https://youtu.be/RVcIss7m5SM?t=478
Pause where it loads up, in regards to the xtreme sys review complaints about the heatsinks. I've been saying it for a month when seeing these motherboards, the heatsink design is all about the look, nothing about cooling. These Asus ones have a heatpipe in... but almost zero surface area when compared to the kinds of sinks that used to be on a vrm, any old standard heatsink with multiple fins for air to actually pass through the heatsink. Even with a downwards blowing Wraith Spire cooler, the air hits the board then hits the VRM heatsink and... can't go through it, because it's a solid freaking block?
The heatsinks and this weird new i/o shroud sticking over the main VRM heatsink which actually makes airflow even worse and it's mostly blocking off one side of the heat.. sink seems unfair, heatlumpofmetaldoingnotmuch seems fairer.
Jesus, some of the B350 boards seem to have been better designed, less focus on appearing sleek and heatsinks designed to function as heatsinks.
That said, that MIGHT be enough cooling on the Asus board, the more efficient your mosfets, the less they heat up at any given power level being delivered and they also have a high rating even at 125c, however, there is zero doubt that they could still be cooled better by a 'normal' heatsink design.
I was going to buy a 1700 and A board after a few weeks and narrowing down which one is any good, at this point if I buy it's because I'll be buying the board that sucks THE LEAST. These boards lack basic things like quality cooling and instead throw pointless software, fancy lights and... dual audio codecs which on the Gigabyte seems to mean, you get one for the rear panel and one for the front panel.... when every other board I've ever used just uses the same chip for both ports? Then you have the MSI with the M.2 heatshield---- which actively increases the temp of the bottom side of the m.2 drives. What has happened to motherboard production in the last 2 years at the high end?
