Comment by mkesper

3 days ago

Every old hardware needing a fan is also a silent fire risk.

A fire risk? I think it'd be exceptionally rare for that kind of thing to lead to a fire instead of just dead parts (assuming no overtemperature protections). Even people with the 600 w melting GPU cables don't end up with an actual fire.

Batteries, however, are absolute hellfire when they go wrong (because of chemistry - not just the temperature).