Comment by haiku2077

The computer is a general purpose tool, though. You can play games, edit video and images, and self-host a movie/TV collection with real time transcoding with the same hardware. Many people have powerful PCs for playing games and running professional creative software already.

There's no reason running a model would shorten a machine's lifespan. PSUs, CPUs, motherboards, GPUs and RAM will all be long obsolete before they wear out even under full load. At worst you might have to swap thermal paste/pads a couple of years sooner. (A tube of paste is like, ten bucks.)