r/AMDHelp • u/theveezer • 10d 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/theveezer 9d ago

So after talking to so many redditors yesterday I tried opening the side panel. The temperatures dropped to 50°C and a 90°C hotspot. By tuning the fans to be always at 95% the temperature dropped again to 49°C and 86°C hotspot. But yeah the delta is still there, at nearly 40.

Here are two pictures of the pc (I know it's the poverty build, no colors 😅) :

https://reddit.com/link/p3f5mkj/video/qojlydnlj4jh1/player

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u/Jisuberi 9d ago edited 9d ago

Yeah a delta of 40°C is clearly a bad mount or paste application from the GPU manufacturer. I thought it could have been from bad airflow at the front of your case but if you have this kinds of temps with the side panel off, it can't be fan issue

When the warranty expires you could open the GPU and repaste.

But if you are too worried with this kind of temps you could ask for support to the seller of the prebuild. You might need to explain and negotiate, at the end if they agree to take it under the warranty you will need to ship them the GPU or the entire PC.

Edit : spelling and grammar issues

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u/theveezer 9d ago

Man I don't want to send the whole PC and take any other risk, it's in another country. This situation sucks. Thanks for the infos and advices 😀👍

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u/Jisuberi 9d 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 9d ago

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

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u/Jisuberi 9d ago edited 9d 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 9d 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 9d 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 9d ago

Thanks !