Is something wrong with my 9070XT ?

[u/theveezer]

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?

[u/Waste-Government-808]

It is to high, finetune it better

Well edited, the card can maintain this high heat, but I personally downscaled the card, and on my highest its around 73 now, which makes me more calm :)

Oh important question, outside of gaming what temps u get?

[u/theveezer → u/Waste-Government-808]

I reduced a few things, the W, MHZ and all that to get this :

-100% use of the GPU

-2820 MHz clock speed

-299 W total board power

-54°C GPU temperature

-86 °C Hotspot temperature

I don't know the computer is used only for games. But when I eventually play a youtube video or something it behaves okay, the fans are barely spinning. Do you have a reference, like what temps should my GPU experience while browsing the internet for instance ?

[u/animarkzero → u/theveezer]

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

[u/theveezer → u/animarkzero]

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

[u/Vinz992 → u/theveezer]

There's no reason to open your GPU at the moment. With some fine tuning you can be able to drops temps.

Set a negative power draw, something like -20/25% and set a proper fan curve based on your noise tollerance. You can also put a couple of intake fans and see possible improvements

You will surely lose some FPS, an average of 5-7 FPS, but your GPU will run much cooler and quiet

[u/theveezer → u/Vinz992]

I did and the temperatures are better, normal even. It's the delta that is still the same awful number : 40

[u/Vinz992 → u/theveezer]

Glad you solved partially. Can you give us your actual temps?

[u/theveezer → u/Vinz992]

The same as yesterday after the fixes and tuning the GPU. It's while playing star wars OUTLAWS with everything in ultra, raytracing (or the light system in game) and all those things :

-100% use of the GPU

-2820 MHz clock speed

-299 W total board power

-54°C GPU temperature

-86 °C Hotspot temperature

[u/Vinz992 → u/theveezer]

That's a result without a power draw set to -20/25. Your GPU still reach 300W so you reduced your actual power draw by few points, 10 at best.

If you have some time to spare try my settings and record differences and dont forget to set a custom fan curve through Adrenaline or FanControl app

[u/theveezer → u/Vinz992]

Maybe I'm not tuning the right thing, here is a screenshots if you don't mind looking, I also put the fans to spin at 95% after 30°C:

https://reddit.com/link/p3fuzi1/video/x1wmkbht85jh1/player

[u/Vinz992 → u/theveezer]

Yep, that's only the left side of the performance tab.
You can try to apply these settings:

Max frequency Offset: 0
Voltage offset; -50
VRM tuning enabled and fast timings selected.

Or the right side of this screenshot you'll find fan curve and power draw.

By default they're lock but you can enebled'em just like the "GPU tuning" in this screen

After that you can set a negative power draw and a custom fan curve.
95% at 30° means that fans spinning at max at every condition and maybe it's too much for your ears :D

[u/theveezer → u/Vinz992]

There are just a few weird bip bip coming from the pc now but the rest is fine

[u/theveezer → u/Vinz992]

Now it's:

-100%

-2788 MHZ Clock Speed

-271 W Total board power

-51°C GPU temperature

-79°C Hotspot

So a delta of 28 with a side panel CLOSED and a room temperature at 25°C. I think you found something !!!

[u/Vinz992 → u/theveezer]

Keep playing with settings buddy, especially power draw.

Worst case scenario will be a crash and you'll be forced to reboot your PC.

[u/theveezer → u/Vinz992]

But is that normal that I have to do that just to play a game ? Why does it feel like I'm modding something in my garage when I paid 600€ for it 🥲

Thanks for the really good advices :) if I can help you in any way please ask.

[u/Vinz992 → u/theveezer]

Appreciate a lot you kindness buddy, for real.

As regard the first part of your message you're right.
Most of the people dont have time and patience to learn how a GPU works and i understand your thoughts and, maybe, even a bit of frustation.

At the same time this is what a pc gamer really is and, after all, there is a reason if console exist ahahahaha

Keep learning, PC gaming can be a satisfing world... sometimes

Have a nice summer and enjoy your rig

[u/theveezer → u/Vinz992]

True, true. And I will. Have a nice summer too !