Msi 5700xt mech oc hotspot

[urbancamper]

When I purchased mine the reviews had not been out yet. I fact it turned out there was only one on it on the tube I could find. That was after I had already received mine. It was warm out, the air was on inside, the temps where not great but they where well within the tjmax. Anyway as it gets cold outside and I turn the heat on of course I see the temps going up. Still all are within specs, except the hotspot. Tjmax is 110c and I noticed it was going over that.

 

So I decided to fix the card. I have some 2mm minus 8 pads, and some mx 4. I took it apart and cleaned it up with some 91% Isopropyl Alcohol. Put new pads and the mx4 on it, put it back together, installed it, and crossed my fingers I did not brick it. I fired right up. All temps are down by at least 10c. The gpu temp went from upper 70s to 66c while gaming pubg.

 

The gpu hotspot however is still hovering around 110. I'm thinking I may have to remove the backplate and put a thermal pad where the socket is. Any thoughts on this? Will appreciate any thoughts. Thank you.

 

 

[Faisal A]

If it reaching 100 they may be a fault with the card so you can return it for a replacement

[BTGbullseye]

4 hours ago, Faisal A said:

If it reaching 100 they may be a fault with the card so you can return it for a replacement

Not really. 100°c at junction is very typical for non-watercooled 5700 XTs.

4 hours ago, urbancamper said:

The gpu hotspot however is still hovering around 110. I'm thinking I may have to remove the backplate and put a thermal pad where the socket is. Any thoughts on this? Will appreciate any thoughts. Thank you.

What driver version are you using? Some of them report the numbers wrong. (latest driver is 19.10.2, and should report the temps right) Also, the hotspot/junction temp is for the hottest chip on the card, not just the processor. It looks at the VRMs, VRAM, GPU core, and many other chips on the board. Maybe try using all thermal paste instead of paste and pad combination. (put the paste a little thick on the VRAM and VRM locations, and just skip the pads entirely)

 

If none of that fixes anything, then contact MSI for further help.

[urbancamper]

56 minutes ago, BTGbullseye said:

Not really. 100°c at junction is very typical for non-watercooled 5700 XTs.

What driver version are you using? Some of them report the numbers wrong. (latest driver is 19.10.2, and should report the temps right) Also, the hotspot/junction temp is for the hottest chip on the card, not just the processor. It looks at the VRMs, VRAM, GPU core, and many other chips on the board. Maybe try using all thermal paste instead of paste and pad combination. (put the paste a little thick on the VRAM and VRM locations, and just skip the pads entirely)

 

If none of that fixes anything, then contact MSI for further help.

I am using 19.10.2. 

All my temps are now fine with the one exception. Frankly it makes no sense to me as i did not thermal throttle and as you can see the rest of the temps are very low. This was while fighting 3 scorch beasts plus a bunch of minions at once in fallout 76. 

 

 

The big problem now is hot spot temp.

[BTGbullseye]

18 hours ago, urbancamper said:

Frankly it makes no sense to me as i did not thermal throttle and as you can see the rest of the temps are very low.

Thermal throttling is not based off the junction/hot spot temp, but on the core/ram/VRM temps. There are several other chips that have thermal sensors on the board. My guess is that there's just one of the other chips that you either forgot to put a thermal solution on, (I very nearly did that when I pasted my reference 5700 XT) or never had a thermal solution. (maybe they thought it didn't need it, or it was an assembly issue)

 

As long as that hot spot temp stays under 110°c, I'd say you should be fine. (I get mine to hit that only under synthetic load, and it doesn't have any instability until it passes 110°)