Question My GPU fan and temp is high after upgrading CPU and motherboard ?

[TrippyFries]

Hello! First time asking something in this forums so it may be a little long but.

I recently just got a new motherboard and CPU for my PC to upgrade from an old system, it was from a Intel core i5 4670 into a Ryzen 5 5600, with a Asrock b550m pro4, and a XFX rx 570 4gb GPU (pretty old I know, currently saving up for a new one later on)
and the GPU temps before the upgrade, under load on a fairly new game it tops out at 75-79°C max, but after I switched to the new CPU and motherboard the GPU temps seems to be higher than usual even breaking into 80-89°C on some games.

I did hear that I should format windows and get a fresh install, but the computer I have is a shared computer with my sibling and I don't know what stuff they have on the disk.
So I'm waiting until they have the time to back up or move files before I can do that

But I have a feeling that that isn't the problem since I saw that it's not really mandatory, but what do I know, I'm not really an expert at computer stuff yet.

So I'm wondering if anyone has or knows about this problem

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

I did hear that I should format windows and get a fresh install, but the computer I have is a shared computer with my sibling and I don't know what stuff they have on the disk.
Reinstall the OS after you've backed up all mission critical data, recreated your bootable USB installer for the OS in an offline mode and installed all relevant drivers with the latest version in an elevated command.

 

[TrippyFries]

Reinstall the OS after you've backed up all mission critical data, recreated your bootable USB installer for the OS in an offline mode and installed all relevant drivers with the latest version in an elevated command.

Thanks for the reply Lutfij!

I guess that's my next step to fix this, but since there is my sibling's data is there and I don't know where all of the data's are, and they're currently busy without using the PC yet, I'm wondering if I can just duplicate my boot drive into my hard drive instead, and then just reinstall the OS afterwards, and if I miss any data's and what not its still in a separate drive that I can still grab and transfer back?

I have more spaces on hard drives (more than 1.5 TB from multiple drives) than my Boot drive (around 250GB)
so I'm wondering if that's possible or not.

EDIT:
"but since there is my sibling's data is there and I don't know where all of the data's are, and they're currently busy without using the PC yet,"
Edit: Scratch that, they said they don't really care about it, so I'm just gonna reset the whole thing

 

[thestryker]

I highly doubt reinstalling windows will help with this in any way. The new CPU uses more power and allows your GPU to run at maximum in every game you're playing.

What does your cooling situation look like? I'm guessing the stock AMD cooler which is okay, but not great. Also need to know what case you're using.

 

[TrippyFries]

I highly doubt reinstalling windows will help with this in any way. The new CPU uses more power and allows your GPU to run at maximum in every game you're playing.

What does your cooling situation look like? I'm guessing the stock AMD cooler which is okay, but not great. Also need to know what case you're using.

My case is like some sort of micro atx case from a company called VenomRX in a computer store, I tried to look for it in their official store but I didn't see anything like it, and I don't really know how to describe it, I'll look into a better CPU cooler later on, but I'm just worried about my GPU for now since I don't want it to be at 89C when I'm playing a GPU intensive game (I'm even playing with lowest settings since that was the previous settings option I have put on before upgrading but the performance is almost the same but the GPU is hotter and louder), I heard that undervolting could work to lower the temps but I don't know anything about or even how to undervolt

Though I am noticing that some of my shortcuts and apps icon is sometimes blank or for steam games has this weird earth icon, so maybe an OS reset could save me from the annoyance of the broken icon

 

[TrippyFries]

Ah right, when I was switching out thermal paste on my card I noticed that there were places that thermal pads should go in those black squares around the die, should I purchase some thermal pads and put them on the black squares to see if that will lower the GPU temps as well?
its been like that ever since I opened the GPU for the first time, so I didn't think anything about it, but after learning about it more I realized maybe there were supposed to be thermal pads being placed in the GPU

 

[thestryker]

I'll look into a better CPU cooler later on

It's not about your CPU cooler but rather airflow, and if youre using the stealth and there's bad case airflow you're heating up the GPU much more than previously.

My case is like some sort of micro atx case from a company called VenomRX in a computer store,

If you can't take a picture and put it on imgur just describe how many fans there are and where they're located along with whether or not there's direct access to air for them or if they're blocked off by solid panels.

Ah right, when I was switching out thermal paste on my card I noticed that there were places that thermal pads should go in those black squares around the die, should I purchase some thermal pads and put them on the black squares to see if that will lower the GPU temps as well?
its been like that ever since I opened the GPU for the first time, so I didn't think anything about it, but after learning about it more I realized maybe there were supposed to be thermal pads being placed in the GPU

If there were thermal pads then it absolutely needs them, but if not then it's not necessarily that important.

Your card is probably running harder than with your old CPU which is probably where the temps are coming in. However poor airflow in the case can absolutely have an extremely negative effect.

 

[TrippyFries]

It's not about your CPU cooler but rather airflow, and if youre using the stealth and there's bad case airflow you're heating up the GPU much more than previously.


If you can't take a picture and put it on imgur just describe how many fans there are and where they're located along with whether or not there's direct access to air for them or if they're blocked off by solid panels.

If there were thermal pads then it absolutely needs them, but if not then it's not necessarily that important.

Your card is probably running harder than with your old CPU which is probably where the temps are coming in. However poor airflow in the case can absolutely have an extremely negative effect.

I see, well my computer has 2 140mm fans at the front blowing air in, and 3 120mm fan, 2 at the top with the last fan at the rear blowing air out.

The front fans has a lot of these small holes with a mesh behind it before the fans, and the top and back has these holes as well but without any mesh blocking the dust.

there is a glass panel on the left side of the case that I can remove, but I'm keeping it on for now as when I was testing, I tested it in a much better ventilated area with the side panel off and the temps were still ridiculously high.

so right now I'm just at a loss of what to do, I'll try to post pics in a bit

 

[TrippyFries]

Pics of my rig:

Cable management is a bit messy, going to fix that in a bit

 

[thestryker]

Looks like the case has plenty of ventilation so I'm guessing it's just the GPU running at maximum performance.

I looked at a teardown of a different brand 570 and it looks like there are thermal pads on VRAM and VRM so I'd assume there should be for yours as well.

 

[TrippyFries]

Looks like the case has plenty of ventilation so I'm guessing it's just the GPU running at maximum performance.

I looked at a teardown of a different brand 570 and it looks like there are thermal pads on VRAM and VRM so I'd assume there should be for yours as well.

Ok so, it seems that it's just my GPU running basically the best it can and it should be safe then?
Though when it runs it is quite loud, do you know of a way to maybe make it run less hot using something like MSI afterburner to lower it's performance a bit and having it be cool, since I want it to be more so a little less performance for more quiet and long lasting(? I think that's the word), but other than that thank you man, you've at least made me feel more assured that it wasn't a bigger problem.

 

[thestryker]

I think it'd be worth taking apart the video card, repasting the GPU and ensuring there are thermal pads on the VRAM and VRM because no matter what it'll last longer running cooler.

The RX 570 doesn't use a ton of power, but you should be able to power limit it without trouble. I do that for my 3080, but it also uses 400W.

 

[TrippyFries]

I think it'd be worth taking apart the video card, repasting the GPU and ensuring there are thermal pads on the VRAM and VRM because no matter what it'll last longer running cooler.

The RX 570 doesn't use a ton of power, but you should be able to power limit it without trouble. I do that for my 3080, but it also uses 400W.

Alright, I'll order some thermal pads and take apart my GPU in a few days after it arrives, I did look into it and people said that I needed around 1.5mm thick thermal pad with some sort of thermal conductivity of like 6W, but I do wonder if I can the buy thinner(0.5mm) pad and just stack it on top of each other to reach 1.5mm, so I can save some money.

Also I'm using the Arctic MX4 thermal paste and I still have a lot left, I also recently changed the GPU paste about a few months ago so I think that's safe, of course I will inspect the thermal paste when I'm putting the thermal pads on later on.

 

[TrippyFries]

Hello! First time asking something in this forums so it may be a little long but.

I recently just got a new motherboard and CPU for my PC to upgrade from an old system, it was from a Intel core i5 4670 into a Ryzen 5 5600, with a Asrock b550m pro4, and a XFX rx 570 4gb GPU (pretty old I know, currently saving up for a new one later on)
and the GPU temps before the upgrade, under load on a fairly new game it tops out at 75-79°C max, but after I switched to the new CPU and motherboard the GPU temps seems to be higher than usual even breaking into 80-89°C on some games.

I did hear that I should format windows and get a fresh install, but the computer I have is a shared computer with my sibling and I don't know what stuff they have on the disk.
So I'm waiting until they have the time to back up or move files before I can do that

But I have a feeling that that isn't the problem since I saw that it's not really mandatory, but what do I know, I'm not really an expert at computer stuff yet.

So I'm wondering if anyone has or knows about this problem

AN UPDATE TO THIS: After a day in a computer shop getting it formatted since I've had some problems, I turned the computer on again and the overheating problem is gone, it went back to its 75C temp whilst gaming, and it barely hits 79C anymore

So it seems to me that the main problem was something to do when I switched from Intel to AMD.
but even when that was the case I want to thank thestryker and Lutfij for giving me the insight I needed, I learned a lot from you guys thanks a lot