Afraid I've shorted out my GPU?! Please help!

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Okay so I bought my GPU and it came back to today and I'm super worried I did something. As I was holding it, I accidentally touched the corner of the circuit board. It felt sort of sticky pulling my finger off it, and I wasn't wearing anti static protection! Please help I feel sick and worried and want to cry.
 
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Okay guys I've plugged it in and it IS working. First time I turned it on it didn't make any suspicious noises or anything like that, and seemed fine. The resolution was something horrible like 800x600, but it installed some basic drivers/updates and when restarted is in 1920x1080. I haven't installed any new drivers or anything, as I JUST installed it. Fans on it are turning too. But guys, if I did something wrong, it wouldn't bluntly just not work would it? It would slowly die over a few weeks? Remember now, I touched it and it felt sticky pulling my finger off of it, I wonder/I'm not sure if that was some sort of static that could have been pulling my finger to it? I'm still very worried. I'm going to go try run a game on it to see if it performs as it should.
 
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Yeah I'm sorry. But I'm so worried since I wasn't wearing ESD protection and what if it occurred? MY FINGER WAS STICKY TO TRY PULLING IT OFF. The GPU gets warm after playing Injustice for about 5/10 minutes on max settings, and it ran at 60FPS as it should. Is this normal? Please tell the truth. I could probably send it back before anything bad happens. I'm so worried. I feel like I dropped £250 down the drain and there could be a rat god who'll return it, or his money eating rats will slowly eat it over time and there's no way I'll know.
 
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I am trying to tell you the truth, but you somehow cannot accept it. Nothing is wrong. In several decades of assembling computers I have only once seen a person fry a component due to ESD. Guess it depends on many factors, not only to wearing protection or not. However, when ESD strikes, you don't feel sticky. You feel like someone stuck a needle in your finger. Therefore it is safe to assume that nothing happened at all. After all, the card works. And its performance is as it should be. And believe it or not, graphics cards do get warm when playing. That's why they have cooling on them. Cheers and have a nice day. And stop worrying for g*ds sake :D
 
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Install the official drivers from the official nvidia/amd site and run a game and check it for yourself, or you could run a benchmark and see how it goes. Also you may want to install Speedfan to measure your temperatures as well, if everything is working as intended then nothing happened.
 
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Thanks herrwizo. I dunno why, but you remind me of my stepdad the way you talk. He's a motorcycle wizard and you're a computer wizard hahaha. Okay so I have ONE last question if you would please answer it for me? So my GPU seems to be running good, I've had no bad errors or anything like that. But however, I did say the GPU gets pretty hot when running games. I played Battlefield 4 on some high settings for about 20 minutes, and I used GPU-Z to check the actual temperature of it. APPARENTLY according to that, it's hottest it seems to get is 75 degrees. Is this fine? Will this fry my GPU? I can tell it's pretty hot because I have thin side panels on my PC, transparent ones from the Corsair 300R windowed edition, and I can feel through the fan grill on the panel that it's warm, and if I actually touch the GPU at that point, it's pretty damn hot. Like, you wouldn't feel comfortable putting you finger on it for more than a few seconds. Do you think the program is accurate also?

 
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Thank you Rob :). And thanks everyone else who has answered and made me feel more at ease. I'm still a little bit wary, but much better now. The only problems I've had really is when I tried to install the newest driver from the Nvidia site, the screen is supposed to flash right? Well it flashed once, and then it went black and didn't turn back on. Had to do a few bad shut downs because of that. Turns out it's fine if I uninstall the old driver manually, and THEN install it.
 
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When the screen goes black during driver install. You shouldnt just turn off your computer, let it finish installing and the screen will come back.
 
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