I believe the only reason it's running 40-50% for Old Warrior Dude is because he has a hyperthreading proc.
I'm running a Athlon 64 3200 (2.0Ghz clock) with 2GB RAM and a 4GB page file, yet GW will always take 100% (or whatever's left available) cpu usage.
I believe this will happen with most, if not all 3d games (i.e. not solitaire or something like that).
Running at 100% CPU will not hurt your CPU. The only thing you really have to worry about damaging the CPU is overclocking, and that's usually only if you are not properly overclocking your CPU. Most overclockers know what they're doing though so that usually isn't a problem.
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