Possible long-term GPU Damage!? Help Please!

Dogeisilluminati · Mar 30, 2016

Hello. I have a SAPPHIRE R9 390 video card and recently turned off the fans. Although, here's my story. So after a long session of gaming my fans seemed loud so I let them run for a bit; consequently, I ended up turning the speed to 0. Then I completely forgot I did that. What worries me most, is that I played a good 2-4 hours of games with my fans off and that I ruined my GPU. It took me a day just to figure out why my fps was so low and unstable. Can someone please help me with this by giving me a few symptoms of GPU damage. Or should I be okay. Also, does it lower my frame rate to protect my card or what?

jerdle · Mar 30, 2016

it should have realized the gpu was getting too hot and throttled the performance back, thus generating less heat. (and a dive in fps)

if you stop messing with the fans, and the performance is normal, it should be fine.

Gam3r01 · Mar 30, 2016

The card dropped its clock speeds once it hit ~90C to protect itself from damage. This would explain the low FPS.
Knowing that, if the system never shutdown you probably have nothing to worry about.
I would set your fan curve back and see how it runs, I doubt anything was damaged.
That being said, this is why I recommend never setting fans below 30% (Other than cards with auto off fans as those are temperature controlled to 0)

dudeman509 · Mar 30, 2016

As long as you aren't seeing weird on-screen glitches ("artifacting") or hearing sounds from the card itself, you're fine.

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