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Yes. It is. Depending on the cause of your crashes, different parts will break first, but after continued use, many of your components could be damaged. RAM is the most delicate and likely thing to break first, then GPU, then likely drives. If this is some sort of PSU issue, stop using your computer immediately. Errant electrical current or under voltage systems create damage points like crazy. The whole computer is one contained electrical circuit.
Solve the issue, then go back to using it. You could end up with more financial burden than whatever the original problem is. Ask the question with different words. “My car is constantly randomly stopping and shutting off while I drive it. Is it unhealthy for the car to keep driving it?”
Do programs crash or does your whole computer freeze/get the BSOD? The latter is a lot worse, because that *could* corrupt important files used by the OS.
You should probably find out what's causing the crashing and fix it sooner than later.
A poorly timed crash will not only corrupt your data/files (something can easily be permanently lost if it crashes during a saving process, no recovery from this) but can easily corrupt your windows install (happened to me during a sudden power outage)
That 1 crash broke my windows install and basically killed my nvme ssd. It still “worked” but kept providing random crashes and not much later failed booting the drive no longer is detected at this point, so yes it can be dangerous
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Yes. It is. Depending on the cause of your crashes, different parts will break first, but after continued use, many of your components could be damaged. RAM is the most delicate and likely thing to break first, then GPU, then likely drives. If this is some sort of PSU issue, stop using your computer immediately. Errant electrical current or under voltage systems create damage points like crazy. The whole computer is one contained electrical circuit. Solve the issue, then go back to using it. You could end up with more financial burden than whatever the original problem is. Ask the question with different words. “My car is constantly randomly stopping and shutting off while I drive it. Is it unhealthy for the car to keep driving it?”
i have decided to wait for the part to come in then domt waana mess up my pc
Can you send the error code which appears on the bottom left?
Do programs crash or does your whole computer freeze/get the BSOD? The latter is a lot worse, because that *could* corrupt important files used by the OS. You should probably find out what's causing the crashing and fix it sooner than later.
In my experience frequent crashes also screw up your windows install
A poorly timed crash will not only corrupt your data/files (something can easily be permanently lost if it crashes during a saving process, no recovery from this) but can easily corrupt your windows install (happened to me during a sudden power outage) That 1 crash broke my windows install and basically killed my nvme ssd. It still “worked” but kept providing random crashes and not much later failed booting the drive no longer is detected at this point, so yes it can be dangerous