The only thing that seems to really stress the chipset is NVMe drives, particularly running two at the same time.
There’s not really that much else on it, USB, SATA and so on.
Sorry, that's a hard pass from me...@GIGA-Man - i'll take the Xtreme and Master as settlement for the upcoming, relentless weeks of torment i'm about to suffer. I'll gift you the Master - call it your commission for settling out of court.
Yea me too, which was why I was eager when I seen it on the site.@Jacknm2
im surprised its being released a while before 16 core 3950x ...
me personally, would go Aorus Master , £300 saving is hard not to ignore - no its not as pretty but its a damn good board none the less!
Yeah, that's a nicely designed board (no m.2. slots getting in the way - and very orange!) - this could have possibly been implemented on a select mid-range x570. Stick the first m.2. slot beneath the motherboard and then there would be easy access for a heatpipe from the VRM to the PCH (perhaps an extra low-profile heatsink, en-route (?)) - very much like the above but only servicing PCH/VRM (although route pass the memory slot seems simple enough on the Xtreme.). Wonder if this would have been enough for the lower/mid-range boards? That all said - probably way more expense with production/materials... :/@Plec
your dream... was done by gigabyte many moons ago... a proper heatsink design.. also they had done fins on the vrms way before too...
You realise you've given Orbi free reign to smack me around the head with the Xtreme at every given opportunity now - he's even starting to drip the words "10 core INTEL" into my ear, and "not to wait too long"...Sorry, that's a hard pass from me...
I've just checked and I'm still on bios F2. I don't know if it's worth me flashing to a newer version until the problems have been ironed out. I really would like to get my chip a bit cooler though. 38-40 idle and 75-78 running cinebench R20 seems a tad high to me. Using a H100i AIO.
True - wouldn't be surprised if don't start seeing a 'Heath Robinson' approach to that appearing on YouTube...@Plec is someone was smart and had CNC- could easily make high quality heatsinks for the market
with the master - could have just done heat pipe to backplate...
I prob couldnt even lift that board !!!!!!!!
Agree with Orbi - idle temps are nothing to be concerned about and your synthetic stress temps are fine.I've just checked and I'm still on bios F2. I don't know if it's worth me flashing to a newer version until the problems have been ironed out. I really would like to get my chip a bit cooler though. 38-40 idle and 75-78 running cinebench R20 seems a tad high to me. Using a H100i AIO.
Well after the above posts, I decided to chance a 5 minute Prime95 test. Bit shocked at the results...…...My PC's blown up!......jk
No, it was a pleasant surprise. Throughout the entire test with all cores on full load, fans ramped up and according to Ryzen master and core temp, my temps never went higher than 55. That seems a staggeringly low number to me, however, it's highly unlikely that both programs are wrong. so I'm happy now that I have adequate cooling.
@robfosters running extra 4 pin btw ?