Causing a hardware failure via a software program?

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Published on 2010-03-28T00:49:15Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 0:53 UTC
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I want to destroy my Windows PC by running a software program. By destroy I mean: Causing the CPU or RAM to melt, causing the hard drive to crash, etc.

Is there a way to do this?

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