Some reference coolers have a manufacturing defect, and video cards installed with them overheat.
After the lawsuit over the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090’s melted power connector, AMD also had a problem with its latest top-of-the-line video card, admits to me Models equipped with the Radeon RX 7900 XTX reference cooler designed by him can get very hot.
The problem occurs due to insufficient filling of the vapor chamber of the cooling system, if the video card core is pushed out, the temperature of the graphics processor may rise to the maximum allowable 110 ° C due to a low level of coolant. If this happens, the controller will limit the maximum GPU clocks to avoid the temperature becoming critical, but correspondingly the running speed of the games will drop.
According to AMD, the problem only affects a small percentage of Radeon RX 7900 XTX models with reference cooling. The cooler itself isn’t poorly designed, but rather a manufacturing defect. Customers affected by the error can replace their graphics card by contacting the manufacturer.
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