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.
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.
Old meme, new pain. Ray tracing, 8K textures, and “Can it run Crysis?” is still valid. Spoiler: No, not really.
Beautiful. Immersive. And absolutely merciless on both CPU and GPU. Flying has never felt more like benchmarking.
Arthur Morgan wasn’t the only one sweating. Max settings turned rigs into furnaces. But the lighting, though...
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.