New Gigabyte X570 BIOSes adds three profiles positions for the chipset fan
Where the ASUS and MSI boards are silent to in-audible with the chipset fan for the X570 motherboards, Gigabyte kinda messed it up. Users reported high pitch whines and a lot of noise with the first release models of their motherboards. Gigabyte is now adding three selectable fan profiles to their new BIOSes though.
All X570 motherboards will see a firmware revision update, allowing the chipset to run at three different RPM modes. From what we heard, such an update was already available in beta. The new fan profiles are called 'silent', 'balance' and 'performance mode'. The 'silent mode' likely will be semi-passive. The new BIOS versions already can be downloaded on the Gigabyte site.
We'll be checking out a Gigabyte X570 board soon, and report back on this.
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Not upgrading before I can watercool the chipset

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If I'm not mistaken, der8auer tested a passive and simple heatsink without problems on a x570 board.
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In the x570 Aorus Master, I've yet to hear the chipset fan--it's been silent regardless of bios version. My theory is that some people hear "a fan" ramp up and down, perhaps a GPU fan initializing, etc., and they immediately think "chipset fan" as if it's the only fan in the system...

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Still gonna wait for B550

I don't trust these small non-replacable fans, they usually break after 2 years.
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I can set different fanspeed with the new 1.60 bios for my Asrock x570 Taichi. Now it's silent