This sounds like trying to do stuff in Excel? The computer isn't overheating but the amount of memory needed is very high which would make it run poorly. They might interpret that as overheating?

[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 87 points 1 day ago

It also makes sense if they are on calling the entire computer "the hard drive" like grandma and the fans kicked on.

[–] jonjuan@programming.dev 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, everyone commenting about being able to handle billions of rows easily, which obviously very true if you are worming with sql or similar.

But this is probably some finance kid, investment banker analyst, and only knows how to use Excel.

60,000 rows in excel with formulas, if not done efficiently, can for sure make you computer a little toasty.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Could be a gen 5 nvme drive without adequate cooling. Them bastards can run hot. Especially the early gen 5 drives.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago

But with only 60k rows would one even have enough time to overheat?