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Remember a couple of days ago when Biostar leaked AMD X570 details and the photo showed a board with active chipset cooler? Well, a new photo leaked this round from Colorful and guess what? Will the annoying noise making small fans on the chipset IC make a return? We certainly hope that is not the case.
The image of the X570AK Gaming Pro spotted by Wccftech, like the Biostar Racing X570GT8, features a small fan integrated into the heatsink of the X570 chipset. By software, the fan should be able to be regulated, so potentially a reduction in the volume seems possible at lower speed, but at the expense of the cooling performance.
Rumors in advance that the X570 chipset has a comparatively high TDP in the range of 15 watts are now supported by the use of active cooling. However, this does not necessarily mean that X570 motherboards will not appear without a fan.
Other features of the X570AK Gaming Pro include ten VRM phases for powering the CPU and two additional phases for DDR4 RAM housed in four DIMM slots. Supposedly up to 64 GB of RAM are supported, with overclocking up to 3,466 MHz effective clock should be possible. Biostar has even advertised the Racing X570GT8 with up to 4,000 MHz OC. With which clock the memory controller of the new Ryzen 3000 CPUs officially works, remains uncertain, but an increase of DDR4-2933 (Ryzen 2000) on DDR4-3200 is more likely.
For the PCIe slots there should be three PCIe Gen 4 x 16 slots , but not all have 16 electrical lines. The two metal-reinforced x16 slots should be electrically configured x16 + x4 or x8 + x8work; on the third port is the label "x4". Mind you, the new standard PCI Express 4.0 brings a doubling of the data rate, which means that PCIe 4.0 x8 achieves a throughput of PCIe 3.0 x16. The three PCIe x1 slots are also given PCIe 4.0 in the report, but the interfaces of the two heat sink M.2 ports for SSDs are not discussed. In any case, it is not clear yet how many PCIe 4.0 lines will be provided by the new Ryzen CPUs (Matisse) and how many by the X570 chipset. The use of PCIe 4.0 is also considered as a possible cause of high power consumption in the chipset.
As far as I/O is concerned, the board has an audio ALC 1150 codec, HDMI, DP, LAN + WiFi (RTL8118AS-CG Gigabit) port, 2 USB 3.1 Gen 2, 5 USB 3.0 and 6 USB 2.0 ports . "In addition, there are six SATA ports and RGB lighting. Mainboards of Colorful usually do not reach the German market.
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#5670102 Posted on: 05/16/2019 11:54 PM
I had a DFI Lanparty MB couple of years ago that had a fan like that covering the chipset. It worked as long as any other MB i had, it was very stable and the fan did not make more noise than the rest of the system. It was spinning very slowly.
...and how long will that little fan last until it seizes up and causes system instability from overheating chipset chips?
I had a DFI Lanparty MB couple of years ago that had a fan like that covering the chipset. It worked as long as any other MB i had, it was very stable and the fan did not make more noise than the rest of the system. It was spinning very slowly.
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#5670116 Posted on: 05/17/2019 12:51 AM
I like the idea of a fan, that location also helps push airflow over other devices such as m.2 SSDs which high end models have been found to produce uncomfortable levels of heat.
My old Gigabyte X38-DS5 board used "silent pipe" heatsinks for the northbridge and southbridge and let me tell you, that northbridge heatsink was hotter than the surface of the sun, you could burn yourself on it (and my system had good airflow too), a small chipset fan would have been tremendous help.
Unless the fan is running at high rpm, I doubt noise would be that much of a factor, especially with modern cases designed to dampen sound.
I like the idea of a fan, that location also helps push airflow over other devices such as m.2 SSDs which high end models have been found to produce uncomfortable levels of heat.
My old Gigabyte X38-DS5 board used "silent pipe" heatsinks for the northbridge and southbridge and let me tell you, that northbridge heatsink was hotter than the surface of the sun, you could burn yourself on it (and my system had good airflow too), a small chipset fan would have been tremendous help.
Unless the fan is running at high rpm, I doubt noise would be that much of a factor, especially with modern cases designed to dampen sound.
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#5670233 Posted on: 05/17/2019 10:40 AM
Sort of amusing that no one seems to care about fans on the cpu, gpu, and psu, case fans, etc...
The main objection to a chipset fan would be noise, which won't be a problem, hopefully. Anyway, I suspect the fan may be something relevant for the pictured CVN mboard only. We'll see!
What might it be there for? PCIe 4.x support? Insane overclocking support?
could be supporting an large number of gen 4 lanes/and or 10Gbps lan fed by a 50-100gb/s xGMI link, would make alot more sense if its really high bandwidth.
if it was fed by 4 lanes of pcie like the older chipsets isn't likely to get hot enough for a fan imo.
Sort of amusing that no one seems to care about fans on the cpu, gpu, and psu, case fans, etc...
The main objection to a chipset fan would be noise, which won't be a problem, hopefully. Anyway, I suspect the fan may be something relevant for the pictured CVN mboard only. We'll see!What might it be there for? PCIe 4.x support? Insane overclocking support?
could be supporting an large number of gen 4 lanes/and or 10Gbps lan fed by a 50-100gb/s xGMI link, would make alot more sense if its really high bandwidth.
if it was fed by 4 lanes of pcie like the older chipsets isn't likely to get hot enough for a fan imo.
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#5670288 Posted on: 05/17/2019 01:32 PM
Itll give me a reason to either watercool it or find my old swiftech chipset cooler with 1/4in copper base
http://www.swiftech.com/mcx159-cu.aspx
Had it on one of my NForce2 boards back in the day.
Itll give me a reason to either watercool it or find my old swiftech chipset cooler with 1/4in copper base
http://www.swiftech.com/mcx159-cu.aspx
Had it on one of my NForce2 boards back in the day.
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I had many motherboards in the past with chipset fans and not a single one failed on me. I've even got an ancient EVGA Nforce 780i SLI FTW board thats still working.