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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
I remember playing wow on an old Walmart PC, raiding molten core my PC would overheat everytime about 30 mins into the raid without fail and just shut itself down and start beeping at me for like 20 mins while it cooled off.

I called tech support and told them my situation and what my PC was doing and the Indian dude I got just went "oooooh....thats not good" and didn't help much.

I came up with a crazy idea one night to hook up an AC window unit to the PC case with some duct tape ...and it fucking worked.
gpt
I don't think CPUs back then throttled to save themselves, so they'd just run until they switched off.

It didn't help most people didn't know anything about power supplies, so everyone just had whatever powersupply came with the PC. I'm amazed we didn't have more fires.

Back in those days I had my side panel off most of the time with a large floor fan pointing into the PC.