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Question Asus Dark Hero X570 Motherboard's Passive Chipset Cooling Question

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Dave3000

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I might get the Asus Dark Hero X570 motherboard along with a 5800x because it's an X570 with passive chipset cooling and I in the past found motherboard chipset fans too noisy (I used to own an EVGA nForce 780i motherboard that included an optional chipset fan and found that fan noisy). Anyone here that owns the Asus Dark Hero X570 find the passive cooling adequate for cooling the chipset when the chipset is put under high loads?
 
The fan on my X570 Tomahawk rarely (if ever) spins. Obviously never at desktop use. That's with balanced fan profile for chipset fan. There's silent option too and I doubt it would ever spin in a case with decent airflow.

So yeah, definitely possible to cool it passively.
 
That’s a lot of money to spend on a motherboard but I’m not sure of your budget.
I can say the fan on my x570 steel legend runs all the time but I cannot perceive the noise from it over the other fans.
 
The fan on my Asrock Taichi x570 runs constantly, but it is very quiet. My worry is about it failing, because I don't monitor it anymore.
 
Muadib said:
The fan on my Asrock Taichi x570 runs constantly, but it is very quiet. My worry is about it failing, because I don't monitor it anymore.
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Same here, however I bet it would be easy to place a 120/140mm fan right over (on my board) 80-90% of the chipset heat sink.
I bet that would work pretty good at cooling.
 
The limited reviews that I saw didn't mention any issues with the cooling. However, the fan on my Asus MB is not audible. Now the VRM fans on my Asus Zenith II where very noticeable when they kicked on and the major reason I went with a mono block.
 
My dark hero chipset never gets above around 58-60C peak. It's plenty cool as long as you have some airflow in your case to prevent stagnating hot air.

If you have an open air double/triple fan GPU it will blow air directly at it and help keep it thermally stable.

My temps are with a water-cooled GPU so no airflow directly at the heatsink.
 
Depending on the orientation of your case, some panels open on the right most on the left, if you have a left opening panel your chipset will be by the base of case and if there's a platform you can rest a super quiet cougar 140mm fan over it, that'll help keep it cool no matter if it's hot or not.
 
Fanatical Meat said:
That’s a lot of money to spend on a motherboard but I’m not sure of your budget.
I can say the fan on my x570 steel legend runs all the time but I cannot perceive the noise from it over the other fans.
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ive been building computers since 1995. We had the same problems back then fans on chipsets that failed early on now between 2005 and 2012 all chipset fans mostly disappeared. Chipset fans are always due to size sleeve bearing they wear out quickly 2k to 6k hours of use and make hella noise hella irritating noise as they mature in use which is why mobo manufacturers wisely ditched them. Now I have always used cases this century that have case fans on the SIDE of the case usually the option to mount TWO side by side, these would blow fresh air into the case onto the chipset and the video card, you see where im going with this? NOW all cases have NO case fans along the side because yall want your LED bling to shine like a christmas tree. The solution is cases with side fans that went out of favor a few years ago you could still have a window and two 120 mm fans, I wish cases would go back to this design. Problem solved. Personally I use a coolermaster stacker 830 case for my personal rig and can still see all the led bling just fine without it being overly obtrusive. a 570 chipset fan WILL FAIL and FAIL EARLY. looks like i'll have to purchase some heat sinks to remedy this problem for my next build.
 
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