5700XT Hot Spot temps too high

[BTGbullseye]

Ok, so before anyone says "that's normal", this is most definitely NOT normal, as the clocks were averaging HIGHER with the reference cooler than they are now with the CLC liquid cooler, with higher average temps and the same hot spot. (note, this is with an undervolt to 1.1v at 2GHz)

 

Can anyone tell me where the sensor is for this so I can cool it properly?

 

[RONOTHAN##]

The hotspot temp is the temp one of the temps on the die itself. The way temperature monitoring for the core works on AMD GPUs is there are multiple different temperature sensors spread throughout the die. The actual GPU temperature is the average of all those temperature sensors, and the hotspot temp is just the hottest temp out of all of them. If the hotspot temp is higher now than it was before, I'd suspect a bad cooler mount, so repaste the card and that should hopefully fix it (make sure to use more thermal paste than you think would be necessary, there is no such thing as too much, only such thing as too little). 

 

EDIT: It could also be that the coldplate on the AIO isn't completely flat, so one part of the die is not making good contact. If a re-paste doesn't fix it, I'd lap the AIO.

Edited July 1, 2022 by RONOTHAN##

[BTGbullseye]

Thank you for the information. I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that because it's a bit of a pain to do, but if that's what's needed, then that's what's needed.