I bought a Sapphire Pulse RX5700XT Be about three months ago. It's slightly different to the normal Pulse in that it doesn't have the dual BIOS switch and it has one less heat pipe.
I replaced the thermal paste about a month ago just out of curiosity and with that and an undervolt, I managed to get it to a max of 66 deg edge, 76 junction locked at 60FPS at 1440p for hours of gaming which I was pretty pleased with.
Because I've been enjoying the tweaking, I decided next to try to replace the thermal pads. In doing so, I've done another repaste (with the same tube of almost new MX4) and the junction temp shot up to 105 almost instantly in a Heaven benchmark. I redid it again and it was even worse. Turned out I'd missed a couple of corners on the die with the paste. Redid it a third time with more paste and now it's slightly better but the difference between edge and junction is at least 30 degrees at all times e.g. 70 and 100. I have noticed a couple of degrees lower on the memory temps though, from 66 to 64 with the new pads, but then I've not been able to run it for longer than five minutes!
Gutted. Any suggestions of getting the temperatures back to where they were?
I replaced the thermal paste about a month ago just out of curiosity and with that and an undervolt, I managed to get it to a max of 66 deg edge, 76 junction locked at 60FPS at 1440p for hours of gaming which I was pretty pleased with.
Because I've been enjoying the tweaking, I decided next to try to replace the thermal pads. In doing so, I've done another repaste (with the same tube of almost new MX4) and the junction temp shot up to 105 almost instantly in a Heaven benchmark. I redid it again and it was even worse. Turned out I'd missed a couple of corners on the die with the paste. Redid it a third time with more paste and now it's slightly better but the difference between edge and junction is at least 30 degrees at all times e.g. 70 and 100. I have noticed a couple of degrees lower on the memory temps though, from 66 to 64 with the new pads, but then I've not been able to run it for longer than five minutes!
Gutted. Any suggestions of getting the temperatures back to where they were?