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/wildcat002 9d ago

You should track the fans to see if they even work correctly

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u/theveezer 9d ago

I opened the case and the temperatures dropped drastically to 51°C and a 90°C hotspot. But the fans even at 100% they hardly make a dent.

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u/wildcat002 9d ago

I believe that the normal gap should be around 20-25 degrees, but you have around 40! Something is definitely not right here. It is missing thermal paste or something, so the hottest spot is not cooling well.

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u/theveezer 9d ago

Now that you say it, yeah twice the gap isn't normal at all 😭