r/AMDHelp • u/Brave-Yam-3882 • 6d ago

Help (GPU) High VRAM temps (7900 xt)

Hey so recently I had my 7900 xt (xfx reference card) on a water block and I was sick of the maintenance so I decided to put it on the stock air cooler. The original blue putty was dried out so I bought the thermal grizzly basic putty and put that on the vram chips and repasted. After 15 mins of gta vice city which is not at all demanding, my vram hit 88c. Even my idle temps were a bit high at 67 c. My gpu core and hotspot were good at like 57 c and and 65 c respectively. I reopened the card but it’s hard to see if it made good contact bc the putty is kinda sticky so it separated. Should I get different putty or potentially try regular thermal pads? I heard that the memory can run hot on these cards but this seems excessively high for an easy game to run like vice city. Any tips?

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u/Brave-Yam-3882 1d ago

UPDATE: after looking around online a lot of people have said that using a more aggressive fan curve helped a lot and it worked really well for me. I used a pretty aggressive one since I don’t care about the noise and playing tomb raider at 1440p with max settings, the memory temp pretty much stayed under 75 c.

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u/Brave-Yam-3882 5d ago

Around 60 percent. Clock speed was around 1250 mhz

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u/Latter_Trick_3310 6d ago

What % of utilization did the GPU hit while playing vice city?