Happened just a few weeks ago.
Was playing the last Elder Scrolls Online Beta weekend and suddenly everything crashed. My GPU had finally given out on me (though I was unaware at the time). I opened up the tower to take the GPU out thinking that the fan may have been clogged or blocked by something, as this has happened before. I ended up bumping a cheap little plastic latch that came with my unit. I was unaware of this latch as I didn't build the PC, I merely took out the power supply and put in a new one to support the GPU I added. Well this tiny little latch was the only thing that held the heat sink/processor in place.
Suffice to say that got knocked around a bit and so now that whole thing is fucked. I'm way too clumsy to want to just replace it myself so for the time being I salvaged what I could from it and put it into an older machine I had laying around (thank goodness I never decided to scrap that one).
Luckily I still have a capable laptop so I'm able to play my games, just not to the level of quality I'd like. Saving up money for a new one now.
Was playing the last Elder Scrolls Online Beta weekend and suddenly everything crashed. My GPU had finally given out on me (though I was unaware at the time). I opened up the tower to take the GPU out thinking that the fan may have been clogged or blocked by something, as this has happened before. I ended up bumping a cheap little plastic latch that came with my unit. I was unaware of this latch as I didn't build the PC, I merely took out the power supply and put in a new one to support the GPU I added. Well this tiny little latch was the only thing that held the heat sink/processor in place.
Suffice to say that got knocked around a bit and so now that whole thing is fucked. I'm way too clumsy to want to just replace it myself so for the time being I salvaged what I could from it and put it into an older machine I had laying around (thank goodness I never decided to scrap that one).
Luckily I still have a capable laptop so I'm able to play my games, just not to the level of quality I'd like. Saving up money for a new one now.