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Hot Spot temperature down from ~ 102°C to ~ 75°C on my gold old RX 6800xt just by deshrouding and putting a huge chunk of thermal pad between board and backplate? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As long as I had my XFX 6800xt, I had some temperature problems. The GPU temperature went up to 80°C and the hot spot temperature usually stood at 105°C, but occasionally went up to 110°C. So the fans were screaming as if they were being slaughtered.

So I removed the shroud, replaced the 90mm fans with 120mm fans, which I had lying around in my "tech box" and which are now hanging on the heatsink through zip-ties. And a 100x100 3mm thick thermal pad between the backplate and the back of the board.

Result: Furmark (as an extreme example) just manages to bring the respective temperatures to 57°C GPU temperature or 75°C hot spot temperature.

I would never have thought that an investment of €8 could make such a difference

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

My 6800xt has bad hotspot temps and I've wanted to give it new pads for awhile. It has only gotten bad in benchmarks though (100-110C where GPU temps are 70max).

That's until recently when I started playing CS2 and this is the first game that has started to push my hotspot temps near 100C in actual use.

My question is do you or anyone know what kind of performance/stability improvements I can get by getting my hotspot temps under control?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If your card is reaching 110C, it will start to throttle down to not exceed those temps, the amount it throttle varies based on how much it needs to back down to keep it in the 110C max tjunc temp.

That large of variances is usually due to uneven contact between heatsink and the die. Some of the 7000 series had these issues as well which some people tried to correct with repasting etc, though it made little sense to do that as cards were new and should be RMA'd. GPU at 70C and hotspot at 110C is not normal.

If that 6800xt is out of warranty, you can repaste it and also inspect your cooler and the card itself to see if you're getting any type of bowing (curves) in the PCB, this can cause uneven pressure and a poor mount. Other reasons can be just the cooler is not flat etc.

If you're under 100C on hotspot, it's not ideal but it shouldn't reduce performance. I personally would not be comfortable with a 70C GPU and 100C hotspot, 30C delta is a bit on high side.

It's unlikely that thermal pads alone with contribute such drastic drops, it's likely that in the process, OP was able to better seat the cooler with even pressure distribution which is what you're going for. Do some research but people have gotten pretty good results with ptm7950 sheets as opposed to thermal compounds on GPUs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Repasting and remounting a GPU is far cheaper and far QUICKER than having to RMA it and wait weeks for replacements.

Personally, if you're into PC building then you should already be used to tinkering with your hardware. Idk why people get so uptight when it comes to fiddling with GPUs.

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