AMD ‘in hot water’?

Some RX 7900 XTXs have an attitude problem.

January 5, 2023

Jon Peddie

A lot of excitement was created when a couple of reviewers discovered the RX 7900 XTX peaked in temperature when run in a horizontal position. Some very well-run tests were performed and theories presented as to why. Was it a new vapor chamber cooling design, a thermal paste, a gravity issue, or stray neutrinos from the planet Zonar? (The last one is my favorite.)When in the horizontal position, the GPU temperature got to 105 degrees Celsius (water boils at 100 degrees Celsius). Once it reached that temperature, the self-protecting thermal controls clicked in and the clock was lowered and voltages

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