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Surely it has happened to you: you are playing with your gaming PC and suddenly it turns off. You don't know if it's because of a technical problem, a hardware error or some other kind of failure. What many people don't know is that, in most cases, it's a safety response from our computer... Just as it happened to a player who made a huge mistake.
When someone tells you that it is important to clean the dust from inside your computer from time to time or that it is important to place it in an area where it can ventilate, it is not for nothing. It's not that we like how it looks or consider that it has to be done so that the RGB shines in all its splendor.
It's for maintenance and safety. Recently, Reddit has once again shown us why. How? Through a gamer whose PC kept shutting down constantly, reaching much higher than normal temperatures in the process.
He placed his PC in the worst possible place and the inevitable happened: it started to shut down
What this player's friend did was place his PC inside a kind of completely enclosed cabinet. Despite this, he had no idea why his computer was getting so hot.
The answer, in this case, is very simple: by expelling hot air in a closed environment, the temperature inside the cabinet rose progressively. This caused the computer to become hotter than normal, as the hot air it expelled stayed around it.
This caused the cooling to be much worse than normal. But why did the PC shut down? Most computers are equipped with an automatic shutdown system for safety when the temperature of one or more parts exceeds the limit threshold.
In other words, your computer did not shut down due to a malfunction, but to prevent other errors and/or prevent the situation from getting worse. It is common for this to happen when the motherboard, graphics card or processor get too hot.
Logically, many Reddit s have laughed at the situation while wondering how someone, in 2025, can not know this. Nevertheless, we must that many people are not aware of things that others may consider basic, and vice versa.