Ah... I just got a new one today as well. I unplugged my old one, and the plug decided to stay in the card. I tried to resolder, but the pads were ripped clean off the pcb.
This morning when I looked up for a GPU driver problem in a new build thread. The guy was talking about how MOM.exe was crashing often and so on, so forth.
I did the research, and someone had to post this:
It is only safe if you have dad.exe running along with it. Having only mom running is dangerous, unsafe and could prove that one is cheating on the other!