Hot memory RX 5700

[Moonpie2]

So I'm kinda new to actually having modern hardware inside my PC and am unsure if a 100 degree memory temp is right... or even if MSI Afterburner is reporting right on Navi cards?

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asro...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-009-ak.html

Does anyone know if I should be ramping up my fan curve even more of if that's normal?

 

[Moonpie2]

Yikes.
Maybe I can message Asrock and ask them what's up with that !!

 

[Moonpie2]

Ok, I'll re-wangle the curve.
Makes sense.

I did just discover though that there's a difference between mining and gaming when it comes to memory temps.
10 minutes of mining was giving me the crazy temps.
But I just ran Superposition twice back to back and the memory temps never got higher than mid-70s.

Hmmmm.......

 

[Moonpie2]

Isn't mining no different to running a intensive benchmark 24/7? It's an unrealistic usage of the gpu as it will never technically hit 100% all the time?

Well, I just figured that using a GPU at full oomph (regardless of mining or graphical benchmarking) would be identical.
Now I've learned that's not exactly the case. Memory seems to be getting slammed much harder in mining. Who knew?

 

[Moonpie2]

FYI for those who are interested, Asrock tech support got back to me and said 100-105 degrees is what 5700 memory is rated to go up to.
Sooooo.... yeah.
Toasty !!!

 

[Moonpie2]

What are you mining? Some algo's are memory intensive but they can also be dialled back so your temps can be realistic.

Eth usually.
Do you know what what command line to add to the config file to make the memory a little less stressed?

 

[Moonpie2]

I read the readme and tried the command line, but it seems that my RX 5700 doesn't like being told what to do by a miner.

So instead I just dialed back the memory frequency by 50mhz in MSI Afterburner and that's keeping my temps lower than 100 while having no effect at all on the hash rate

 

[Moonpie2]

Actually, I take that back, it looks like ambient temperature changes kept it under 100.
Hahah

Still, lots of other command line stuff to tinker with