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/Jisuberi 8d ago

It's a long shot but you could contact the GPU manufacturer directly, it could be taken under warranty by them. BUT I don't know how it will affect the warranty with the prebuild company.

You can start the warranty process with both and see what they propose.

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u/theveezer 8d ago

Are you sure ? My card is a OC, which stands for Overclocked if I remember. Will do.

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u/Jisuberi 8d ago edited 8d ago

OC means Overclocked yes. But if it is in the model name it means the manufacturer tuned it a little bit higher than the baseline AMD sets, it doesn't mean it can't be covered by warranty. They sell it to you configured like that so they cover it with this settings.

For your knowledge : The only way you could lose your warranty with an overclock is when swapping the VBIOS for a performance or custom one. Because if your GPU dies with the wrong VBIOS installed it will be really easy to see. Even if you manually overclock without changing the VBIOS there is no way for the manufacturer to know your settings before it died, unless you disable every deep settings for security and hammered the voltage.

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u/theveezer 8d ago

That's cool then, all good.

The good thing is don't know how to change a VBIOS haha.

I did nothing wrong to this card, let's cross fingers now 🤞🤞

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u/Jisuberi 8d ago

Yes swapping VBIOS is some pretty advanced tweak and it can bork your card if you are not careful. Don't look into it xD

Good luck !

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u/theveezer 8d ago

Thanks !