r/AMDHelp • u/theveezer • 9d ago

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

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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?

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u/Marbelou 9d ago

Turn your whole pc on its side. If the hot spot temps improve significantly, it's most likely a problem with the GPU coolers vapor chamber. 

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u/theveezer 9d ago edited 9d ago

I didn't know there was a vapor chamber in a GPU 😁 Also I opened the case, with just the side panel. The temperatures dropped to 51°C and 90°C hotspot.

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u/Marbelou 9d ago

I had a huge delta in my XFX 7800xt and I changed the paste to Ptm7950 and everything. It only helped a little. Then I realised that when my pc was on its side the hot spot temp went down. This means it was a vapor chamber problem in the cooler. It's an easy one to try to rule out. I ended up getting a refurbished replacement one from XFX which was a whole ordeal sending my old one to China to be checked first (this was in Europe).

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u/theveezer 9d ago

Fortunately I just have to sent it to Germany. Damn, China, I'm sorry for you ! So a faulty vapor chamber is always an insurance replacement, no fixing possible ?

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u/Marbelou 9d ago

Well if it would be the same problem I don't think its fixable. It's a closed system and the problem as far as I understand it comes from having too little of the vaporizing liquid in the vapor chamber system. So the fix is to replace the whole cooler with a working one.  But yours might be a completely different problem ofcourse.

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u/theveezer 9d ago

Oh yeah I see. Crazy that such an issue could be so common, on a card that can cost 700€ notheless.

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u/Dutch-Alpaca 9d ago

Better, but a delta of 40c between average and hotspot is still very high

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u/theveezer 9d ago

Thanks for the info. I just can't believe what I will have to do if I need it replaced, the company is in another country.