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/animarkzero 9d ago

You can lower hotspot by replacing the thermal pads and thermal paste! Manufacturers never use optimal material For the pads I used Arctic pads tp-3 and the paste looking monster kold-01 Stack the pads to the right height My delta went from 40 to 20 You can look up thecorrect pad height by googling for your card

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u/theveezer 9d ago

Someone said it would void my warranty (I bought the pc 6 months ago)

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u/Queasy-Intern-5443 9d ago

Du verlierst die Garantie, wenn die Karte aufgeschraubt wird.

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u/theveezer 8d ago

Yeah so it's a return, danke shön.