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by hnick 1379 days ago
> a computer he aimed a table fan at to keep it cool. The whole casing was open

That brings me back, I had to do the same to play Starcraft in the early 00s in summer since our house had no air conditioning and CPUs were passively cooled. I was drenched in sweat but I wasn't going to give up my games, dammit! The interesting thing is the symptom was just a crash to desktop, not a full system shutdown like now (for safety reasons I assume).