university a few years ago and I had to play Civilization. I only had my MacBook at the time and holy moly this game made my MacBook super loud and hot. It did not make it explode but I kind of thought it was going to haha. Macs are not designed for the game. If you want to damage macs then play video games on it. Most of the mac owners use it for coding and other use and not for gaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
