Thursday, April 22nd 2021

AMD X570S Motherboard Spotted Alongside Ryzen 7 5700G APU

AMD seems to be preparing a chipset refresh, and this time, it is coming straight from the top-end market. When the company launched its high-end X570 chipset, it brought the PCIe 4.0 support, which many praised due to its capability to handle much faster NVMe drives. However, it seems like the company is not satisfied with that and it needs to release an updated chipset version called X570S. According to a popular hardware leaker, TUM_APISAK, we have discovered that GIGABYTE is preparing X570S Aorus Pro AX motherboard that will use the refreshed chipset. GIGABYTE already listed several Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) listings, so the new chipset is sure to hit the market, just at an unknown time.

The S denotes the word silent, meaning that these updated chipsets are capable of working with passive cooling and possibly having a lower TDP compared to 11 and 15 Watts of the X570 chipsets for consumer and enterprise motherboards, respectively. The test was conducted using AMD's newly announced Ryzen 7 5700G processor. The 5000-series of APUs are so far limited to OEMs, so one would guess that GIGABYTE itself made the leak by using a public entry of CPU-Z validation.
Sources: Valid x86, via @TUM_APISAK (Twitter)
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27 Comments on AMD X570S Motherboard Spotted Alongside Ryzen 7 5700G APU

#26
Chrispy_
breakfromyouYeah, good luck with that. Not all boards can fit a chipset heatsink on the chipset...at least without vertically mounting your GPU. I'm referring to my ASRock X570 Steel Legend.

I miss the days of heatpiped VRM actual heatsinks and actual heatsinks on the northbridge. Especially when connected with a heatpipe! They worked pretty well! Though not always. I remember some chipsets like the 680i being a bit toasty...

The worst part about what's been going on lately is that you don't really have any alternatives for cooling the chipset cooler when your fan does inevitably die (HR-05, VC-RE, etc). Instead you get to complain to ASRock for 4 months until you tell them you give up up and are buying another brand board to replace it over a $3 fan, and that they've lost your business. My temporary workaround was to turn the fan speed up on the GPU and turn the fan off for the chipset. The GPU blows air into the chipset...hole? It was semi-effective. Then again I've managed to find an old Evercool VC-RF, so maybe that'd work? If a GPU is mounted vertically, of course.

My point: X570 can be annoying. Proprietary 40mm fans are annoying. Bad support is annoying. The lack of decent third-party chipset coolers is annoying. I'm happy about the X570S SKUs and hopeful that they perform well. It's exactly what we need.
I don't need luck, I know it will fit with clearance for the graphics card because it'll be no higher than the PCIe slot

The only dremelling that might be required is for a single capacitor south of the memory slots, and possibly a couple of mounting screw holes if I don't want to use epoxy.
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Hardware Geek
AleksandarKNah I don't think so lol. JK, I corrected it. :)
I knew what you meant but just wanted to give you a hard time. I do find your articles informative and well written. I do things like that all the time and usually don't notice because my brain automatically reads it the way I intended it to read but it's much easier for me to spot things like this in other people's writing.
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