A popular Counter-Strike 2 streamer has allegedly destroyed his high-end graphics card during a live broadcast. Ivan “StRoGo” Shurpatov attempted to detonate more than 100,000 (about 100 thousand) grenades at once on a custom CYBERSHOKE server. Immediately after the massive detonation, the broadcast lost its video feed and ended shortly afterward.
Following the stream termination, StRoGo claimed on his Telegram channel that the graphics card had reached the end of its life. While several reports claimed that the experiment burned out the entire computer, the available stream footage did not show any physical smoke or fire. While esports databases list his current hardware configuration with a GeForce RTX 5090, he did not name the exact model that failed.
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Attentive viewers noted that the photograph of a melted, burned computer case shared on StRoGo’s Telegram was actually an old, unrelated image. Of course, many hardware enthusiasts remain skeptical about whether a game command could physically destroy a modern graphics card. Under typical circumstances, extreme workloads like this detonation would simply trigger GPU crashes or system freezes.
Modern hardware utilizes automatic safety safeguards such as thermal throttling, power limits, and automatic shutdowns to protect components from permanent damage. If the graphics card did fail during the test, the intense rendering load likely exposed a pre-existing hardware issue. This could include a faulty power connector, an unstable manual overclock, or inadequate chassis cooling.
StRoGo stated that he would purchase a replacement graphics card the following day to resume his regular broadcasts. For now, the streamer has not shared any follow-up videos inspecting the damaged hardware.
Source: Twitch (StRoGo), Cybersport
