RX 570 overheating?

[steelo]

Hey,

 

I have a Gigabyte RX 570 that I bought brand new about 5 months ago that seems to run extremely hot under load. It is easily in the 60's during gaming and if I attempt to overclock it in the slightest (runs at 1240mhz with factory settings) it will freeze my system within a few minutes. It's disappointing because if you look at Gigabytes RX 570 web page, they boast about their cooling technology. Over the weekend, I installed BOINC mainly to stress test my overclocked CPU and RAM. The CPU stayed in the 60's but the video card temps slowly kept creeping up and within 20-30 minutes froze the system. I verified that both fans are running and I believe that I have adequate cooling in my case (2 front, 1 rear case fans) I could run the graphics card and case fans at full speed, but the computer will sound like a jet engine.

 

Are these normally very hot running cards or did I just get a crappy one?

[Jurrunio]

60C isnt even hot... I wont be concerned until it gets past 85. 

 

As for the crashes, what if you max out the power limit? You're extremely unlucky to get a 500 series that doesnt go past 1350MHz though, that's 400 series overclocking range.

[steelo]

56 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

60C isnt even hot... I wont be concerned until it gets past 85. 

 

As for the crashes, what if you max out the power limit? You're extremely unlucky to get a 500 series that doesnt go past 1350MHz though, that's 400 series overclocking range.

I haven't had a chance to get an exact crash temperature, but it seems like it happens when it gets in the mid to upper 60's. Right now, it is running all stock settings with the CPU and RAM overclocked and 'seems' stable during VR gaming. However, BOINC crashed it running at 100% load for 15-20 mins.

 

I forgot to mention, when I first got the card, I DID overclock it to 1400 mhz and ran fine. Ever since I overclocked my CPU and RAM, I'm experiencing crashes but ONLY when the video card is also overclocked. When the RX 570 is running at stock speeds, I have no issues other than with BOINC. I'm wondering if maybe it's a driver issue, I recently updated the Radeon drivers and these problems arose around that time.

 

I may play with the card a bit tonight, increasing the power limit to 20% increment the clock speed by +25mhz, test for a day and then increase again if stable.