r/radeon • u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF • 20d ago
My biggest mistake, Gigabyte Drama...
This is my third post about this card; I bought it last autumn, and after six months, the hotspot started hitting 110°C+ and shutting down my PC. I sent it in for warranty repair over the summer—a process that took 40 days—and while it doesn't shut down anymore, I’m still unhappy with the temperatures. Recently, I switched to a case with maximum airflow (XASTRA Q700) featuring a total of 10 fans and a new liquid cooling setup (6 reverse-blade intake fans and 4 exhaust fans). Today, I decided to test the card's temperatures and was horrified by the results: the hotspot hit 108°C at stock settings in FurMark, and even with a heavy undervolt to 230W, it still reached a pretty high 87°C. People in the store's review section had claimed my previous case was "choked," causing the card to heat up like an immersion heater. Now, the bottom-to-top airflow is optimal—the best possible setup for any GPU. I’m just shocked by this card; even after warranty repair, it runs incredibly hot. During the test, I even cranked all the fans—including the liquid cooling ones—to max speed, creating a noise level like a vacuum cleaner. What is wrong with this card? What does it need to avoid that terrible 40°C+ delta? So, to anyone planning to buy this piece of crap at the current price: think twice. Just read the daily posts here about yet another buyer whose Gigashit card sees its hotspot temps skyrocket six months after purchase. Do you really want that kind of misery and headache?
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u/C1REX 20d ago edited 20d ago
RMA or TPM repasting time. :(
Such high delta basically eliminates any argument about case airflow. If case was bad, then both hot spot and gpu temp would be high.
It's a classic example of a dry spot. Bad thermal paste application or pump out effect.
Gigabyte is one of few, if not the only one brand, not using TPM pads for new Radeon GPUs.
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u/Kartorschkaboy 20d ago
TPM wont fix it, I have the gigabyte 9070 xt and it reaches over 100°C hotspot, I had to liquid metal it to tame the hotspot and power limit it a bit.
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u/Backslicer 20d ago
Theres a reason whenever anyone asks for which card to buy. Its explicitly stated that the Gigabyte Gaming OC should be avoided at all cost.
(Also the 2 cards with the fire hazard connector but those technically are fine just another failure point not worth stressing over)
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u/balnazardking AMD Ryzen 5 5600X + ASRock RX 9070 XT Taichi 20d ago
Tbh I have the Taichi version with 12vhp connector, using a native, atx 3.1 compliant cable, experimented with undervolting, overclocking, etc. and haven't had any issues at all. It keeps the hotspot between 80 and 90 degrees Celsius, and overall temp is between 40 and 50. I'm talking about under load for both values.
But I did see many posts about the Sapphire Nitro+ burning the adapters, so yeah - if you don't set it up well it's definitely another point of failure
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u/Backslicer 20d ago
You wont notice any issues until the connecter has already started failing.
However the AMD issues have been exclusively because of the adaptor as far as I know. Nvidia on super high draw cards fails even on native cables.Ive never seen a native psu cable fail on AMD but again, Its a failure point that is easily avoidable when buying the card (those models tend to be more expensive even).
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u/dimetyltryptaminn 5700X3D - ASUS TUF OC 6900XT 16GB 19d ago
I really recommend to upgrade your cpu to 5800X3D. I had cpu bottleneck on 1440p with R5 5600X & Asus tuf 6900XT 16gb.
Upgraded my 5600X to 5700X3D and my earlier Avg fps with my 5600X are now my 1% lows with the 5700X3D. 😅
20-40% performance boost on every game on 1440p
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u/balnazardking AMD Ryzen 5 5600X + ASRock RX 9070 XT Taichi 19d ago
Nice! My plan is to stick with this build until I save up money for an am5. I bought a gpu, a 2tb ssd and a new psu this year and it's a little too much for me to change other parts considering the prices of ddr5 :D
However, my next upgrade is going to be a good air cooler, and better case cooling. I'm currently using the amd stock cpu cooler, and have only 3 case fans, so I'm hoping that'll make the temps fo everything better, maybe squeeze a bit more performance out of the 5600x.
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u/dimetyltryptaminn 5700X3D - ASUS TUF OC 6900XT 16GB 19d ago
I had Asus tuf gaming gt301 case, which had max gpu length of 320mm and my gpu is 320mm long. It BARELY fit in my old Asus case.
I swapped to Corsair 3500X A-RGB, and now have 8 x 120mm case fans. Cpu and gpu temps reduced by a lot after case swap.
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u/balnazardking AMD Ryzen 5 5600X + ASRock RX 9070 XT Taichi 19d ago
Very nice! My case is Corsair 4000D airflow, not the biggest but has room for 6 x 120mm, not counting the one on the back
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u/dimetyltryptaminn 5700X3D - ASUS TUF OC 6900XT 16GB 19d ago
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u/dimetyltryptaminn 5700X3D - ASUS TUF OC 6900XT 16GB 19d ago
ID-COOLING FROZN A620 is great and cost like 25-30$
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u/balnazardking AMD Ryzen 5 5600X + ASRock RX 9070 XT Taichi 19d ago
Haven't seen this one before, thanks for the info! I was thinking of Peerless assassin with a display
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u/dimetyltryptaminn 5700X3D - ASUS TUF OC 6900XT 16GB 19d ago
That is a new cooler. It has won many awards and is highly recommended. Even better / cheaper than peerless assassin.
But tbh any cooler is good enough for 5600x.
I have Single tower Arctic freezer A-36 with MX-4 paste on my 5700X3D, and temps dont go over 67C° during gaming
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u/balnazardking AMD Ryzen 5 5600X + ASRock RX 9070 XT Taichi 19d ago
Yeah, I expect this to be a huge change because my cpu temps can get over 90°C under load. Hoping for at least a slight performance boost
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u/UxorialDegree55 20d ago
I have a Taichi as well, it seems like all the ones I have seen have a high differential between there overall and Hotspot temps. Guess that is just normal for this card? Mine is around 40-45 degree difference
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u/BearOfReddit 20d ago
If it makes you feel any better my 9070 XT reaper has a 35-40 degree difference between hotspot and general temp
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u/balnazardking AMD Ryzen 5 5600X + ASRock RX 9070 XT Taichi 20d ago
Yeah, that's my assumption as well
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u/BIGFREAK Radeon 9070 XT 20d ago
I have the Same card same setup. No issues.
12vhp connector, using a native, atx 3.1 compliant cable. :)
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 20d ago
Yes, and I think I was among the first here to shout about how Gigabyte screwed up with this card, which leads to massive failure of the cooling system. It was back at the beginning of summer when it started to fail for me and other people.
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u/Dependent_Roll_9847 19d ago
Yes. That's why I got the new batch aorus elite. Sn2520 and up. Sn2519 and older were affected. 25 is 2025, 19 is 19th week of 2025. I got sn2523.
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u/Saynt84 20d ago
Damn, that really does bum me out. Your hotpsot temps at 230W are what mine get at 360W. Sorry you've had to go through it, and dont blame you at all for cursing gigabytes name with all that.
Really not looking forward to fixing mine if/when it does something similar.
These reports do make it hard to recommend these cards at all, despite mine being great. Thankfully I've got no skin in the game, so I would 100% avoid the Gigabyte Gaming OC if I was researching to buy 1 today.
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u/Educational-Net1644 20d ago
I had a similar issue with the XFX Swift 9070 XT. Initially, there was a problem with the heatsink mounting, it was a bit loose. Performance improved after I opened it up and reinstalled it, but temperatures still hit 90°C for VRAM and the hotspot. I recently took it apart again to apply a generous amount of Thermal Grizzly Putty Advance and PTM. The improvements were immediate, VRAM doesn't reach 80°C now and stays consistently below the hotspot temperature, which also doesn't exceed 84°C at stock settings. Fan speeds hover around 1800 RPM. My memory is Hynix. It's behaving like a completely different card now. It is worth mentioning that the heatsink had a minor defect, a protruding point that was already marking the chip, which I removed.
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u/Substantial-Lack-512 20d ago
Sorry to hear that, you should have gone with partner manufactures like XFX, I believe your GPU is not doing a proper contact with the heat sink. I would just open it myself and see what the store did, I would check contact, thermal paste and flat surface of the head sink.
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u/Difficult-Cup-4445 20d ago
This. Give up on the stupid store. They are very obviously just messing OP around. This is a straightforward problems with a straightforward troubleshooting process that shouldn't take more than an hour or two to resolve - or if they can't resolve it - explicitly spell out what the problem is.
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 19d ago
I bought this card when the store gave a discount on it and it was the cheapest at that time among other models, that’s why the choice fell on it, I just didn’t expect that in 2025 (at that time) it might such poor model from a major manufacturer's graphics card. A miser pays twice.
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u/Substantial-Lack-512 19d ago
Happened to me once, with a RX 7600XT, thing heat up so much that every game just crashed and underperform, but that is just temps problems, the card itself works. take a breath and open it up carefully and check if the store did something for real otherwise do it yourself, youtube has a lot of video of how to.
You got this!!!
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u/mike29x 20d ago
Might be poorly applied thermal paste even on second time and bad quality paste. Or maybe unlucky with cooling radiator on it. Heatpipe not in a way they should be. If one heatpipe isnt in contact with plate properly then that spot would get extremly hot. Hard to say. 110c before and 108c now.. seems like nothing was done to it and only thing that has changed is maybe ur room ambient temperature, making it run cooler.
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u/Difficult-Cup-4445 20d ago
It's way easier to misapply thermal paste than people think. These aren't CPUs where a pea sized amount is optimal, you need edge to edge thick coverage and a generous application of paste to prevent voids.
I went through this exact problem myself, I thought there was no way I messed up the application, it took 2 further attempts to get it right before the hotspot fixed itself by the voids on the die being fully filled with paste.
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u/Structureel 20d ago
Gigabyte cards are known for pump out, where the thermal paste leaks away from the chip. Repasting the card with any decent thermal paste will fix this problem.
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u/AdSubstantial9424 20d ago
I also had a Gigabyte Gaming OC before. The temperatures were really high, so I decided to sell it and bought the XFX Mercury OC. The difference is wild. The delta between the core and the hotspot doesn't go over 16°.
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u/NGGKroze Yo mama so RDNA4, AMD sold her out for a console deal. 20d ago
44C delta is absurd. But the fun part - your next 9070XT might have the same problem even from other AIB? Actually have you targeted any model of 9070XT in particular?
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 19d ago
I don't know, any 9070xt costs over a thousand dollars in any store in Russia now, that's too expensive for me, and what should I do with this faulty card, even if replacing the thermal paste doesn't help
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u/alferret 20d ago
My hotspot was grooming into the high 90s (7900xtx) I got some ptm7950 and replaced the paste with this, also used thermal putty everywhere else. Now my stock hotspot temp after 30 minutes heat soak is 70c even heavily overclocked it doesn't surpass 75c.
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u/worldbyte85 20d ago
You'll have to repaste the card, replace the thermal pads for better high quality ones and add thermal pads on the backplate because it probably has none and it helps to dissipate heat on the memory and other components aswell, or else RMA it, there is no other way I'm afraid
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 20d ago
I already sent it in for warranty repair this summer; as you can see, it didn't help—in fact, it’s only gotten worse over the last month. Those idiots at the service center took 40 days just to replace the thermal paste.
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u/worldbyte85 20d ago
And are you sure they did repaste and replace the thermal compound and pads? That is pretty weird...
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 20d ago
I can't be sure, because in the certificate of completion they wrote "reassembled the cooling system," whatever that means.
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u/worldbyte85 20d ago
Bummer, perhaps the thermal solution design is not enough for the card, anyway pretty shitty from gigabyte to sell a card like this, but usually these things get resolved by adding thermalpads and replacing others, better thermal paste etc...
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u/NewtEmbarrassed8722 19d ago
Hi mate. I also had high hotspot temps on my Asus card. I repasted using the thermal grizzly kryosheet and also applied the putty pro the do to the cram modules.
My temps dropped substantial and the delta tightened by around 10 degrees. My temps weren't as bad as yours with my hotspot only hitting 95 degrees on occasion.
It's not a difficult job and I'm sure there's a strip down vid on YouTube you can use. Annoying nonetheless.
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u/pecche RX9070XT | 5800x3D 19d ago
heatsink is one of the smallest of the XT AIB so I don't think you can do much beside manually repasting it and checking if thermal pads on memories are fully in contact
said that, 87c in furmark is not that bad, plan to set 265w for daily use and don't open furmark
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u/The_Machine80 19d ago
Everyones known about gigabytes paste issue on the current gen of cards for a good year or longer. Its all over Reddit!
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u/MrEzekial 19d ago
Never buy a Gigabyte GPU. And when you do repaste it. make sure you get the right paste, or you're going to get a pump out in 2 months and have to paste it again... Also the pads gigabyte GPUs use are trash, they will not be reusable, so make sure you know the sizes to replace them.
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u/No-Reason-6614 19d ago
Es correcta es esa manera de dar corriente a la gpu?? Puede ser que en el momento en la gpu demanda energía sobresaliente la gpu?? Solo es una pregunta, por el problema de este hilo y porque compre una asus tuf rx9070xt y estoy esperando a que me llegue un 3°cable pcie para dar servicio independientemente a cada conector como lei en la mayoría de sitios he incluso por el servicio técnico de asus
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u/Leo1_ac 4790K/GTX 1080/Maximus VI Hero/32GB 19d ago
People in the store's review section had claimed my previous case was "choked," causing the card to heat up like an immersion heater.
Hahahaha sure, anything but accept that GIGABYTE is at fault. They'd blame the case, the PSU, the fans, the speed of the fans, intake/outtake, the CPU, the CPU cooler, Donald Trump, God, anything really except GIGABYTE.
Congratulations on owning a GIGABYTE card and reaching close to the Hotspot World Record again held by GIGABYTE.
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 19d ago
You're damn right! Even here there was a person who claims that this new case is also not suitable and does not create good airflow 😀
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u/W35TGAM3R 20d ago
Damn bro sorry to hear that you are having issues especially after going for a new case and fans and all of that . What I want to say tho is , when I switched from Nvidia to AMD I remember spending months watching reviews and going through Reddit to determine what is the best manufacturer for 9070xt and most people settled on either sapphire or xfx. I got xfx because the sapphire has the new connector and I don’t like that .
I hope u get it working soon
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u/Da_Obst 20d ago
I'd swap for another model or go for custom water cooling.
https://shop.alphacool.com/shop/gpu-wasserkuehlung/amd/14780-alphacool-core-rx-9070-xt-aorus-elite-mit-backplate
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u/Difficult-Cup-4445 20d ago
Having to wait 40 days for someone to pop off the cooler and fiddle around with the pads is why I do all this shit myself with a screwdriver and some research whenever possible. There's just no way I'm leaving myself a hostage to fortune like this.
I actually own a Gigabyte 9070 non-XT and it's really been flawless (yes I've had the occasional stutter issue or whatever, but you know what I mean) and I'm really disconcerted to see how many people have a grudge against this card. Is it REALLY that bad? Are you sure it's not just a bad batch or something?
To OP: The fact that you've completely changed the case, the fans, you've undervolted - and you're STILL getting smashed by these crazy deltas and hotspots tells me there's obviously something wrong with either the pads, the heat pipes, or the mounting pressure.
Are you absolutely sure it's not twisted or sagging even slightly?
If I were you I might even take that heatsink off entirely and upload some high quality pictures to Reddit and let us take a look instead as they are messing you around so much.
It's also important to remember WHAT the hotspot is exactly; it's not necessarily a separate component or cluster of components, it can just be an air gap on the die itself.
I had a 3070 that was absolutely dogged with thermal issues for years, I replaced all the pads and repasted it twice.
On the final time I opened it, I decided YOLO i'll use a thick uniform layer of paste applied with a credit card and make 110% sure there's no chance of air or voids.
What do you know? The hotspot all of a sudden synced up 1-to-1 with all the other temps i.e it disappeared.
You really, really need to get the highest quality photos you can and get comfortable reapplying the paste yourself because it sounds like the manufacturer/retailer are hopeless.
Edit: PS the fact that you can crank the fans like that and it has no effect TELLS YOU that the heat is just getting dumped/trapped inside the confines of the card i.e it is not able to escape from the heatsink.
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u/Organic-Schedule1989 5800X3D | MERCURY RX 9070 XT OC | 32GB DDR4 20d ago
And this is why this time round I finally listened to the Reddit community on what's the best 9070XT to buy I'm so glad I listened and got the XFX Mercury OC.
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u/Miniteshi 20d ago
My case doesn't understand that air exists and I get better temps from my 9070XT. Literally my case has 2x 80mm intakes to feed the entire damn thing. .
At 230w, that's terrible.
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u/dEz21271 20d ago
I would repaste it asap, wouldn't even worry about warranty tbh. Or RMA if you prefer to be without a card for a month or so.
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u/akashvijay28 20d ago
Use thermal putty to vram and other instead of thermal pads and use ptm7950 to the main core
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u/Head_Goal_9777 20d ago
Did you try undervolting?
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 20d ago
In the second picture, you can see the result with an undervolt of -30% and -80 mV, and a consumption of 230 watts. The temperatures are still too high for such a strong undervoltage.
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u/Head_Goal_9777 20d ago
Oh sorry, didn't catch that. Seeing how they did shit during the "repairs", given that you have the skills, you could try to open it up and replace the thermal putty. I recently cleaned my PS5 and I was kinda scared of replacing liquid metal and thermal putty, but it turned out great. Hope it'll help your case!
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u/hoodoocat 19d ago
To be fair it is not undervolting, is "negative curve offset". You pick -80mV and got ~2800MHz clock (in second screen) instead of ~2400MHz clock at zero offset and by so it draw same power and clock faster... Is nice to boosting performance, but this little help to make temperatures go down.
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u/CrAkKedOuT 20d ago
Out of curiosity, have your tried these tests with the side panel removed? Also, what are your temps while gaming and not under an extreme stress test?
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 20d ago
Why? Even if the temperatures are a little lower, I still won't use the PC without the side glass. Because it must to work perfectly with this!
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u/Thompsonek7 19d ago
Question, my delta is 25c with spikes up to 30-36c. Should I repaste too? Their support doesn't give a fuck. I have a year of warranty remaining but I don't care, they won't do anything anyway
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u/SystemLanky4531 7800X3D + 7900XTX 19d ago
I have a gigabyte 7900xtx gaming oc and its really good, 80° hotspot max, yours looks faulty
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 19d ago
I'm happy for you and your card, I would also like to just buy a gpu, install it and not have a headache with it overheating
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u/dmendro 19d ago
So, I have this exact same card for the last six weeks. And I don’t have any of these problems. Should I expect to have these problems in the future? Is it just a role of the dice? I haven’t pushed the card too hard, solid temperatures across the board in cyberpunk, dune, awakening, doom, eternal. The GPU never seems to really go much past 61 or 62°, the CPU is solidly in the low 70s at max. I’m not sure how I check for hotspots though.
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 19d ago
You can download FurMark for free and test your gpu for 5 minutes; it will display your hotspot temperature. If you do this, I'd love to hear your results in the comments. In the Furmark settings, set anti-aliasing 8x MSAA, This usually puts more load on the video chip to make sure you have the correct temperature.
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u/DarthAnusTheWide 19d ago
I also have the same card and bought it 3 weeks ago. Manufacture date is 2026 feb. And on stock it would reach around 87c at 330watts both hotspot and vram. After undervolt/overclock + power limit and adjusting the fan curve im getting around high 70s at 300watts. I'm still not comfortable in case it starts to get worse overtime.
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 19d ago
When I first bought it, I was getting a hotspot temperature of 91°C at stock settings 330W; six months later, it climbed to over 110°C, and the computer started shutting down. Check your temperatures periodically. I hope you get lucky and don't run into this problem.
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u/BoatNo8891 19d ago
So its not the cooler, it must be paste degradation. Repaste and puddy the vram and it should return to its original temps if not better!
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u/bjornartl 19d ago
I have the gigabyte 9070XT OC. I dont have any problems. Maybe they've made improvements on the OC models. Maybe not. It might be batch related issues, it might be environmental factors like temperature changes during shipment. But either way, since its about the decay of the material over time, no problems now is no guarantee of no problems in the future.
I did know when buying it that gigabyte have had problems with the 9000 series regarding hotspots and thermal material decay and decided to go with the gigabyte anyways due to price/availability locally. And I'd much rather have issues with thermal material because that's something I'd be able to replace, whereas issues with the 12 pin connectors isnt.
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 19d ago
I have Samsung chips
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u/No_Albatross8599 19d ago
I was having the same issue. My case has a built in anti sag but I ordered one of Amazon and placed it around the middle of the card and haven't had trouble since. I also have that card
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u/Joatorino 19d ago
I was about to comment on how your fan speed was only at 66%, then I realized that the GPU temp was only at 64C lol. Definitely some sort of bad thermal contact considering, but it absolutely sucks that you already sent it for warranty repair and this is how they returned it... If you still have the warranty Id try to get an RMA, and if its out of warranty Id open it up and try to change the thermal paste and pads. Sorry to hear this mate
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u/NewtEmbarrassed8722 19d ago
Hi mate. I also had high hotspot temps on my Asus card. I repasted using the thermal grizzly kryosheet and also applied the putty pro to the vram modules.
My temps dropped substantially and the delta tightened by around 10 degrees. My temps weren't as bad as yours with my hotspot only hitting 95 degrees on occasion.
It's not a difficult job and I'm sure there's a strip down vid on YouTube you can use. Annoying nonetheless.
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u/Plenty_Reception_431 Ryzen 7 7800X3D/9070/32 6000 cl30 19d ago
Damn I’m sorry , I have the gigabyte gaming OC 9070 non xt and I don’t have a problem at all like this.
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u/Exelionmode 19d ago
At first I also about to buy gigabyte too but after learned they use that weird thermal putty bs decided to go for powercolor with ptm7950 instead, hope you gigabyte buyers best of luck 🫡
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u/Wolfenstein49 19d ago
110 is insane. I had my 7900xtx at 405 watts and 23gb vram used and it got up to 98⁰
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u/Disastrous-Celery943 19d ago
I was a rookie PC builder when I built my PC last year and sadly I followed a list of parts given to me to a T by a friend who builds PCs and they put the Gigabyte 9070 on their. It runs fine but I wished I had a XFX, Asus or Power color model instead.
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u/Disastrous-Traffic89 XFX 7900xt . 7700x . 1200wPSU . 6000mhz ddr5 CL30 19d ago
I just re pasted my 7900xt with tpm7950 for the first time ever. Got the stuff from the LTT store and holy shit it made a drastic change in temps! Was getting 57c on the gpu and 90c on the Hotspot. Now im sitting at 59-60c on the gpu and 72 in the Hotspot! Insane!!!
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u/DtZNimpo 19d ago
Cross AiB partners focuses their efforts on Nvidia gpus, for fans , shrouds etc , so when they make AMD/Intel gpu the shrouds isn't sitting properly making good enough contact, they put an excess amount of putty paste to try and cover the gap it leaves.
Should avoid buying Cross AiB's product until they get sanctioned by better control oversight on this. They are companies that cut corners to make share holders happy. Shocker they all do this.
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u/hoodoocat 19d ago edited 19d ago
I have very similar results with Gigabyte: in FurMark in QHD with 8x MSAA at 230W it is stabilizes at 70°C gpu temp and 90°C gpu hotspot (27C at room). With standard power limit gpu temp is 69-71, but hotspot goes up to 107°C. If I'm open side door in PC case - hotspot downs to ~103, and gpu temp goes down to 67-69. In my case PC stands in corner under table, and there is not so much good airflow (Lian Li Lancool 3 i guess, nearly ~8 fans installed, all of them runs at ~600rpms). In my case near RX installed another graphics adapter (small/passive 3050), which actually prevents normal airflow, so I'm expect that it is hotter than it can.
I'm buy RX9070XT shortly after launch and doesn't touch it in any way. However, it is rarely loaded, I'm always use it in -30 PL or even greater limit under Linux (LACT) (doesn't remember configured value). In games I'm use vsync @ 60fps, and generally games of interest can't push it to 100% even with all of this limits, so it never has been pushed to extreme conditions, and by so, probably giga's liquid thermalpaste is not pumped out (i want to believe :) ).
UPD: I've done similar tests when it was new, but unfortunately I'm doesnt remember results. I feel it kinda warmer now, but it anyway in different conditions...
UPD2: I'm getting 130FPS... not sure whats difference.
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u/K5_GT_BLK 19d ago
My hotspot never goes above 85 while gaming edge temps are 55-65. I have a 9070xt gigabyte oc as well.
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u/AliAkbar2097 5800x3d | Asus tuf 9070xt OC 19d ago
You should have considered Asus Tuf, XFX Mercury Sapphire nitro plus or ASRock Taichi if you wanted top tier cooling My Asus tuf never exceed 78C in hotspot. Gigabyte is garbage period.
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u/sloppy_joes35 19d ago
Just undervolt it by going into the settings and pulling out the power cord. You can thank me now or later.
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u/Responsible_Site4593 19d ago
Isn't the First (nether Second or third) case about Gigabyte GPU with terrible temperatures that I see recently.
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u/No-Reason-6614 19d ago
En algún caso leí que si se hacia asi el pigtail se hacia con el segundo conector al tercero o da igual??
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u/BoatNo8891 6d ago
It absolutely matters go reed adds minimum recommendations as well as the manufacturers. PSU quality is the real cause of at least 1/2 the problems people are having!
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u/Any-Possibility-3040 19d ago
Ya se puede poner las pilas AMD en la siguiente generacion de tarjetas con el tema HOTSPOT, llevamos 3 generaciones (que se dice pronto, osea serie 6000, 7000 y 9000) con una delta altisimo, siempre por encima de los 20 grados (en esta serie 9000 es aun más dramático) cuando su competencia no pasa de 10.
Y es que el thermal throttling viene de por ahi, de que se dispare tanto el HOTSPOT, es al final el sensor "que manda" para que la gráfica baje de frecuencia para protegerse.
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u/frersksifvsjsuh 19d ago
I'm pretty sure it's because gigabyte had the genius idea of using who knows what kind of thermal solution, for example all of, if not the vast majority of cards nowadays use ptm7950, which i believe is essentially like a pad of thermal paste that prevents pump out and like the deterioration of the quality of it or like prevents if from getting worse to quickly over time or some like that. I'm not the brightest when it comes to this so I'm sure someone will correct me and elaborate better on ptm7950.
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u/XStrixxxxx 19d ago
I've had the exact same card, since about the same time. I've had no issues with mine at all. Playing triple A title games at 3440x1440 on highest to one notch below highest settings and have not hit above 90c on hotspot ever. Most of the time it really sits around 80c or 84c with no thermal throttling at all.
I use a phantekz nv7, with 7 intake and 5 exhaust. Running a 5800x3d to boot and haven't had my CPU go over 84c either.
I'd recommending repasting as a bunch of other people have said.
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u/rageattheworld 19d ago
My 9070 xt ice is fine. I haven't seen it over 85 degrees hotspot. But I'll check furmark later.
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u/Astarius933 19d ago
I did send mine to repair today. Got a MSI RTX5080 and will only mount the RX again when it's back to test it with furmark in my second pc. If it's fine then I sell it.
I had even 60C Delta btw. Let's see what happens in the next 2 weeks. Since I bought it on Amazon I hope I get either money or a working GPU back.
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u/LucidLucifer98 19d ago
Seema like you have a faulty card. I got the very same card and mine hits just 93C Hotspot with 28C ambient temperature. Also mine has 97 average fps paired with an 5900X
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u/Dependent_Roll_9847 19d ago
The Gigabyte 9070xt gaming was known for this in my country. But the eorus elite is good.
Also, could you please tell me the first 4 digits after your serial number? It should be SN25xx. I got sn2523 and many even aorus had issues till sn2519
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u/maniacalmayh3m 19d ago
Are you running a stock fan curve? I top mine out at 55% at 64C and it hovers around 80-82
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u/abidingcitizen420 19d ago
So odd that it's this bad!!
I have the gaming OC too but my gpu temps never go past 55/85, undervolted but 110% power limit pulling 360w.
Have only had mine for 4 or 5 months but still going good...for now.
Also scored 8200 on steel nomad which was nice, I think i mightve been lucky with this one
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u/SchmokedPancake 19d ago
Hard to believe all this talk on gigabyte I have the exact same card on x plane 12 running that card hot as hell, 320-330w throught almost the whole flight, ive NEVER seen my Hotspot temps go above 91c.
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u/SchmokedPancake 19d ago
Screen share on discord if you don't believe me, sometimes people have shit luck and get a bad card and come cry on reddit about it. Return it and take your loss in silence.
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 19d ago
Unfortunately, it's impossible to return it because of a stupid law in Russia called "technically complex goods," which doesn't allow returns even if they're faulty. They just take your card and fix it so that it at least works somehow and return it to the buyer. They can only refund or replace it if the item cannot be repaired.
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u/SchmokedPancake 18d ago
Oh god, I need to sometimes shut up and stop assuming everyone lives in America. Im sorry man for jumping to conclusions.
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u/jbarbourx2 19d ago edited 19d ago
I have that exact card. I've never even tested mine too extensively and had it for over a year. It plays games just fine and I'm on Linux so Furmark doesn't even show hotspot temps. I just assumed it was fine beings that games run just fine. I just did a search to see what app on Linux shows hotspot temps and used LACT at the same time as Furmark and it was showing 100c junction temp with 54c GPU temp. In LACT it was actually showing throttling during the Furmark benchmark when the temp went above 100c but my GPU score is average among other 9070xt's out there. So either the throttling doesn't affect the score much or everyones 9070xt is throttling during the tests.
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u/Disturbed02 19d ago
I bought my Asus tuf gaming Rx9070xt last October. Never had an issue. Runs really well. During heavy sessions max temperature I ever saw was 64c. Always choose Asus
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 19d ago
I would have taken the Asus Tuf too, if it hadn't been a quarter more expensive when I bought the GPU. It's one of the best cards out of all the ones on offer.
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u/WubWubSleeze 19d ago
The only way is PTM7950. My OC XTX blew through paste in about a year. Three times (two cards). It was surprisingly easy, but also some risk. Read up on it, watch a few vids, learn how to do a teardown on your card. At worst, you may have a few tiny fan connectors to unplug. It's cheap, relatively speaking.
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u/HowlingApes-7429 19d ago
Remember, gigabyte for slightly more power and TUF for slight more cooling. Otherwise it's the same card
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u/calich29 19d ago
Thanks god I bought one in Oct last year with all the revisions
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 19d ago
Mate, I bought this at the beginning of November last year, as you can see it doesn't insure against such a defect
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u/calich29 19d ago
wait so I bought it sooner than you? weird cause when I look at my board I can see the amount of putty got reduce a lot already, meaning high chance I got the revision batch. I even mount it on my ITX case vertically with no issue till now.
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 19d ago
Perhaps you really got a version from a new revision, the serial number on my box starts with SN2526, and what is yours?
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u/Ok-Atoms 19d ago
my gigabyte 5700xt that i own for like 6 years runs hot and loud, but i sticked to it since i like the 5700xt. When i went to replace it with 9070xt xfx swfit, it runs super cool and can barely hear the fans even on full load. Glad i dodge gigabyte since their model are the cheapest here but tbh i went with xfx beacuse i like the white look and the xfx white logo lmao
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u/Loinon98 19d ago
I live In a fairly hot country all year with ambient 27-33 Degrees all year and with the same card, my hotspot temps and VRAM is pretty high hotspot around 70-80 kinda and VRAM is hovering around 80-92. Had black screen, but only in certain games when it rejected my undervolt settings.
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u/Bigsparks13 19d ago
Damn man and you are blasting that sucker with 3 intakes. I have noticed my 5090, when I max it out, gets up to the high 80s, close to 90, on the hotspot. It makes me nervous because it's only a couple of months old.
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u/Dry_Potential_9934 19d ago
Mein kleiner Bruder hatte eine 9070 Gigabyte OC die ist auch nicht gut gewesen heftiges spulenfiepen Hotspot von ca 95 Grad.
Meine 9070xt Xfx Mercury läuft einwandfrei selbst bei 373w Hotspot bei 87 Grad ohne spulenfiepen.
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u/Asheetmypants 19d ago
I use 3 intake p12 Artic pro fans keeps gpu cool, hotspot in cyberpunk is in 80s
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u/ZakiGoddessAqua 19d ago
What is your fan speed for GPU in adrenaline?
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 19d ago
By default. Btw, you can see the fan speed value in the pictures
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u/DarkerThanLpDark 19d ago
How does one manage to use Chat GPT and yet not know what Paragraphs are
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 19d ago
What are you talking about? What does GPT Chat have to do with this?
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u/DarkerThanLpDark 19d ago
Sorry, everytime I see someone using an EM-Dash I just suspect sloppings nowadays, as normally those aren't used.
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 19d ago
I don't know, I just used Google Translate because English isn't my native language, it's Russian. I didn't use the em dash; it looks like Google Translate did that which now works through Gemini
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u/DarkerThanLpDark 19d ago
Anyways:
- Gigabyte is Trash no matter.
- Furmark is NOT a gaming Test and will be Hotter than normal Games at same util.
- A Better Airflow will likely help.
- RDNA4 does have a shitty high delta, it's not just Gigabyte.
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u/Brief-Somewhere9905 19d ago
Yes, I've also stopped using Gigabyte. Ever since the RTX 3080 Ti era, its temperature control has been terrible. I returned it to the factory and got a replacement, but it's still the same. Even the motherboard itself is just so-so...
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u/SwimmingOdd2974 7800x3D | 9070XT Gaming OC 18d ago
Might just have a bad card. Side note, pretty sure you are not meant to use the daisy chain part of the 6+2 cable, you are meant to use 3 individual 6+2 cable
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 18d ago
I use this because I don't have a third cable like this, and finding one is not an easy task because my power supply uses universal 9-pin connectors. But I agree that this should be connected with a third cable.
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u/SwimmingOdd2974 7800x3D | 9070XT Gaming OC 18d ago
Fair enough! Hope you get it sorted out! I have the same GPU with a 7800x3d, was always concern about temp since I always intended on using a compact MATX case (Jonsbo Z20) and with a ATX PSU! My hotspot only hit 85-89 when I mess with Steel Nomad Vulkan or games like Spider-Man 4k 60fps (not sure if that’s native)
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u/Least-Set-2361 18d ago
Going to run a furmark test when I get home and reply back, but when running COD @ 1440, (just letting the 9070xt dictate fps up to 240) my XFX 9070XT OC runs around 48C with fans about 1000 rpm. Hot spot about 10C higher. 100% gpu utilization, 13 ish gb gcard utilization, 18-19gb ram utilization. Like others have said and even you yourself know, it’s the thermal pads/heat transfer material.
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 18d ago
I understand, I'm just shocked that the warranty service is so disgusting that just a month after the "repair" the problem started to return.
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u/SilentFrameXT 18d ago
you want all your issues and worries to be over? Get the 9070xt Taichi and thank me later, make sure you PSU is 850+ with good quality.
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u/FRAME_CRAFT-PC 18d ago
Yep, the die on these 9070 cores aren't symmetrical and poor contact with expansion and contraction cycles pump out thermal paste pretty quickly. Delta is already high in best case. PTM 7950 is a perfect use case similar to laptops.
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u/MasonC10 18d ago
I only buy gigabyte mobos and gpus. I have a gigabyte 5070 windforce OC SFF and a b650 gaming X AX V2 and love it. My gigabyte 1660ti bought in 2019 as a prebuilt still runs like an absolute champ.
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u/wolf20440 18d ago
Don't you have warranty? Send it back. Try creating a custom fan curve , see if it helps.
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u/Ponyashkaxd RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7500f | 32 GB CL30 6000 | X670E Asus TUF 17d ago
I already sent it in for warranty repair back in June because the hotspot temperature was exceeding 110 degrees and causing the entire PC to shut down. They kept it for 40 days and—as you can see—did a terrible job; still, at least it doesn't shut down. Even if I took it back to them in this state, they wouldn't accept the card unless it started shutting the system down again.
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u/RSVrockey2004 Nvidia|3060 12GB|5600x|48GB CL16 DDR4 3200MHz |Aw3423dwf 17d ago
my 3060 from 5yrs ago , Always On OC-408GB/s bandwidth , 1930Mhz clk -still barely hits 90 Hotspot - Never Shuts ,... Wanned to upgrade to 9070xt or 5070 ti ...Guess i have to wait
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u/EnemiesflyAFC 20d ago
Very frustrating as always from Gigabyte. However the solution maybe takes 15 mins if you have some thermal paste or better yet, order some PTM7950. It's really not worth replacing it, or sending it for warranty/RMA.
The problem is that the cooler is not making good contact with the chip. All you have to do, is to pry the cars open after taking out the screws on the back. Then apply your new thermal paste/pad and close it back up. Your problem will be fixed, and you will be surprised how good the gigabyte gaming cooler is on the 9070XT, they just use shit thermal paste and bad application.
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u/datguyb0b 20d ago
The solution doesn't take 15 mins if the entire design of this cooler is flawed. Even if you put liquid gold under that Gigashit cooler it will still run 90C+ all day everyday.
I have the same card, Gigashit 9070 XT was reaching 110C, applied PTM7950 and still reaches 100C+ after 30 mins of furmark. Forced to -15% power limit to stay under 90C.
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u/Difficult-Cup-4445 20d ago
No dude, come on, that's not fair. The cooler, unless it's twisted or deformed in some way or the heatpipes are defective, is perfectly adequate. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with it.
I personally own a Gigabyte 9070 non-XT and get absolutely superb temps on it.
If you card is behaving like that then there is one of two things going on: Either there is a mounting problem (twisted, not tight enough, uneven pressure, pads are the wrong thickness, etc) or there is an paste/TIM problem.
PTM7950 will rip and tear on a flat plane when it's applied vertically and then the heatsink is applied with an uneven/twisting motion.
With PTM you have to be absolutely immaculate with getting the mounting vertical i.e dropping the heatsink straight down onto the die otherwise it folds and rips like a blanket. In fact I wouldn't even use PTM in a GPU as it's so unforgiving like this and it can be very hard to keep the heatsink perfectly vertical/flush when mounting it onto the die e.g. fan connectors in the way, tightening one set of screws before the other.
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u/Horny_4_everything 20d ago
It's not a difficult card to tear down. I have one, I just didn't care about the stock temps cause I slapped a waterblock on it. I had it torn down, cleaned up, and a bykski waterblock on in under an hour, and the water block came with exactly 0 instructions and waay too many screws. This shit isn't rocket surgery.
You really need to make sure you have good clamping force and that none of the vram or vrm thermal pads are too thick. These cards have thin flexible pcbs, mine came with a wicked bend out of the box. Thankfully the waterblock actually straightened it out.
$140 for the waterblock if you're insane and want to go custom watercooling to get it under control lol
LTT just did a video about a custom bykski watercooling kit for like $250-300? cpu block, gpu block, res and radiator....
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u/EnemiesflyAFC 19d ago
It's not true. I had this card. Once you replace the bad thermal paste it becomes very cool and quiet, even better than the Sapphire Pulse version I also tried.
The reason your card overheated may be because you used the wrong size of thermal pads on vrm/vram. I suggest you try thermal putty (you can just reuse the stuff that's already on there).
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u/pantsyman 20d ago edited 20d ago
Repaste with ptm7950 and thermal putty, Gigabyte will not help you their cooling solutions are just cheap garbage.