It won't hurt it at all to leave it at 60c & under with 0% fan.
EVGA has long since fixed the thermal pad issue, Unless you somehow managed to get a card that's sat on the shelf for ages..
Quote (Nixon514 @ Mar 31 2017 02:48pm)
evga 08g-p4-6173-kr
spoke with evga. have to run precison xoc - fans on custom profile idling at now 34 degress.
Afterburner is the program most people use.