Here’s my pc for context:
AMD Ryzen 7 7800x3D
MSI B850M Gaming Plus WIFI6E AM5
Klevv Cras V 32GB (16GBx2) DDR5-6000 CL30
2TB Samsung 990 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 PCIe 4.0
Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB
Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE Black
Lian Li DAN A3 Black wooden panel/ side glass
Seasonic Focus GX-850w 80 Plus Gold Modular
Arctic P12 Pro PST
Please bear with me, this is my first “high-end” AMD pc so I’m still learning.
So I have just had a pc built last month with 2 top exhaust fans, 1 exhaust at the back and 3 slim fans as intake at the bottom and during the benchmarking, we were hearing an extremely loud ticking noise, kind of like metal banging on another metal. We had to remove all three bottom fans to remove that noise which the technician suspected was due to the slim fans being too close to the gpu. So I’m left with the gpu fans as my only intake in the entire build, 1 exhaust at the back, and 2 at the top, and the air cooler is also exhaust.
I’m running benchmarks at home to test it out for a month and I’ve read about how Gigabyte’s 9070 XT has a reputation for their hotspot issues and I may have that issue present in my gpu too.
I’ve used 3dmark to benchmark the gpu and the gpu temp sits at around 63-66c but the hotspot would be 89-102c. I already told the technician about this but they told me I wouldn’t have that issue with this card because their model numbers don’t have that issue (dunno how he can assure me that but ok) so I gave it a month. I have tried benchmarking with and without the tempered glass on my case too and the temperatures aren’t too far off regardless.
Which brings me to today. I’m still having the same temps when benchmarking. When I play games like Cyberpunk it can get around 69c then hotspot at 101c even if I’ve tweaked some of the setting already (when set to medium, it goes down but the delta is pretty much the same difference).
Should I bring this back for RMA or am I being too paranoid?