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Kayrim
Journeyman III

Radeon RX 6750 XT Red Devil hot spot temp

For a while now my PC sometimes just turnes off while gaming (no blue screen, just turns off). I found out, it has to be the GPU overheating, normally it runs at 50/60c and when i start gaming it goes up to 65/110c. Sometimes I have very small temp jumps in the hot spot which leads to it reaching 120c and turning off my PC.

The cooling should not be an issue, I have 7 fans, 3 of them are blowing fresh, cold air directly at the GPU (its build in verticaly due to the case).

I already repasted, it works a bit better know and crashes on less games. But it still crashes sometimes because of the hot spot temp.

 

I've read a lot of stuff about it being normal that AMD GPU hot spots can go up to 110c but its constantly this high while gaming. Is this normal?

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Tech4u
Journeyman III

I have had the same experience with my XFX Qick RX6750 XT.

After a lot of testing and research i found the cause and the solution(s).

The cause is that the GPU Hotspot temp exceeds it's thermal limits thus shutdowns your system before it explodes, so thats actually good.

The solution i tried was to remove the backplate and the thermal pad that resides on the backside of the GPU.

I then took a copper plate and put new thermal pads at either side of the copper plate and placed it on the backside of the GPU. Then i re-assembled the backplate and tested it in various scenarios.

The result was very surprising.

The hotspot temp. and the gpu temp were much closer to each other (within 5 degrees celsius) and under full load it did almost hit the thermal threshold but luckily it stabilized at around 105 degrees celsius instead of going over the 115 degrees hard limit.

What was most suprising is that when i stopped the test, the hotspot temp. went down faster then the gpu temp !

So in my case i was able to succesfully solved the problem and even improved performance.

In short : you need to find a way to cool the backside of the GPU, in my case the backplate is plastic so i am thinking of cutting a whole into it and place a custom cooler on it. (if i am lucky i can use a AMD cpu cooler for that)

Or leave the backplate of entirely.

Anyhow, the issue never happened again so i am confident enough to say that the cause is the hotspot thermal limit exceedance so be inventive and try your own build perhaps. (be careful though ofcourse)

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Tech4u
Journeyman III

- Addition to my previous post -

The other solution i forgot to mention is to lower your GPU clockspeed to 2400-2500 MHz max and set the voltage to 1150-1175.

Also try playing at 120 FPS or less in games, this helps a lot !

Quality settings won't affect the temps too much so you can still play with high graphics settings.

With this method you don't have to remove your backplate at all.

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