Timeline for Is my video game destroying my computer?
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Jan 30, 2015 at 18:15 | vote | accept | Zibbobz | ||
| Feb 21, 2014 at 19:41 | comment | added | MBraedley | I've cooked a (work machine) video card before after a fan failed, and I wasn't doing anything as intensive as 3D gaming. | |
| Feb 21, 2014 at 15:28 | comment | added | Frank | @ratchetfreak And that's a hardware failure if ever I heard one. It's not the game causing the problem; it's the hardware functionality no longer working correctly. Driver bugs still aren't the game causing the problem, either. All it's doing is bringing the problem to light due to failing hardware/bad drivers. | |
| Feb 21, 2014 at 15:25 | comment | added | ratchet freak | don't be so sure, if the temperature sensor fails then the driver won't be able to throttle the card properly and it will burn out, this can also happen if there is a bug in the driver | |
| Feb 21, 2014 at 15:06 | history | answered | Frank | CC BY-SA 3.0 |