Did I damage my msi gtx 970 (I'm an idiot)

[Matthew12106]

So I'd like to start this off by saying I'm a complete stupid idiot... Ok lets continue

 

So literally just received my MSI gtx 970 and installed it now. If any of you are familiar with the msi gtx 970 you will know two things one it has a 0db fan technology and two there is a sticker on the first fan that covers allot of the shroud that says REMOVE BEFORE GAMING. I think the reason this is there because it gives you a hint that the spans don't spin for a reason (because it's not under load not because their broken). So I am quite excited and as you can probably tell my now I installed it with the sticker on. So I did my first boot and when I was downloading the driver I was like hmm the fans shouldnt be spinning let me take a look . The fans were not spinning but Then my face when I see I left the sticker on I straight away take it off after shutting down and re-boot. So I noticed this it spins during the boot up and then it shuts off... So I'm guessing they were trying to spin in my first boot but they couldn't because of the sticker... Do you think I damaged the fan motor or something... Why am I so stupid

[chicksoup]

no, its fine

[Altecice]

No you wont have damaged anything. Modern hardware will reach a thermal trip limit and then shutdown your PC for safety. So if this did not happen and you weren't doing anything silly like bench testing all is ok

[Tafel_Kafel]

You didn't, the card didn't reach 60c so it stopped spinning

[Recon97]

Drop all the hype

-HardwareAfterMath Rule 101

[Jeroendedoem]

Well, sir I wish you good luck. And I've just ordered my gtx 970 and will be looking out with I'm doing twice...

[MadManMarsBar]

So I'd like to start this off by saying I'm a complete stupid idiot... Ok lets continue

 

So literally just received my MSI gtx 970 and installed it now. If any of you are familiar with the msi gtx 970 you will know two things one it has a 0db fan technology and two there is a sticker on the first fan that covers allot of the shroud that says REMOVE BEFORE GAMING. I think the reason this is there because it gives you a hint that the spans don't spin for a reason (because it's not under load not because their broken). So I am quite excited and as you can probably tell my now I installed it with the sticker on. So I did my first boot and when I was downloading the driver I was like hmm the fans shouldnt be spinning let me take a look . The fans were not spinning but Then my face when I see I left the sticker on I straight away take it off after shutting down and re-boot. So I noticed this it spins during the boot up and then it shuts off... So I'm guessing they were trying to spin in my first boot but they couldn't because of the sticker... Do you think I damaged the fan motor or something... Why am I so stupid

I dont think you would have damaged the fan motor , maybe load up a game and see if the spin up ? monitor your temps all the time tho

[Mateyyy]

I believe the fans only start spinning when the card reaches 65C or so.

 

Use something like MSI Kombustor and see if after a while the fans start spinning.

[Matthew12106]

I believe the fans only start spinning when the card reaches 65C or so.

 

Use something like MSI Kombustor and see if after a while the fans start spinning.

 

I believe the fans only start spinning when the card reaches 65C or so.

 

Use something like MSI Kombustor and see if after a while the fans start spinning.

 

I dont think you would have damaged the fan motor , maybe load up a game and see if the spin up ? monitor your temps all the time tho

 

No you wont have damaged anything. Modern hardware will reach a thermal trip limit and then shutdown your PC for safety. So if this did not happen and you weren't doing anything silly like bench testing all is ok

Alright to those of you talking about thermal stuff it doesn't spin until 60 or 65 whatever it still does spin up during booting I was just worried if the fan motor got damaged when It was trying to spin the first boot

[Altecice]

Alright to those of you talking about thermal stuff it doesn't spin until 60 or 65 whatever it still does spin up during booting I was just worried if the fan motor got damaged when It was trying to spin the first boot

 

It does that to clear dust from the heatsink... most new cards do that now.

[Enderman]

No you cannot damage those fan motors by stalling them.

[SeanBond]

That motor should be fine

[Matthew12106]

That motor should be fine

 

That motor should be fine

 

It does that to clear dust from the heatsink... most new cards do that now.

Thanks guys I was getting kinda worried

[RazrLeaf]

The motor is fine.  It's not strong enough to damage anything if the fan can't spin.

[Briggsy]

you ruined everything. 

 

nah, should be all good.

[Jeroendedoem]

I'm very happy for you.

[ImBleu]

I was lead to believe that the fans spin up during boot and then stop once you've booted. Almost like how case fans are at 100% during boot and how some graphics cards spin in the other direction on boot to clear out the dust. Put it through a Benchmark test and see if they spin

[Guest]

as long as it wasn't being impeded from spinning by the sticker for a very long period of time its probably fine

[blackadder]

A lot of people have removed the stickers. If anything did break Msi said they would cover it (rma). If it works you did everything right as others have said.

[RazrLeaf]

@Matthew12106 Apparently MSI is telling end users to RMA cards that came with stickers across the fan.  There's a thread about it in the Tech News & Reviews subforum.  I would link it for you, but my copy/paste doesn't work.

[SpittingLlama]

It does that to clear dust from the heatsink... most new cards do that now.

 AND IT FUCKING AWESOME! The other day I was cleaning out dust from my case. Cpu heatsink had a nice layer of dust. Gpu had nearly none. Except on the heat pipe.