New AMD Chipset coming soon - X570S (Passive X570)

LePhuronn · 28 Jul 2021 at 14:42

The Crosshair VIII Dark Hero is available pretty much everywhere. There's even a couple of 8Pack Extreme bundles on OcUK.

Simon D · 28 Jul 2021 at 15:35

I am looking at the X570S Aorus Master, but I am waiting for memory to be return from RMA

pcuser · 28 Jul 2021 at 15:39

That's good news. Looking forward to hear your opinion. It seems to me that Gigabyte has done excellent job with X570S. Hopefully they have managed to sort out the USB issues that some are complaining about.

StephenJ · 28 Jul 2021 at 21:18

I think MSI has also launched a number of x570s boards

pcuser · 28 Jul 2021 at 23:40

I think Asrock also has one X570S but it seems basic to me.

LePhuronn said:
The Crosshair VIII Dark Hero is available pretty much everywhere. There's even a couple of 8Pack Extreme bundles on OcUK.

Looks great on paper but personally I lean towards Gigabyte for AM4.

Minstadave · 28 Jul 2021 at 23:53

LePhuronn said:
The Crosshair VIII Dark Hero is available pretty much everywhere. There's even a couple of 8Pack Extreme bundles on OcUK.

The original was X570 not X570S. Or is the silicon unchanged and it simply means any fanless board?

StephenJ · 28 Jul 2021 at 23:57

Minstadave said:
The original was X570.not X570S. Or is the silicon unchanged and it simply means any fanless board?

This is something i would love to know

pcuser · 29 Jul 2021 at 00:28

Minstadave said:
The original was X570 not X570S. Or is the silicon unchanged and it simply means any fanless board?

I believe Asus Dark Hero is X570 with some refinements and passive cooling.

MadMatty · 29 Jul 2021 at 10:08

All the current reviews of X570S boards have skipped over the topic of the X570 and X570S being different chip revisions or not. Like they don't want to or not allowed to answer that burning question.

Minstadave · 29 Jul 2021 at 10:12

Looks the same size die, wondered if they'd gone to a smaller process as I think the original X570 was 14nm.

StephenJ · 29 Jul 2021 at 10:40

It looks the same odd that reviews are not saying, unless it is because they are the same and don't want the question asked why did it have a fan in the original boards if the chip-set has not changed.

pcuser · 29 Jul 2021 at 14:12

In my mind there must be a change in order to allow the fanless operation. Also if rumours are true X570S is to support 5th series CPU straight out of the box.

LePhuronn · 29 Jul 2021 at 14:37

Minstadave said:
The original was X570 not X570S. Or is the silicon unchanged and it simply means any fanless board?

Well I never, it is actually a passive X570 with some VRM cooling upgrades rather than officially X570S. You learn something new every day.

pcuser · 24 Aug 2021 at 11:44

It's been some time now since some have got the new X570S chipset. Can you share your thoughts and do you have any USB issues?

Trox · 24 Aug 2021 at 11:48

I've had my x570s Aorus Master for around 4 weeks so far no dramas or issues to report...

Just to note, It came with F1 BIOS which I updated to F2 the same day.

Minstadave · 24 Aug 2021 at 12:39

pcuser said:
It's been some time now since some have got the new X570S chipset. Can you share your thoughts and do you have any USB issues?

I thought the USB issues were fixed now on X570. I had some issues earlier in the year but a BIOS update fixed them all.

pcuser · 24 Aug 2021 at 14:14

Trox said:
I've had my x570s Aorus Master for around 4 weeks so far no dramas or issues to report...

Just to note, It came with F1 BIOS which I updated to F2 the same day.

Good news.
Cheers Trox. May I ask what processor are you using?

Minstadave said:
I thought the USB issues were fixed now on X570. I had some issues earlier in the year but a BIOS update fixed them all.

I think I read somewhere that people were having issues even with the new AGESA.

Trox · 24 Aug 2021 at 16:19

pcuser said:
Good news.
Cheers Trox. May I ask what processor are you using?

I'm running mine with a 5900x.

I would say that Gigabyte software isnt that great though.

pcuser · 24 Aug 2021 at 16:48

Trox said:
I'm running mine with a 5900x.

I would say that Gigabyte software isnt that great though.

Is that drivers or the Fusion lighting?

VersionMonkey · 24 Aug 2021 at 19:15

So far so good with my X570S Aorus Master (just under 4 weeks daily use). Popped the 5950X, RAM and GPU in and it booted straight up. I'm still on the F1 BIOS.

I disabled the option in the BIOS to automatically install the Gigabyte app centre stuff and haven't found any need for Gigabyte software apart from installing the system information viewer briefly to set the right labels on the temperature sensors in HWInfo64.

I experiented a little with the chipset temps. If you get some airflow over the chipset heatsink it seemed to stay around 30-35c. Installed in the case with less directed airflow it stays between 55-65c.

Quite like that you can use the BIOS fan control to set up a curve based on any temperature sensor, so have the radiator fans running off the motherboard headers based on the water temperature.