User blog comment:CptSteveRogers/Gamers, and consoles./@comment-7746255-20130726233625/@comment-30610591-20130727155559

In a way you do run the risk of crashing something the more you can do with it, but I think that PC's that people use for gamming don't crash as often. An iPhone would be a good example of something that can do a lot but doesn't crash normally.

If you have a steam account, I think it saves the progress you get in a game, but you would have to re-download it. And I don't know what re-image means so I don't know how to help you there. Maybe get a new PC (newer ones can handle things better than ones that have been around for a while). Yeah you have to pay internet to download the games, but unless you pay by the ammount of internet you use you don't have much of a bill to pay.