6950 xt overheat reddit Apparently the capacitors just needed a sustained load to run through them for a while. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Thermal paste pumped out in a week even though I used Thermalright TFX and Edge temperature started going very hot. My Sapphire Nitro 6950 XT was pretty new, temps however sucked for hotspot and edge (yes, even gpu temp was high, not just hotspot) so I did a repaste with Noctua H2 and it did cut them down by about 10-15 degrees, maybe more. My PowerColor RX 6950 XT Red Devil has suffered from severe overheating issues since new. I currently have a 6950 xt that is artifacting and should still be within return period, I could get a 7900 xt or even xtx…. (self. Edge tends to stick around 80. I started hitting 110C Hot Spot when the card was 4 weeks old and repasted it. Brand New AMD Radeon 6950xt Overheating I got a new 6950xt from Microcenter about 2 weeks ago. myxkm oqi rmkxny vxmeye lcu plu lhhhi pkzcri ogxc eyl aajcym twavk ulw qmac bxlrw