X570 Chipset Fan and why I'm waiting for X670

sadbuttrue said:
It's not a rumour. I give you the AsRock Z490 PG Velocita:

Granted, the lower end boards may be fanless.
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That is shocking. It's like Asrock decided a little chipset fan was a great unique selling point that everyone wanted, so they would make it even better by adding three of the little buggers to the Intel boards. It's madness, those things are never a good idea.
 
I had saved up and was waiting to buy a new x570 motherboard and Zen 2 CPU upon release last year when I learned about the new "active-cooling" chipset fan as a new must-have feature.
I had previously experienced multiple chipset fan issues many years ago on several motherboards and vowed to avoid chipset fans in the future.
So when the x570 chipset fan made an appearance last year, that translated into a no-buy from me.
I couldn't afford a Gigabyte x570 Aorus Xtreme, so I bought an ASUS x470 Crosshair VII instead, 32GB of RAM and an AMD 3600X to go in it.
I am very pleased with what I bought and have no regerts.
I will add that I sometimes think I should have saved some £ and bought the AMD 3600 instead or maybe spent more £ on a 3700X or 3800X, but I am 100% convinced I bought the right motherboard.
 
ubersonic said:
Worth noting that the 60k hours figure is operational hours (I know you understood that hence the 24/7 calc but some reading may not), for the average motherboard it will take decades if not centuries for one of the PCH fans to actually hit it's life expectancy.
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If your chipset fan starts to spin and stops to spin for no more than two times per day, then this is a valid argument. Otherwise, life expectation will be drastically lower than the official MTBF, because the transition from stop to start and the transition from start to stop are the worst to wear out the durability fast.
 
sadbuttrue said:
It's not a rumour. I give you the AsRock Z490 PG Velocita:
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The thing that worries me here is that they don't look like the server grade fans you see on X570, they look more like the old 50p jobs you saw on motherboards 10-15 years ago which ended up responsible for most of the irrational fear of X570 fans.
 
Paul_RD said:
I had saved up and was waiting to buy a new x570 motherboard and Zen 2 CPU upon release last year when I learned about the new "active-cooling" chipset fan as a new must-have feature.
I had previously experienced multiple chipset fan issues many years ago on several motherboards and vowed to avoid chipset fans in the future.
So when the x570 chipset fan made an appearance last year, that translated into a no-buy from me.
I couldn't afford a Gigabyte x570 Aorus Xtreme, so I bought an ASUS x470 Crosshair VII instead, 32GB of RAM and an AMD 3600X to go in it.
I am very pleased with what I bought and have no regerts.
I will add that I sometimes think I should have saved some £ and bought the AMD 3600 instead or maybe spent more £ on a 3700X or 3800X, but I am 100% convinced I bought the right motherboard.
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Except you have no upgrade route. Appreciate hindsight is a wonderful thing. Hopefully they'll somehow get zen3 working for you board though with a hack, even if amd say no.

Why are people so bothered about this fan? It's like people want to find something to moan about.

Mine doesn't even turn on other than at boot.

Also, recent mobos in the hedt Intel space have had fans. X79 rampage extreme...

Plus its a simple heatsink and fan. Easy peasy to repair or replace or water cool in the future.
 
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lnoton said:
Except you have no upgrade route. Appreciate hindsight is a wonderful thing. Hopefully they'll somehow get zen3 working for you board though with a hack, even if amd say no.
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Is it already confirmed that the upcoming B550 will come with chipset fan, or that it will be incompatible with Zen 3 4000 series CPUs?
 
lnoton said:
Except you have no upgrade route. Appreciate hindsight is a wonderful thing. Hopefully they'll somehow get zen3 working for you board though with a hack, even if amd say no.
Why are people so bothered about this fan? It's like people want to find something to moan about.
Mine doesn't even turn on other than at boot.
Also, recent mobos in the hedt Intel space have had fans. X79 rampage extreme...
Plus its a simple heatsink and fan. Easy peasy to repair or replace or water cool in the future.
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Oh well, I bought the x470 in good faith in mid-2019 with the information available to me at the time.
When I next upgrade, it will give me a good excuse to get an x670/x770 as well as the CPU at sometime in the future.
My x470 will continue anyway in one of my other computers (I have a Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 and two ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0's in my other computers - the x470 can replace the Gigabyte).
I have no regerts about buying the x470, it is a really nice board and I am sure I will get many years of additional use out of it after I upgrade my main PC.
Needless to say, if the x670/x770 boards still have that fan, I ain't buying! :D
 
Paul_RD said:
Oh well, I bought the x470 in good faith in mid-2019 with the information available to me at the time.
When I next upgrade, it will give me a good excuse to get an x670/x770 as well as the CPU at sometime in the future.
My x470 will continue anyway in one of my other computers (I have a Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 and two ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0's in my other computers - the x470 can replace the Gigabyte).
I have no regerts about buying the x470, it is a really nice board and I am sure I will get many years of additional use out of it after I upgrade my main PC.
Needless to say, if the x670/x770 boards still have that fan, I ain't buying! :D
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X470 will serve you well, no doubts about that.
 
When i saw these it reminded me of the old a-bit boards with the fans on lol
I'd defnitely be getting B550 over 570 just for no chipset fan
 
voidshatter said:
I guess now you have one less excuse to ditch your X470 as AMD reverted their decision xD
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Thanks for the info - much obliged to you - I was unaware of their decision change until your post.
I really like this x470 board and its good to know that I have a few more future options now available for it.
 
Fan is a non issue. And if its the only reason to not buy x570 it seems very odd decision making. It it were part of a collective then fair enough, obs I would rather not have a fan.

But I have a much better motherboard in every respect. If my fan breaks in the next 7 years I'll post back here and let you all know! But it won't.
 
lnoton said:
Fan is a non issue. And if its the only reason to not buy x570 it seems very odd decision making. It it were part of a collective then fair enough, obs I would rather not have a fan.

But I have a much better motherboard in every respect. If my fan breaks in the next 7 years I'll post back here and let you all know! But it won't.
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Same here no issue at all
 
I think B550 boards will be popular due to price and no chipset fan, hard to argue with what you get and all the top brands ie Asus, MSI,ASRock,Gigabyte all have their B550 boards up with pics and specs at their websites, Gigabyte B550 Master and ASROCK Taichi B550 look nice to me.
 
I think the B550 boards are looking great but for the love of god why the hush hush lets not disrupt the B550 launch by not talking about X670? All I want is to make an informed decision on something that I'll have to live with for years to come
 
BigBANGtheory said:
I think the B550 boards are looking great but for the love of god why the hush hush lets not disrupt the B550 launch by not talking about X670? All I want is to make an informed decision on something that I'll have to live with for years to come
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There is always something new down the road, end of the day I just upgrade when I need and want to, I don't worry about next year or year after etc or you would never buy lol .
 
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