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Top 5 Games That Wrecked Our Rigs

Some games challenge your reflexes. Others challenge your morality. These? They challenged our cooling systems. We’re talking fan-screaming, frame-stuttering, power-spiking monsters. Let’s dive in.

1. Cyberpunk 2077 (Launch)

The poster child of hype meets heat. Even on high-end builds, Night City brought the pain with unoptimized assets, streaming lag, and physics explosions. Worth it? Yeah. Barely.

2. Crysis Remastered

Old meme, new pain. Ray tracing, 8K textures, and “Can it run Crysis?” is still valid. Spoiler: No, not really.

3. Microsoft Flight Simulator

Beautiful. Immersive. And absolutely merciless on both CPU and GPU. Flying has never felt more like benchmarking.

4. Red Dead Redemption 2 (PC)

Arthur Morgan wasn’t the only one sweating. Max settings turned rigs into furnaces. But the lighting, though...

5. Star Citizen (Alpha Builds)

It’s not finished. It’s not optimized. And it doesn’t care. It will chew up your resources for breakfast.

Final Thought: You can turn down settings — but you can’t turn off obsession. And we, clearly, are obsessed.