GPU going bad?

[NerevarineX]

Hello, I've an R9 280X (sapphire's dual-x) and one of my fan's were physically loosened and wouldn't work as it was supposed to, i didn't have enough time to fix it so i kept it that way, been playin' Crysis 2 first, found out that my card had reached 95c, i kept my room Air conditioner on after that, and it was normal, and recently playing the witcher 3, my temperatures had reached 95c-96c when i checked , perhaps 97c too?, after examining me'card, saw that both the fans stopped working(physically both, i'll fix that tomorrrow), but I've been having another problem:

Sometimes when playing a game(specifically TW3) my frames would drop from 35-40 to 20, then a few minutes later it would drop to 10, I quit the game and I benchmarked me gpu and the scores were really really low (novabench, gpu score - 5 , 27 frames, normally 1500 and my cpu's bottleneck would not let it above 1500+) and i restarted my pc , it was normal but then i encountered the same problem, i restarted it again and then it would be fine, this happens sometimes now, 50-60% of the time. i'll fix me'fan tomorrow but i need to know is my card okay?

 

[killianbell]

So, are you trying to use the card without any cooling at all? It's probably just overheating and throttling. Why not fix the fans and then do the benchmarks and testing? Trying to use the card without any fans is a pretty silly idea.

 

[NerevarineX]

So, are you trying to use the card without any cooling at all? It's probably just overheating and throttling. Why not fix the fans and then do the benchmarks and testing? Trying to use the card without any fans is a pretty silly idea.

and so i thought, i'll fix them tomorrow and I'll post the results here on Tuesday, but are you sure it's not damaged?

 

[killianbell]

Well, maybe it is now, but it's impossible to tell if you're trying to test it without any cooling. It's never going to max out and give you normal benchmarks if it's overheating. I would recommend taking out of your PC altogether until the fans are fixed. It won't be doing the card any good.

 

[NerevarineX]

Well, maybe it is now, but it's impossible to tell if you're trying to test it without any cooling. It's never going to max out and give you normal benchmarks if it's overheating. I would recommend taking out of your PC altogether until the fans are fixed. It won't be doing the card any good.

Been testing me'gpu, it's actually performing normal,so yeah, it was just overheating and throttling, and thank god it is not damaged (it may be but not noticeable)