GPU Overheating please help !

[felipelfalconurrutia]

I've got a Radeon R7 250 1gb and it's overheating extremely (up to 100°C and more), I don't need to use the newest games to make it overheat, just from time to time it does it, by using youtube or chrome, it's very weird and I'm tired of opening the GPU to put more thermal paste in it to see if it fixes (it kinda does but for a day or two then it overheats again). I've uninstalled the older graphics' drivers and the new ones are up to date. My overclocking (at BIOS) is on "Auto".
Please help I'm desperate !

 

[thatmoney]

Did it start overheating when you first bought it? If it was you could of sent a rma request and could of gotten a new one but, since you open it up I think you voided the ability to send a rma request. You could try disabling your auto overclock feature and see if that helps with the temps.

 

[felipelfalconurrutia]

Did it start overheating when you first bought it? If it was you could of sent a rma request and could of gotten a new one but, since you open it up I think you voided the ability to send a rma request. You could try disabling your auto overclock feature and see if that helps with the temps.

In fact the guaranty already expired, I've had this gpu for a year now and lately it's been overheating (since november), before I had no problem.
Also I changed the overclocking to manual and set the lowest value possible but nothing changed.

 

[thatmoney]

Is the fan on the gpu spinning up to proper speeds? You could check to see what the proper speeds are and compare. You also might be able buy the gpu heat sink assembly off of ebay and try that?

 

[felipelfalconurrutia]

I uninstalled again the old AMD drivers, in the report at the CCC package (I think it's Catalyst Control Center) it says "Warn" instead of "Success" and when I press "Warn" it takes me to the "Error messages" which is empty (no idea why).
Then when I installed the newest AMD drivers it says that the installation is completed but there were a few warnings during the installation and the report says nothing about a warning, no error messages again, not even a packaged with "warn" status instead of "success".

Should I be worried about this ?

 

[thatmoney]

Hmmm I don't think so, I would make sure your Windows updates are up to date and then try installing the drivers again. Sometimes installing updates can fix some error messages.

 

[felipelfalconurrutia]

Is the fan on the gpu spinning up to proper speeds? You could check to see what the proper speeds are and compare. You also might be able buy the gpu heat sink assembly off of ebay and try that?

The fan is normally at 35% and the GPU temp is at 25-50°C normally (it stays stable at 50°C when it's doing good), but when it starts to overheat it reaches 100°C and even further and the fan goes to the 100%

 

[thatmoney]

Yeah to me it looks like the rpms on the fan at 100% look low. Try finding out if that is the max speed the fan will spin or if it will go higher.

 

[felipelfalconurrutia]

Yeah to me it looks like the rpms on the fan at 100% look low. Try finding out if that is the max speed the fan will spin or if it will go higher.

Yeah I thought the same, well I don't know how to know about the normal fan max speed, I searched for it and couldn't find it.
Do you think the fan is the problem ?

Edit: I just realized the rpm meter is for the CPU, the GPU just shows the % of it's use. Weird.

 

[thatmoney]

That weird what program are you using to watch fan speed? I use msi afterburner to control and show my fan speed for my gpu.

 

[felipelfalconurrutia]

That weird what program are you using to watch fan speed? I use msi afterburner to control and show my fan speed for my gpu.

Downloaded, where do I check the rpm of the fan ?