i dont know what you mean at all by wide array of options the "server admins" can toggle. If your refering to EST i doubt it, gameguard is just a rootkit tool which hooks to all proccesses in your computer, looking for specific threats to gameguards integrity and known exploit applications/proccesses. Ive never heard of gg somehow raising temperature of a GPU and burning it out prematurely. A gpu burning out could be result of incorrect settings in the BIOS which causes the memory/vid cards to be overlocked by default.
Secondly if your case is not well vented or there is not proper air circulation, you can easily burn out a vid card especially in a hot/humid climate. Most have temperature sensors to prevent the card from overheating by forcing black screen shutdown on the computer. If gameguard was burning out your vid card you would see the actual temperature changes with any temp monitoring program. If its not changing much in relation to the gpu load of the game your running, or if its in a safe area you wouldnt have any reason to believe the gg is causing any extra problems then those that already exist.
what your referring to gameguards ineffectiveness in regards to botters, memory exploits ect is irrelevant. they always have existed on all mmos/anti cheats, and will be there in the future, no matter what game or anti cheat its running. as white said the suppliers and sellers exist everywheres, and commit resources to bypassing the detection methods.
The only thing you can do is have an effective GM team actively banning, and keep in check the new exploits for its game; which i think EST does a good job compared to other 3rd party publishers who didnt develop the game their hosting.. prime example of this is trying to attach a debugger to any gameguard protected game, the gameguard will detect that and close the game automatically, simliar to detected exploit programs; however some suppliers pay people to go into the assembley code and reverse engineer the "checks" out. Its not something particular to cabal online at all, its everywheres.
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