Friday, August 3rd 2018
ASUS Gives Away Cooling Kits for its Socket TR4 Motherboards
To cope better with AMD 2nd generation Ryzen Threadripper processors, which come with up to four active dies on the MCM (multi-chip module), ASUS is giving away free Cooling Kits to owners of its socket TR4 motherboards, such as the ROG Zenith Extreme, ROG Strix X399-E Gaming, and Prime X399-A. The kits include a fan bracket that lets you strap a 40 mm fan onto your CPU VRM heatsink, and a so-called "SoC heatsink," designed to cool the SoC power phase MOSFETs (which now have to cope with the load of four SoC dies). The kit for the Zenith Extreme also includes a 10 mm-thick 40 mm fan, which plugs into one of your 4-pin PWM headers. The kit will neither be included with current or upcoming inventories of unsold X399 motherboards by ASUS. Customers who need it will have to contact their local ASUS office, which will verify the purchase of their ASUS X399 motherboard, and ship their kit for free.
Source:
4gamers
17 Comments on ASUS Gives Away Cooling Kits for its Socket TR4 Motherboards
Whole bunch of greedy bullshit.
Yeah buildzoid could show you on his absolute hardcore youtube channel.
It's just the same companies making them for both chipsets.
I have it for the moment. Not for much longer as I'll return to X99. Anyway...
Zenith Extreme (running 1920X, with hindsight should have went with 1900x) after nearly 11 months of use. One of the worst cooled boards in history of motherboards. Ironically VRM section as long as you run stock setup or just with boost clock to 3.7 is OK.* You can touch the radiator with bare hand without risk of burns. 4GHz OC, have fire extinguisher nearby. Chipset cooks itself in matter of moments. Especially on ridiculously hot summer days like right now. I removed NVMe drive from under the shroud to reduce the heat, but it still hits 65C just like that :snapfingers:. That's retarded. I haven't seen temps like that on chipset since X58 and n680i. Using universal waterblock is tricky. 1. Its not EVGA board, so you voiding all warranties from Asus and basically you're on your own. 2. Chipset is very close to slot so you can't use AICs longer than PCI-Ex slot itself. 3. From what I read you can easily strip the threads from screws used to mount this worthless piece of shroud which makes whole operation quite perilous to begin with.
* - OC Threadripper is bonkers idea. For 300-500 MHz more, you gain 10 ‰ more "performance" and draw 100% more power which is totally f*up idea. Period.
I understand, they could done better job, but below 70-75C is really nothing for components.
Before 10-20 years hardware worked under much worse conditions, but it's fact ...electronic was little higher quality.
If customers are so frustrated maybe ASUS really should think to give free these kits.
I wait their new Maximus Code/Apex line, when i9-9900K show up and Z390 chipset I will check difference and maybe saved price on Maximus X series not XI.
For my needs i9-9900K is best. I never made mistake with processor platform choice and I have feeling that i9-9900K will be great long time investment, 4-6 years.
And yea, it didn't cost me anything either, except 5 minutes of my time, since I already had the fan and bracket in the garage :D
They continue putting big blocks of almuninium with minimum surface area and slap pieces of Plastic with RGB over the "heatsinks" to ensure they don't get air flow from the rear exhaust fan.
Now they try to do this band-aid fix on the Zenith, and still they couldn't do it right, put a fan blowing at the top plate instead of across what little fins it has is the worse way to do it.
My Asrock X399 does fine under the tropical heat as well, it doesn't have the best heat-sink design either,
but at least Asrock has enough common sense not to cover it with a chunk of plastic to make it"Gamery".
Asus completely cover the auxiliary heat-sink and put a whiny little fan inside the shroud and hope that it can pull enough air through the tiny slits.