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RX 590 overheating

Zarax

Zarax

Zarax

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Hello,
my RX 590 recently seems to be suffering from overheating.
Even with a pretty aggressive fan curve profile using MSI afterburner the card seems to be suffering from driver timeouts and hardware crashes when pushed hard.
It's not overclocked in any way and I'm using Radeon chill to little effect.

I read about undervolting but I don't know anything about it, is there anything safe I can do with my card to help with the heat?

Thanks!
 
It would be useful if you can tell us what temps your gpu and vram your card is hitting. I would suggest you replace the thermal paste on the gpu. I have had good results with thermal grizzly hydronaught.
 
eeii said:
It would be useful if you can tell us what temps your gpu and vram your card is hitting. I would suggest you replace the thermal paste on the gpu. I have had good results with thermal grizzly hydronaught.
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GPU gets into the high 70s, I don't have the confidence to pull apart the card...
 
high 70s for the gpu isn't that high, certainly not high enough to cause it to fall over. Are you able to get the vram temps too?
 
Zarax said:
Can I get it with MSI afterburner?
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i have an RX480 and I can't, but you should be able to on HWiNFO. believe the chips are rated to 125c mind, at least they are on the RX480 and they're extremely similar cards. might be worth a google to double check
 
My 580 pulse started running hot one day - close to 80c ~3000rpm fans and downclocking. The only thing that fixed it was a friend putting new TIM on it. Until he was able to do that though, I knocked the clock speed down to 1260MHz and the voltage slightly (it didn't undervolt that much). That made the power draw drop to generally no greater than 120W. And there was a noticeable difference between 1266MHz and 1260Mhz. So you should definitely play with the speeds a bit too.
 
70s or 80s temp is normaly not an issue. I don't recall if Polaris has a hotspot temp sensor but if a hotspot is getting very high, usually over 100c, problems arise and this can happen even if edge temp is in the 70ish or 80ish due to bad paste, bad appliance of paste or mounting pressure issues. Normally I would just repaste and while doing this, take a look at the pressure pattern but if you don't feel confident doing that then follow @loftie and B@th*nG's idea of undervolting and perhaps underclocking until your problems dissappear. A quick sidenote could be to reinstall your driver(remember to use tick on factory reset and don't keep user settings in the installer). If you just recently installed a new driver then try an older one. You don't have to be on the bleeding edge of drivers for good performance in many cases.
 
Im willing to bet theres a big clump of dust under the cooler blocking the ventilation. I had a couple 480s with that problem. Started to throttle and nothing i could do about the rising temps. You'll need to take the cooler off to get at it and clean it.
 
Lokken86 said:
Im willing to bet theres a big clump of dust under the cooler blocking the ventilation. I had a couple 480s with that problem. Started to throttle and nothing i could do about the rising temps. You'll need to take the cooler off to get at it and clean it.
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I carefully dusted everything with compressed air less than a month ago, I doubt it's a blocked ventilation issue.
I'm trying with a -1% power setting in MSI afterburner, let's see if it helps...
 
the best way is to remove the cooler, replace the TIM with new thermal pads for memory, once the factory TIM has broken down it will only get worse. there is no other way iam afraid.
 
The tim can be an issue after a year, it can dry out and crack very quickly, plus they dont use the best TIM either. so 3 years yes the tim is dried out and cracked.
 
vapor matt said:
The tim can be an issue after a year, it can dry out and crack very quickly, plus they dont use the best TIM either. so 3 years yes the tim is dried out and cracked.
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In this case I'll just lighten the load until I replace my entire rig, which is bound to happen next year, not going to risk now.
 
I just recently bought a used RX 570. At stock settings… this card was running hot (into the 80C’s at times) and fan speed touching the 3,000 RPM range.

After taking it apart, I notice the thermal paste was dry and hard. After a fresh application of whatever thermal paste I had… Temps are now in the 60C’s and the fan speed will only touch the 2,000 RPM range occasionally.

So yeah, so most likely the thermal paste has dried up in your card.
 
B@Th*nG said:
i have an RX480 and I can't, but you should be able to on HWiNFO. believe the chips are rated to 125c mind, at least they are on the RX480 and they're extremely similar cards. might be worth a google to double check
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590 is an overclocked 580...which in itself is a rebranded 480
 
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