Question Verdict on the X570 fan noise

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

So does the fan kick on a lot? Is the fan audible?

Looking to upgrade to Ryzen 3k series for a main rig and eventually Ryzen 4k series. If there is ANY noise I'm going to either wait or possibly get an X470 board which would raise comparability questions for Ryzen 4k series.. my main rig might be able to hold up for another year but I'm dealing with small quirks here n there like having to hard reboot. So far I've gathered that the fan doesn't kick on beyond 60*c on the silent profile for Gigabyte boards, and to refer to "chipset" on HWinfo64 for the chipset temps ... On my main rig I use all SATA ports, a passive cooled GPU, a HDD/SSD power strip (turns off drives when not in use) and the rig is almost dead silent..

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Asrock x570 to my knowledge the fan always spins
Minimal noise, water pump and other fans drown out whatever noise it makes.
My machine is fairly quiet.
I did some noise measurements with an iPhone app came in around 35 decibels while running a game, I’d guess the fans were at mid speed which is typically where they are when gaming.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Thanks for the input

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[thesmokingman]

If you can hear the chipset fan, you are doing something wrong.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Very unscientific test. Image is from iPhone decibel app, held approximately 8 inches from the top center of the case.

Machine was running Civ 6 at the time
**occasionally the fans ramp up for a few seconds between turns, I tried to capture that but I couldn’t



Below may have been when the fans were running more vigorously, also could have been the cat screwing with something




Be aware this is from some dumb free app and it is running on my 2.5 year old iPhone 6 which may have crud blocking the microphone

 

[UsandThem]

Several MSI X570 motherboards have the "FROZR" fan stop feature where it doesn't spin if the heat remains low enough.

The problem being several of their entry level to mid-range motherboards have various degrees of cutting corners on the engineering of the boards (particularly the VRM design and heat) if you're going to use anything higher than an 8 core CPU. A person wanting to run a demanding CPU should really only go with their Ace motherboard and above if they plan on keeping the build for a significant period of time.

https://www.kitguru.net/components/...0-vrm-temperature-analysis-luke-deep-dive/12/
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1118642-msi-x570-boards-crappy-vrms/

 

[Ajay]

If mine even runs, I can't hear it. At load (say gaming), I don't hear anything but the sounds of my case fans and CPU HS fans (low frequency, not annoying).
I'm not running anything using PCIe 4.0, so that may be why.

 

[Mr Evil]

... an iPhone app came in around 35 decibels...

If iPhones have electret microphones like most of the microphones I've tried, it will have a noise floor around 30-35dB, so everything will appear to be at least that loud.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Hmm.. I have a halogen light bulb in my computer room that makes more noise than my main rig.. that slight humm/buzzing noise

 

[KentState]

Hell, mine has three fans on the motherboard and I've yet to hear them.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

What other disadvantages do I inherent if I go with a X470 board?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

What other disadvantages do I inherent if I go with a X470 board?

No pcie 4.0 which imo has limited value
Less IO fewer USB ports and such
Likely a limited upgrade path

I went with the x570 because I own my machines a long time and wanted future potential.

 

[Juiblex]

It's a non issue. Mine won't even fire up past 0 rpm. Even when I manually set it in the bios I can only barely tell at 100 percent rpm. Which I doubt it will ever hit.

 

[Christopher Bohling]

I just bought the Asrock X570M Pro4 and I do hear the chipset fan during boot, it's actually very loud. However, that's the only time I hear it - I don't hear it during gaming, when I'm using Handbrake, or any other kind of intensive workload.

 

[yeshua]

So does the fan kick on a lot? Is the fan audible?

Looking to upgrade to Ryzen 3k series for a main rig and eventually Ryzen 4k series. If there is ANY noise I'm going to either wait or possibly get an X470 board which would raise comparability questions for Ryzen 4k series.. my main rig might be able to hold up for another year but I'm dealing with small quirks here n there like having to hard reboot. So far I've gathered that the fan doesn't kick on beyond 60*c on the silent profile for Gigabyte boards, and to refer to "chipset" on HWinfo64 for the chipset temps ... On my main rig I use all SATA ports, a passive cooled GPU, a HDD/SSD power strip (turns off drives when not in use) and the rig is almost dead silent..

ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus (Wi-Fi) here.

No. No.

The issue is not the noise, the real issue is that every motherboard vendor uses a non-standard fan which means finding a replacement is going to be quite difficult and expensive in the future when it eventually dies (and it surely will - a chipset fan on my nForce2 based motherboard died in less than 1.5 years of use - and I barely game or run intensive CPU tasks).

Another issue is that at least on my motherboard the chipset fan is located right beneath the GPU and it's covered by it, which means a worse airflow and probably a lot more dust collected by it. After several months of use, my chipset temp has already risen by 1.5C which doesn't inspire confidence.

From what I've heard B550 motherboards will feature PCIe3 IO and will be free from this issue. Yes, they won't be as powerful as the motherboards based on the X570 chipset but I'd chose the former any time of the day.

What other disadvantages do I inherent if I go with a X470 board?

I can't think of anything other than a lack of PCIe4 support which is relevant maybe for 0.01% of people.

 

[DrMrLordX]

The chipset fan on my x570 Aorus Master, in default mode, only makes noise during POST when it spins up to max RPMs briefly. Once it spins down, that lets me know the system is stable and ready to run. Kinda handy I guess. Gigabyte patched in fan controls that weren't present at launch for this board and many of the other Aorus offerings. Now you can get the thing to run at near-0 RPM, a bit like what MSI offered from day one. With good case cooling, you don't really need the fan running anyway.

 

[sdifox]

I have no idea. My other fans are louder so I wouldn't know if the chipset fan whines.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I wonder if the 600 series mb's will still use a fan

 

[sdifox]

I wonder if the 600 series mb's will still use a fan

If they move chipset to 7nm then it should reduce thermal output enough to just need a heat sink.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

If they move chipset to 7nm then it should reduce thermal output enough to just need a heat sink.

Now that I think of it, that would be the next move for them. From what I heard the "southbridge" is the same silicon used on the Ryzen 3k series which was 14nm, for their Uncore/IF.

I don't change systems often. This rig is X58/X5690, so maybe I should just stick to what would make me happy and that just might simply be not having to worry about whether the fan will spin up or not. In the summer my computer room can get up to 90+*F. Thinking more about it, by the time Ryzen3 comes out I could repurpose the 3800X in the main rig with a 600 series board, and simply upgrade the CPU in the gaming rig to a Ryzen 4k series with my X570 rig (it's fanless)