MrSharpy
But it's strange for a simple BF4 style Scoreboard for a Garry's Mod TTT server to put that much stress on a GPU in that short of time, and that was only having it up for 10secs I wonder what it would have been if I was looking at it for 1 min. If anyone reading this who has Garry's Mod please join that server test it out for me, if it happens to everyone else I would feel at ease also I would recommend people not go onto that server if it happens to everyone, too bad for the server owner put your players first before adding pointless stuff like that to the server.
Very simple things can cause big issues. Feel free to google "starcraft 2 no frame limit title screen" if you have some time. This doesn't directly relate, but it does tell you to be cautious if you notice abnormal performance issues.
A short very generalized version of that story, "idling at menu screen fried player's graphic card".
-there is plenty of blame put around when that occured. I look at it as the hardware manufacturer and Blizzard both at fault.
-no matter what settings/config you run a program, software should never be able to cause damage to the hardware.
AND for blizzard to overlook such a basic thing like a frame limiter is also bad.
(there were no issues in other areas of the game. it just seems that nobody thought to test through something as simple/generic as a menu screen.)
So you are concerned about your card with heat and longevity of course. If it is an isolated incident, then stay away from those type of "modded" servers like you mentioned.