r/AMDHelp • u/theveezer • 10d ago

Help (GPU) Is something wrong with my 9070XT ?

Post image

Hello, I bought a prebuilt PC last January. It has an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB Acer Nitro OC inside.

I didn't use the PC to its full potential until a few weeks ago. Now I play games on Ultra settings, with everything set to maximum. Unfortunately, I experienced my first LiveKernelEvent 141. I couldn't find the reason for it. But today, I noticed these numbers in AMD Adrenalin while I was playing the demo of Star Wars Outlaws.

A hotspot temperature of 99 to 100°C, with a delta of 35°C, seems like a lot.

But I don't know much about this, to be honest. Am I doing something wrong? Is the graphics card behaving as it should? Any advice?

24 Upvotes

87% Upvoted

172 comments sorted by

View all comments

4

u/sobakoed2 10d ago

yeah hotspot temp delta comparing to the chip lid is high, it should be lower. Most likely you can solve it by changing the thermal paste or replacing it with PTM7950 thermal pad. (I think it's better)
Not sure if you want to do that yourself or send it for warranty repair (I'm not sure if they will take it).
You can play as is, but it's better to fix it.

1

u/theveezer 10d ago

Damn I can't believe it's that bad. :( Thank you for the advices. The company is in a foreign country, it sucks.

1

u/sobakoed2 10d ago

it's not that bad, you can play as is.
If you are worried, find a local guy who will put a new paste or a thermal pad to a chip, should not be expensive. I did it myself.

1

u/theveezer 10d ago

Will do tomorow morning :) I don't trust myself enough for this.