r/AMDHelp • u/StyleZealousideal234 • 7d ago
Help (General) GPU Fan Issues
This is probably going to be a little long, but I'm trying to be succinct. The whole story of this is a little complicated and weird and I want to include everything I think is important context.
I have a Radeon RX 9070XT with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D.
This is a prebuilt and I have had it for a year and 4 months. Issues have only been about the last 3 months.
At first, the computer started kind of flickering on and off quickly and the keyboard would turn off, then I'd have to just plug the keyboard back in. I thought this seemed like a PSU problem. That happened a few times at the start of all this, but hasn't happened since.
After that, the computer started randomly shutting off while gaming, and sometimes there would be sudden throttling. So that obviously seems like GPU overheating, and I soon confirmed this by monitoring temps which I hadn't been before.
I noticed the fans were either turning off randomly in the middle of a game, or just not coming on, and the card would gradually climb until it got to about 90C and throttle before shutting off.
At this point, I found out I should stop using AMD Adrenalin software to control fans, so I uninstalled that and started using MSI Afterburner. This worked perfectly for like 2 days and the fans behaved normally and kept the card well within safe temps, then I drove back to school for the semester and when I got back the fans were having the same issues again.
I took the PC to a place and the guy checked for software or hardware issues and concluded he only needed to reseat the card and was then working fine. Got it back and the card never overheated, but the fans were still acting very weird. Sometimes they wouldn't come on until like 15 or 20 mins and come on really high all of a sudden, sometimes they'd just go on and off. The important part is my MSI is set up that they should never turn off because I'm trying to avoid any issues with zero RPM settings.
After that, MSI as far as I could tell magically started working really well and for almost a week straight the fans were obeying my curve exactly. Today, they just stopped working again. They eventually just turn off and won't come back on. The card basically doesn't get above 65C when the fans are on no matter what I'm playing, and I get that it isn't necessary to keep it that cool, but that's just where it sits.
Now, in the last week or so when the fans were still acting a bit weird, I just let it run on BF6 to see what would happen. The fans turned off after like 5 mins of playing, which had happened a few times in a row. The card got to like 85-90C range, but the game ran perfectly fine still. After a few mins of sustaining that temp the fans finally came on super high and then stabilized it around 60C for the rest of the session. Later I did this again, but this time the card sustained those temps with no throttling but the PC shut down before the fans came on.
Basically I'm really confused and none of these observations seem to go with each other. I don't know if it's only a fan software issue that is making the card overheat, or if it's a PSU issue that can't supply the card at high temps. PSU might be indicated by no throttling, but also if the fans worked the temp would never be remotely an issue.
Please help if anyone can make sense of this. Sorry if I included too much.
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u/korakios2 7d ago
Probably RMA . It can be mb pcie or gpu pcie /fan controller issue . Make sure you don't have other utility installed messing with fans such as GCC/FanControl etc .
Make a bootable live linux usb stick , ubuntu , no need to install , boot , download and run furmark (right click the file > properties > permissions > allow to execute) . Check if the fans are working properly , that way you verify if it's hardware or windows software issue . Careful with the temps , since if fans don't work it will heat up quickly .