My GPU’s fans spin either at 100% or stand still. they rarely ever dip below 1000rpm, and if so, only shortly (see images below). This worries me, and I am 99% sure I’ll refund that card, but before buying a new one, I want to make sure the fault is not with my system. This is my first AMD GPU and I am pretty green in Linux.

So far I tried adjusting the GPU’s fan curve, with fan-control and CoreCtrl but it didn’t change the erratic fan behavior.

I checked my BIOS for 0rpm mode, but couldn’t find anything. It also only let’s me configure CPU and sys fan curves.

Is there anything I can try before sending the card back to fix these issues or -best case- verify the card is actually causing the issue? I’d hate to get a replacement and face the same issues again.

specs

Linux Mint GPU: acer AMD RX7600XT CPU: AMD Ryzen 5800x RAM: 16GB DDR4 @3600mHz; G.Skill Tridentz Neo MoBo: MSI B550Pro-A

images

Temperature and fan curves over the span of 20min; green = fan rpm, yellow is GPU junction temp, blue is GPU edge temp

Temperature and fan curves over the span of 20min; green curve is fan rpm, yellow curve is GPU junction temp, blue curve is GPU edge temp

Update I REMed it and will get the same.card again, but from a different, more widely adopted vendor. I don’t want to spent another week troubleshooting an issue I may not have the skill to fix.

Thank you all for your input :)

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
    2·
    16 hours ago

    Some vendors also have multiple BIOS-es on the same GPU card (like one overclocked BIOS, and the other is a “normal” BIOS).

    You could check if there is a physical switch to switch between modes on your GPU. And see if the other GPU BIOS is also behaving like this.