- Mar 27, 2018
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Hello friends, I recently swapped out my reference RX480's cooling with an Artic accelero mono plus. Everything seems fine until I try and play a video game. MSI afterburner shows wildly fluctuating watts (30 - 110) and this caused me to suspect perhaps my power supply was at fault here, but I popped the card into my brother's computer with a more premium power supply and the same issue arose. Did i perhaps damage my rx 480 during installation of the aftermarket cooler?
Edit: Within the 10 seconds I can get Heaven's benchmark running, temperature never rose past 55C and leaving my computer on idle the GPU stays at 30C.
Edit 2: I put my reference cooler back on and the card works perfectly fine. I assume I am improperly cooling the VRMs because looking at other people's builds, they dont even cool their VRAM which I went out of my way to do.
Edit: Within the 10 seconds I can get Heaven's benchmark running, temperature never rose past 55C and leaving my computer on idle the GPU stays at 30C.
Edit 2: I put my reference cooler back on and the card works perfectly fine. I assume I am improperly cooling the VRMs because looking at other people's builds, they dont even cool their VRAM which I went out of my way to do.
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