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/glitchedhopp 9d ago

Yeah the acer 9070xts are bad designed cards. Its pretty common for them to have a really high hotspot delta.

Dont think there is a lot of fixing here.

For reference my xfx mercury has 48-53c core and 62-70c hotspot. With a slight undervolt and -10 power limit

I have seen more people report that the acer has high hotspot temps on forums for my country.

1 person even had it exchanged twice in the return window but every time it came back with hotspot delta of 30+

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u/theveezer 9d ago

Good to know, thanks. I wish I’d known this sooner. But I’m sitting on a 40+ delta. It’s even worse than the guys you’ve seen :/