Whatever this thread was about it's full of misinformation. When a game is actually using your CPU/GPU it's doing what it was designed to do properly. If something does burn out it won't be because of a game, it will be not cleaning out your case semi regularly and/or trying to overclock without sufficient cooling. Complaining Crossfire/SLI isn't scaling 100% isn't even related at all.

Before you say "oh but this <insert game here> burned out video cards!". Yeah they did burn out cards except that they had insufficient cooling to begin with straight from the manufacturer which doesn't fall on developers to design around, take it up with who you bought it from.

There's little reason to have General Drawing Quality above 8 when you can accomplish the same effect by turning on AA with far less of a performance hit. 60 FPS consistently is considered a luxury on high settngs in anything recent, ~30 FPS is more than playable on non FPS/twitch games.