I own rx6600 since more than a year and what seems odd it's a bit loud, even with fan curves like this the fans spin up to the almost 2kRPM and hot spot temp is near 95Β°C:
and it's not like my case isn't well ventilated, i have 2 Arctic P12s blowing cold air from outside of the case directly at it, playing with fancontrol and hooking my case fans speed to the GPU temp lowers it quite a bit (barely above 90Β°C and 1800RPM) but it's still a bit more than I like and it prevents me from raising my power limit to 120W, then the card is whining at almost 3kRPM
Is my sample defective? its XFX variant, mainly 210 SWFT with two fans? i heard a lot about botched heating installation in GPUs, insufficient paste amount etc, could this be it?
Had an RX 6600 in an SFF case (although it's got relatively good ventilation for an SFF case). It never went above 85 C, no matter what I played. Most of the time it was pretty happy to stay at 60's and 70's. I didn't do any over/underclocking, and I didn't adjust fan curves. Actually, I was alright with the fans - they were never very loud. So yeah, I would say that there's probably something wrong. Maybe the thermal paste isn't applied correctly?
yeah, the ambient temp is about 20 Β°C, running 100% fans gets me 85Β°C in furmark, it seems to be a case independent because getting panels off seems to effect the situation insignificantly
Huh, that is quite warm but not abnormally so; guess the cooler is just bad. Could be this particular card or just a poor design. 6600 is a "budget" card afterall.
I have the same XFX card and can't say I ever saw it running hot or loud like you're describing. I'm with the other comment, card probably needs repasted or something.
one question just to make sure, are you running it in performance or silent mode? there is a switch near the power plug, asking because there are conflicting comments/reviews/opinions online most saying it's silent and maxing at 70Β°C while fans are relatively silent and some say the cooling is loud
I didn't know about that function before but the switch is towards the PCIe power connector which from what I'm reading appears to be the performance mode? Hope that helps.