Question Do most people need the fan on their X570 motherboard?

[JimKiler]

I have had my X570 mobo for a month and the fan on it is covered by the GPU but it spins quietly and my motherboard temp is never high. Is the fan needed for me or only for people who are really taxing the PCIE 4 lanes?

 

[Furious_Styles]

I had a Socket 939 nForce mobo and when the southbridge fan died the mobo stopped working. But those spun at a constant speed. Hopefully these will last longer since fan technology is light years ahead of nforce motherboards.

As a tangent, i had a dual core Althon on that board and i sold it for $200 on eBay which was enough to build an entire AM2+ rig at the time using previous gen stuff but it was crazy how cheap i could build an AM2 PC when AM3 came out.

Yeah some of those nforce boards were notorious for unreliability. The AM3 days certainly weren't AMD's finest days either.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I had a Socket 939 nForce mobo and when the southbridge fan died the mobo stopped working. But those spun at a constant speed. Hopefully these will last longer since fan technology is light years ahead of nforce motherboards.

As a tangent, i had a dual core Althon on that board and i sold it for $200 on eBay which was enough to build an entire AM2+ rig at the time using previous gen stuff but it was crazy how cheap i could build an AM2 PC when AM3 came out.

Holy crap! I wonder what my Q9650 & P5Q(?) with 8GB would fetch on eBay?

 

[JimKiler]

Holy crap! I wonder what my Q9650 & P5Q(?) with 8GB would fetch on eBay?

Keep in mind this was back in the day but it was a lot of money for a dead platform at the time. The same could be said for my 4790K that i just upgraded. I could sell it on eBay for almost $200.

 

[lopri]

There is no way to keep the thing cool without a fan. On my X570 it idles at 50C with the fan on, and the temp rises up to 60C with moderate HDD and USB activities. It has the optional "zero-RPM" feature in the BIOS but between the temperature and the start-up noise I just leave it on running at all times. Start-up noise generated by the fan's motor is quite annoying.

 

[JimKiler]

There is no way to keep the thing cool without a fan. On my X570 it idles at 50C with the fan on, and the temp rises up to 60C with moderate HDD and USB activities. It has the optional "zero-RPM" feature in the BIOS but between the temperature and the start-up noise I just leave it on running at all times. Start-up noise generated by the fan's motor is quite annoying.

I guess we will be drooling when the fanless X670 mobo's arrive.

Crazy to think USB and SSD activity raises temps 10 degrees.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I have a spare be quiet 120mm fan lying around maybe I’ll do what the tomshardware guy did in the picture.
Any recommendations as to what desktop app I should use to monitor the chipset temperature?

 

[Muadib]

I have a spare be quiet 120mm fan lying around maybe I’ll do what the tomshardware guy did in the picture.
Any recommendations as to what desktop app I should use to monitor the chipset temperature?

I was told to use HWinfo64 with Ryzen chips. I have no idea why, but I went with it.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I was told to use HWinfo64 with Ryzen chips. I have no idea why, but I went with it.

Cool thanks, I have some free time tomorrow. I’ll load it up.

 

[Stevae]

I have had my X570 mobo for a month and the fan on it is covered by the GPU but it spins quietly and my motherboard temp is never high. Is the fan needed for me or only for people who are really taxing the PCIE 4 lanes?

Here's the thing, for most people on most mobos, it stays off most of the time. But, we've all learned at some point in life, that it's better to have and not need something than to need and not have it. So unless you can buy the Aorus Extreme, these fans are needed when they are needed. And you never know when you will need to really tax your sys to achieve something important. I never want my sys to tell me it can't do something that I really need done...