> nearly melted
I’ll be that guy, but a computationally complex problem won’t push your computer to a temperature beyond design limits.
It’s just a turn of the phrase.
When someone says that the sky is falling, that also doesn’t need to be explained
You're welcome to come to my attic office in summer, as they ambient temperature reaches 200F m a sunny day and my obsolete-but-powerful tower PC consumes 350W power and adds to the tropical heat :)
> a computationally complex problem won’t push your computer to a temperature beyond design limits.
Allegedly. It allegedly won't do that.
Practically, running your CPU at design limits for a very long period of time tends to cause the temperature of the rest of the chassis to want to equalize to that temperature, which can be above comfort limits.