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Reddit User Revives A Thermally Throttling RX 5700 XT With A Bolt-On AMD Fan, Cutting Hotspot From 106°C To 83°C

An MSI Radeon graphics card inside a PC case, with a large cooling fan connected and a red arrow highlighting a specific component.

By implementing some workarounds, the card reportedly went from over 100°C down to 80°C quickly. RX 5700 XT Bought From Pawn Shop Gets Revived by an Additional Fan, Thermal Paste Change, and Heatsink Installation on the VRAM If you have a GPU running for years, your card might be thermally throttling by now. If you haven’t checked the GPU temperatures, it’s time to monitor them and confirm whether your GPU hotspot is hitting over 100°C. For the Reddit user u/Any_Conversation_111, this was called for since his GPU was hitting 100+ Degrees Celsius on both the GPU hotspot and the VRAM. […]

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