That's good, it wouldn't have been so bad if they just had mounts for a slim 40mm fan or something.. so you can at least replace it if need be.
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PCIE Gen 4 vs Gen 3, is there any difference?
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That's good, it wouldn't have been so bad if they just had mounts for a slim 40mm fan or something.. so you can at least replace it if need be.
Then don't buy brand overhyped Asus X570 boards with chipset cooling design from anus of brand overhype marketroids.
MSI has properly designed chipset cooler basically staying always passive, if you have good case cooling. (though only Tomahawk has good VRM)
Also Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite is capable to mostly passive cooling.
My board has 2 NVMe drives installed, the chipset fan is almost completely covered by the giant GPU & it's still completely inaudible & never skipped a beat.
I've got a 16-core CPU & it's been hammered with high CPU load & GPU load (CPU Rendering, GPU Rendering, Unreal Engine, Gaming) through 2 summers. Total non-issue imo, one of the most solid boards I've ever owned.
Only mitigating factor (perhaps) is that I believe the NVMe drives aren't the fastest type (I'm not really I/O constrained like a video editor or compositor might be), so maybe the Chipset isn't pushed too hard.