Is it possible for a demanding game to break a computer?

[Lego lad]

So the other day I was at gamestop and heard a worker talking about a game, and said it demanded a lot out of a graphics card, and then they said "If you don't have a good pc then it will basically break the whole computer"

Is this true? Maybe by computer she meant just the graphics card (via overheating), but idk

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[Obliviongate20]

So the other day I was at gamestop and heard a worker talking about a game, and said it demanded a lot out of a graphics card, and then they said "If you don't have a good pc then it will basically break the whole computer"

Is this true? Maybe by computer she meant just the graphics card (via overheating), but idk

well there's your problem, women don't exist in gamestop silly
just kidding, i have no idea if it's true

[jonnyman5656]

Yes / no

If its a normal computer it should just lag like hell or crash or crash the computer, but it should still work afterwards
Now if you remove the fans and heatsinks then the computer will break beyond repair.

[hodot]

i have a loving republic of gamers laptop and it doesn't run wolfenstein new order at highest settings. goddamn.

[otto-san]

i imagine it would just not run/not run well, and if you insist on running it in spite of that, you'll probs see some temperature issues (and the obvious slowdowns involved)

[Badger]

no, I believe there's fail-safes to prevent that.

such as throttling a cpu if it gets too hot

[Tokthree]

Hah,



No.

[-Setro-]

isn't gamestop all console junkies

[Awesomebread²]

if that were true my laptop would be broken by now