Backplate too hot?

[Viktor277]

Recently got a msi 1070 gaming x and temps are all good, except that the backplate gets really hot, cant keep my fingers on it fore more than 5 secs, i replaced all thermal pads and thermal paste, i dont see any thermal pads or something that would transfer the heat to the backplate to get that hot, thats why im concerned. Also im not sure if should i put a thermal pad over capacitors since it didnt have any on them when i opened it, and i saw that some cards online have a thermal pad over them, and some dont. Also a pic of a backplate, not enough thermal pads to carry all that heat from pcb in my opinion.

[IkeaGnome]

What's the actual temperature of the GPU and it's components?

What we "feel" is hot is vastly different from what a graphics card "feels" is hot. If the backplate is hot, it's taking heat away from the gpu and doing it's job.

If you want to cool the backplate down, under volt/ under clock/turn fans up. Generally make the GPU run cooler. 

[AnonymousGuy]

The backplate is there for aesthetics on anything besides a XX90 GPU.  

The capacitors don't need thermal pads.

[jaslion]

The backplate will heat up from the gpu radiating some heat from the back as well as the mounting points of it.

 

Also hot to the touch and actually hot is a entirely different thing.

 

If the gpu is running fine and in spec all is ok.

 

If the card didn't put thermal pads on the caps at stock it won't need it now.

[Viktor277]

6 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

What's the actual temperature of the GPU and it's components?

What we "feel" is hot is vastly different from what a graphics card "feels" is hot. If the backplate is hot, it's taking heat away from the gpu and doing it's job.

If you want to cool the backplate down, under volt/ under clock/turn fans up. Generally make the GPU run cooler. 

 

5 minutes ago, AnonymousGuy said:

The backplate is there for aesthetics on anything besides a XX90 GPU.  

The capacitors don't need thermal pads.

During games the die temp is around 55-60c max and hotspot howers around 65-70c, dead quiet. Same results during furmark, pulls around 200w, in games 180-190w, core clocks around 1800 1900mhz range,stock nothing overclocked. i had a rx 470 that ran way hotter than this and it was loud af and its backplate was always mild warm nothing like this.

[jaslion]

3 minutes ago, Viktor277 said:

 

During games the die temp is around 55-60c max and hotspot howers around 65-70c, dead quiet. Same results during furmark, pulls around 200w, in games 180-190w, core clocks around 1800 1900mhz range,stock nothing overclocked. i had a rx 470 that ran way hotter than this and it was loud af and its backplate was always mild warm nothing like this.

Not compareable.

 

The rx470 is a 120w card tops. It's not putting out the same amount of heat and can also be a different design.

 

Either way stop worrying it's working fine and you are looking waaay too much into this.

[Viktor277]

5 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Not compareable.

 

The rx470 is a 120w card tops. It's not putting out the same amount of heat and can also be a different design.

 

Either way stop worrying it's working fine and you are looking waaay too much into this.

Could be. I'm also too paranoid cuz i had two 1070s and a 1080 just die flat out last year, tired of wasting money on gpus, just wanna have a gpu thats gonna last. tbh i could have gotten a 3070 by now with the money i spent in vain.

[jaslion]

2 minutes ago, Viktor277 said:

Could be. I'm also too paranoid cuz i had two 1070s and a 1080 just die flat out last year, tired of wasting money on gpus, just wanna have a gpu thats gonna last. tbh i could have gotten a 3070 by now with the money i spent in vain.

That sounds like a different issue entirely.

 

Full system specs please. Psu make and model.

[IkeaGnome]

2 minutes ago, Viktor277 said:

I'm also paranoid cuz i had two 1070s and a 1080 just die flat out,

This sounds like something else is having issues in your computer and taking them out. Or you're having really bad luck buying used.

[Viktor277]

Just now, jaslion said:

That sounds like a different issue entirely.

 

Full system specs please. Psu make and model.

 

Just now, IkeaGnome said:

This sounds like something else is having issues in your computer and taking them out. Or you're having really bad luck buying used.

Real bad luck boys trust me. PSU is MSI mpg a850gf, supposedly a A tier on the psu list, brand new bought last year, got a 10 year warranty on it, works perfectly, in 1080s case the chip died and on the 1070s both cases memory failed. ryzen 2600x 16gb 3200mhz and 144hz 1080p for the rest of the specs.