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>> In a properly designed and cooled system there should be nothing a game
>> can do to damage your video card.  Video cards are designed to run full
>> out at high temperatures.
>
>Something I wonder, in computing with general, is if heating can have 
>long term effect on the machine. Although launching a game won't kill 
>your system, how about running BOING or cloud computing stuff 24/7 ?

I'm assuming that by BOING you actually meant BOINC.

I do run BOINC 24/365 running Seti, Rosetta, Einstein and Milkyway @home
jobs.  2 of 4 cores are permanently assigned to this and it uses the GPU
when the computer is idle.  
It's had negligible effect on heat production.
I do have a full tower case with good ventilation though.
If you have a smaller case with bad ventilation it's possible you could
have issues, but those issues would crop up under active gaming (that
actually pushes the hardware) as well so if you're ok there, you should
be fine.

Xocyll
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