I think my rx 580 is running to hot

[pinky33]

I read around the internet that factory fan settings are tailored to high heat and low noise. I would have to agree since my stock settings were set to 85c target and 90 max. Even at these settings I was hitting 85 running some benchmarks with fans at 85% or so. I adjusted for 70 target and 90 max. During benching and gaming all night I was running fans at 99% and 74-75c.

Tonight after work I pulled heatsink and reapplied thermal paste with Arctic silver 5. Temps seem to be about 5c lower at idle and load. To me this still seems high. Running a benchmark I am now hitting 75c with fans hitting 95% after a few bench runs.


1425 and 2100 are my current settings. This is the stock OC from XFX. I really want to push this card further but don't like the idea of already hitting 75c.


Can anyone shed some light on this?

About to try undervolting now.

 

[EarthDog]

Welcome to AMD RX 580 overclocking. They (that arch) notoriously runs a bit hot.

Which specific XFX RX 580 do you have? I don't see it listed in the sig or...

 

[pinky33]

ah, need to update that.

Undervolting lead to instability.


By raising temps to a threshold of 77c instead of 70 and the new paste I can now game at 66-70% fan. And that is way better than 99%.


Will try increasing the voltage to overclock, but it seems I am already having issues with fan noise. Don't see this going far.

Try to overclock RAM another night.