| ▲ | XorNot 4 days ago | |
It's basically an Internet fable at this point that there's "a game that physically damages your hardware". The answer to every such claim is just: no. But it's click bait gold to the brain damage outrage YouTuber brigade. Accidentally using a ton of resources might e reveal weaknesses, but it is absolutely not any software vendors problem that 100% load might reveal your thermal paste application sucked or Nvidia is skimping on cable load balancing. | ||
| ▲ | eurekin 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
Trust me, I'm a software developer with more than two decades of experience. Have been dabbling in hardware since the Amiga 500 era. "I have that specific set of skills" that allows me to narrow down a class of issues pretty well - just a lot of component switching in a binary divide and conquer fashion across hardware. The issue is 1) actually exaggarated in the community, but not without actual substance 2) getting disregarded exactly because of exaggarations. It was a very real thing. I also happen to have a multi gpu workstation that works flawlessly too | ||
| ▲ | FieryMechanic 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
This was pretty much my take as well. I have an older CPU, Motherboard and GPU combo before the newer GPU power cables that obviously weren't tested properly and I have no problems with stability. These guys are running an intensive game on the highest difficulty, while streaming and they probably have a bunch of browser windows and other software running background. Any weakness in the system is going to be revealed. I had performance issues during that time and I had to restart game every 5 matches. But it takes like a minute to restart the game. | ||