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I've heard that heat issues can cause problems with PCs, but is this realistic? Is leaving the desktop in a cabinet area, or above-average-room-temp, a realistic potential cause of slowdowns?
(I'm completely aware that there are other contributing factors to computer 'slowness', just wondering if this is a realistic problem, or mostly mental).
I can confirm that, from my own experience, higher internal temperatures negatively affects performance. One time I replaced a completely dried-up thermal paste layer on CPU with a fresh one, and immediately after that there was an actual, numerical boost in FPS count in videogames without any other changes. – Dragomok – 2017-06-17T19:00:15.930