Farcry 5 overheats GPU

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My R9 390X overheats while I play Farcry 5 but does not over heat when in the game options menu. When in game menu or options it will go to about 45 to 55c. It will spike up to 90c in about 30 second to 1 min while playing the actual game. I've run MSI after burner and I watched it climb to 85c before I hard shut it down. Other cases my PC will freeze. I've even turned up the fan speed up to no avail and even tried to water cool it and it get to about 70c to 80c so any ideas why only Farcry 5 would send my GPU's heat super high? I've ran Diablo 3 and it stays about 60 to 65c so I see no outside there. I have not tried any other games or benchmarks. I've looked at the card and see no broken caps or any other signs of damage. So idk what to do? Any help is appreciated.
 
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Have your overclocked you gpu at all, these are quite extreme figures. When you say you tried to watercool it what do you mean exactly you tried? It sound like there is a cooling problem all together as I would not expect temps of 60+ in diablo.
If you have tried watercooling I assume you have disassembled the cooling of the gpu, did you apply thermal paste when appplying coooling to the card?
 
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These days games can cook your GPU depending on resolution/graphics settings. I remember when I got my first Titan X(second hand) & tried playing 'Dying Light' in 4k... the card got so incredibly hot. I remember trying to touch it(oops) and it felt like touching a hot kettle.
Make sure your case has plenty of air flow & if your card is an older one, replace the thermal paste on it with something high quality(Grizzly Kryonaut is best). Make sure the heatsink/fans are cleaned out of dust/dirt. Getting a GPU bracket and switching to water cooling is also a good idea.
 
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The R9 390x is slight overclocked from the factory, instead of 1050MHz its 1060MHz. I was having a heat problem where my PC would freeze, i was able to figure out the main issue of it freezing which was my VRM was getting super hot because of the motherboards bios turbo setting which i had to disable. it worked fine for a bit then the freezing came back, so i check on the GPU and i noticed it was getting pretty hot, so i bought a water block for the GPU and it still was not working, so i took the water block off and put the heatsink back and still got the same results, Ive used thermal paste which is arctic silver 5 (which i heard was pretty good and used it on my CPU with no problem) on it and always cleaned it before putting the heatsink or waterblock on my GPU.
 
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I have not tried Grizzly Kryonaut thermal paste, ive ued arctic silver 5 with no problem on my CPU's but i will check that out. My GPU is pretty cleaned out too, no dust, but ive also tried to use a water block on it and still seems to get hot.
 
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The thermal compound you used should have worked well anyways. Try setting your gpus settings to stock speeds and see if any difference is made, How is the airflow in your case? How many intake/outake fans do you have? And how is your gpu positioned in the case?
 
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I have two intake fans and two outtake fans, I've taken a really good look again at my GPU and decided to really make sure its cleaned. i was able to run Farcry 5 stably at 70c once I super cleaned it, I don't know if that's still danger zone or not and the GPU is in a custom PC desk design Ive made, but I made sure its near the two intake fans to give it fresh air. I also tried stock speeds and it seems Farcry 5 pushes the R9 390x to its max even thought I did lower the graphic settings in Farcry 5 itself.
 
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Yes I have, I borrowed a RX 580 from a friend to see if it gets better and the RX580 has been a lot better in temps in Farcry 5 then the R9 390X so I wonder if the R9 390X is dieing or the R9 390X is not powerful enough for Farcry 5?
 
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Double check your driver version, apparrantly the best version to be running is the 18.3.4 optional version.
 
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