Msi Rx480 gaming x throttling at 60c

[Lustrum]

Hi, since last month i am having this problem. Card used to run perfectly fine before that. Whenever it reaches 58-60c it starts to throttle increasing with the rise in temeperature. Also the gpu fans run at 85% automatically at these temperatures.The core clocks drop to as low as 600mhz if the temperature reaches 61c. I know this is not a software issue because i have tested this card on 2 diffrent pcs and have done all the things(gpu bios flash,increasing power limit etc etc). So what could be wrong with my gpu? Is it that the thermal paste is dried out? If so then why are my temps reported so low? Help please, thanks!

[CodeSculptor]

In my case it happened to be a hardware fault of RX480's chipset. I had temperature capped at 60C accompanied with annoying stuttering caused by another issue: ULPS that was making GPU clock go crazy (https://community.amd.com/thread/176003). Stress tests with MSI Kombustor could easily cause crash of GPU (so I still could hear and control music player, but screen was off and driver restart with Ctrl+Shift+Win+B didn't help - I had to restart my PC each time). After hours spent on testing different configuration setups, I took my PC to local repair shop. They replaced chipset and took $100 for the work. My RX480 is working fine for more than a year already and I don't care now whether I use Wattman, Afterburner or anything else.