I loved my old EVGA X299 Dark but the small active cooling fans it had on it were my biggest pet hate. Those tiny heatsink fans have a nasty habit of making high pitched noise. Gonna hard pass on this motherboard for that simple reason and stick with my Asus Strix Z690-E.

Looks a good motherboard for extreme overclockers, not a bad price considering. Vince is one of the true men of honor amongst overclockers unlike some I could mention, taiwanese crowd ... cough... He's been doing it since Macci and Oppainter days and then took the genre further.