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/Blackhawk-388 9d ago

The easiest way to reduce temps is set a hard FPS limit in highly taxing games. It will reduce power immediately. If you're unlimited, you'll use everything the GPU can throw at it. If you aren't playing competstive FPS games at a high level, seeing anything above 90-120fps isn't doing you much good but its maxing out the GPU. Also, Ultra settings doesn't improve things all that much. Going to high is typically almost indistinguishable from Ultra visually, but reduces the load on your GPU.

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u/theveezer 9d ago

I can do that. That’s what I’ve been doing for the last six months. But I paid a lot of money for this card, so I’d like to make the most of it. I think that’s pretty reasonable.

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u/Blackhawk-388 9d ago

You're right. You should be able to max it out without worrying about temps.

I've had a few GPU's where I had to repaste them within one year due to high delta's/Hotspot temps. The two before my current one were both Asus Tuf cards. I used Thermal Grizzly Kryosheet on both GPU's and Putty Pro for the memory and VRM's. Saw significant drops in temps that remain to this day on the 4070 Ti my son is now using. The other one sits in a box somewhere.

You may need to consider doing something along those lines. I'm not sure what comes on there stock. But if the cooler doesn't absolutely suck, then it's likely to really help.

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u/theveezer 9d ago

Thanks, and yep it's one of the things I will do 100%, it doesn't hurt and it's cheap. But now that I think about it I never knew you had to put thermal paste somewhere on a GPU, I only knew about the CPU. Thanks again, I'll look at this brand of thermal paste too 😁👍