Thursday, June 17th 2021

GIGABYTE Unleashes AMD X570S Motherboards with Fanless Chipset Cooling

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and hardware solutions announced the launch of the newest X570S AORUS series motherboards primed to unleash the potential of the recently released AMD Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors with enhanced DrMOS direct power design and 6 layers and above ultra cool PCB for higher stability. The whole series equip with a brand new passive chipset thermal design and up to four sets of high thermal efficiency armored PCIe 4.0 M.2 slots with M.2 Thermal Guard III, which ensures effective heat dissipation of full operation on chipsets and 7000 MB/s high speed operating on NVMe SSDs without throttling by overheating. The brand new X570S series motherboards kick off the PCIe 4.0 era with extensive feature sets.

The flagship X570S AORUS MASTER motherboard is fitted with a 16-phase direct digital power design for the more solid power management and optimized overclocking performance. With advanced heat dissipation technology of Fins-Array II Stacked Fins Heatsink, Direct Touch Heatpipe II and Smart Fan 6, GIGIABYTE X570S motherboards can maintain cool and high performance under high loading operation. Furthermore, GIGABYTE Active OC Tuner technology integrated in select motherboards to provide a more flexible performance improvement.
"AMD is excited for the launch of new and innovative X570 motherboards, bringing even more offerings to the AMD Socket AM4 platform," said Chris Kilburn, corporate vice president and general manager, client component business unit, AMD. "These new motherboards will continue to showcase the groundbreaking performance of the AMD Ryzen 5000 Series processors, maximizing the potential for enthusiasts, gamers, and content creators alike."

The entire X570S lineup integrates a 2.5 GbE high speed LAN while select X570S AORUS motherboards feature WIFI 6 with blazing fast 2.4 Gbps connection speeds, and even WIFI 6E 802.11ax wireless network, as well as front USB 3.2 Type-C interface for more convenient usage. Moreover, select X570S AORUS motherboards equip USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C for a more speedy data transfer up to 20 Gbps. GIGABYTE also release X570S AERO G for creators. With built-in the same level power materials, thermal planning, high-speed network, and 4 sets of PCIe 4.0 M.2 interfaces as other X570S motherboards, X570S AERO G also features the VisionLINK function that is well-received by the creators to provide them a more effective transform from ideas to creation.

"Providing users with the best product has always been Gigabyte's mission, while the top-quality AMD platform motherboards with excellent compatibility, high efficiency and low temperature demonstrates our strong strength in the development of AMD motherboards. "said Jackson Hsu, Director of the GIGABYTE Channel Solutions Product Development Division. " GIGABYTE's X570S series motherboards are developed by gamers and professional designers who pursue performance, and are enhanced by the features of 16-phase direct digital power design, advanced VRM thermal design, silent cooling design without chipset fan, several PCIe 4.0 interfaces, blazing fast LAN, updated BIOS, and R&D's adjustment. This series definitely impress the performance chaser by the performance and stability and become the perfect choice for high-end users who plans to assemble AMD platforms. "

Silent Thermal Design Demonstrates The Strong Hardware Design Power
With optimized hardware layouts design, GIGABYTE X570S motherboards equip with enlarged-surface chipset heatsink which enable the lineup upgrading to passive thermal design while maintain the same heat dissipation efficiency. This passive thermal design solve the noise problem of the X570 chipset fan, and further avoid dusting of the cooling fan which proves again GIGABYTE's leading role in the industry. The X570S motherboards features several optimized thermal designs of Fins-ArrayII, Direct Touch Heatpipe II, exclusive M.2 Thermal Guard III with doubled-thickness and double-sided heighten heatsinks on the M.2 SSD, which can boost thermal performance in a silent way. Further enhanced by Hybrid fans, multiple temperature detections, dual fan curves of 7-phase adjustment modes, and smart fan control of Smart Fan 6 Technology, promising the processor, VRM, chipset, or even the highest speed of 7000 MB/s Gen4 M.2 SSD with no throttling or performance reduce by overheating.

Enhanced Stability Of Power Supply And The Convenience Of Dynamic Overclocking
In addition to the improvements on thermal design, GIGABYTE also greatly enhanced the power supply design of the X570S motherboards to perfectly release the ultimate performance of AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors. GIGABYTE packs at least 14 phases digital power design on each ATX board in X570S AORUS Series. Applying to different requests of power consumption, GIGABYTE uses MOSFETs of upmost 90 A Smart Power Stage or DrMOS to ensure a more stable current flow, better power and thermal management while the CPU is running at its full potential, which can perfectly unleash the extreme performance and overclocking power of processors.

The high-end model X570S AORUS MASTER boasts a 16-phase direct digital power design with each Power Stage phase capable of managing up to 70A for lower impedance and improved loading balance of power phases, just like the flagship model X570 AORUS XTREME motherboard. With 16-phase to work with, the power demand is evenly processed by each phase to avoid long-time high loading operation of one single phase with further reduction of the heat and power consumption. This improve the overall power efficiency, durability and service life of the motherboard, which enabling users to maximize the overclocking potential on the AMD Ryzen 5000 desktop processors without the concerns of overclocking failures or diminished performance caused by unstable or overheated power supply.

X570S AORUS MASTER, AORUS PRO AX and AERO G models are particularly equipped with GIGABYTE's newly developed the Active OC Tuner active overclocking technology. The CPU overclocking frequency and the number of operating cores can be dynamically switched between the default precise-overclocking function PBO (Precision Boost Overdrive) and manual overclocking according to different requirements of current configuration and characteristics of running applications. This technology allows user to execute corresponding application by frequency and core numbers to enjoy the maximum performance. Users have no need to confirm the loading or whether it requires multi-cores before running different applications then struggle in the BIOS to switch between PBO and manual overclocking. With GIGABYTE Active OC Tuner active overclocking technology, users can have it both ways once they activate this function to enjoy the advantages of optimized automatic overclocking settings and an more enjoyable system operation with ease.

Storage Performance Boost By Advanced PCIe 4.0 Interface
GIGABYTE X570S AORUS motherboards boast the performance potential of PCIe 4.0 and refine the design of its motherboards to elevate the performance of peripheral components. Design features such as 6-layer and above, 2x copper PCBs with lower inductance, and a PCIe 4.0 B-CLK IC on select model to maximize the PCIe bandwidth with increasing the data transmission capacity on PCIe storage devices and boosting overclocking performance from CPUs and memory. The motherboards unlock hidden performance potential on peripheral components, allowing for blazing fast transmission speeds on these devices. GIGABYTE X570S lineup makes capital out of the PCIe 4.0 interface from the CPU and X570 chipsets, with four PCIe 4.0 M.2 slots on select models, four sets of AORUS 7000S SSDs can operate synchronizely by building a RAID array for impressive storage performance. Enhanced M.2 Thermal Guards III also successfully reduce the chances of thermal throttling and allow users to fully take advantage of the new PCIe 4.0 interface.

More Flexible Ethernet and WIFI Network With Easier High-Speed Transfer Expansions
The entire X570S lineup offers a 2.5 Gbps Ethernet connection speeds for gamers to have the faster and more stable wired network connectivity. All WIFI enabled models in the lineup feature the Intel Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax standard which delivers blazing fast 2.4 Gbps connection speeds that almost rival the 2.5 Gbps Ethernet connection speeds. X570S AORUS MASTER further builds in Intel Wi-Fi 6E 802.11ax network with 6 GHz frequency bands for a smoother connections. With both high-speed Ethernet and WIFI, users have extra flexibility and ridiculously fast connection speeds. X570S lineup also integrates front USB 3.2 Type-C interface for enhanced convenience while select AORUS X570S series motherboards adopt USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C with up to 20 Gbps bandwidth for ultrafast transfer speed. With GIGABYTE VISION DRIVE 1 TB external SSD, users can get the full benefit from this high-speed transmission.

Fan favorite and well-received features make their return to GIGABYTE X570S motherboards. Sleek aesthetics design, RGB Fusion LED lighting, Ultra durable quality, Hi-Fi audio, and many more trademark features have been further refined and added to the mix with AMD's built-in features. The entire X570S lineup comes with the newest version of Q-Flash Plus Technology. Users can easily update the BIOS without even installing a processor, memory, graphics cards, or booting up the PC so they can flash the BIOS and have no worries about not being able to boot up the system due to an unsupported BIOS version.

The Innovative X570S AERO G For Creators
GIGABYTE integrated the AERO and VISION products for creators into the AERO series to integrate product series names and increase market focus, as well as maximizing brand management and consumer product marketing strategies. Starting from the AMD platform, X570S AERO G will be released concurrently as X570S series, and the VISION series will become a part of AERO.

The new X570S AERO G adopts 14 phases all-digital power supply of high-quality Intersil PWM controller with 60 Amps per phase DrMOS design, and equips with the new fully covered heat sink of twice heat dissipation area to provide more stable and ultra cool power supply. X570S AERO G features full functions exclusive for creators, with four sets of thermal-armored PCIe 4.0 M.2 slots, promising no throttling under the overheat by heavy operation. X570S AERO G also adopts renowned VisionLINK technology, which allows for data and video transmission based on USB Type-C cable and provides pen displays power delivery up to 60W. VisionLINK technology brings the benefit of easy data transfer and convenient power charging to creators without cable clutter, which save them more time and effort for the content creation. Meanwhile, the features of 2.5 GbE Ethernet, Intel Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax wireless network, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C, front Type-C interface, and Active OC Tuner technology enable a great improvement on work efficiency for creators.

GIGABYTE X570S series motherboards use only the finest components reinforced by GIGABYTE Ultra Durable Technology with comprehensive functions. This series become the excellent choice for users seeking to build a high-end PC system and enjoy the GIGABYTE's exclusive technologies have to offer.
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40 Comments on GIGABYTE Unleashes AMD X570S Motherboards with Fanless Chipset Cooling

#26
Tigerfox
Thunderbolt has nothing to do with the chipset, it always provided by a separate controller via PCIe x4.
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#27
MxPhenom 216
ASIC Engineer
NanochipYeah. So we’ll see what happens with AM5, x670.

2022 should be a pretty exciting year with Zen4 and RDNA3 on the AMD side as well as Alder/Raptor Lake on the Intel side. Competition is heating up.
Yeah, I will be skipping out on that stuff. Going to give DDR5 a bit of time before I jump to it. Currently planning a new 5800x/5900x build to go with this 3080Ti i got.
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#28
Tomorrow
TheLostSwedeWow, it looks like Gigabyte has dropped Dual BIOS support.

I presume they are so confident that their Q-Flash Plus button will be able to re-flash the BIOS/UEFI via USB that they've decided to give up on it.
At least it seems like these new boards have 32MB chips on them.
32MB yay.
ChaitanyaGood to see Gigabyte dropping their stupid non selectable dual Bios system but unfortunately they continue to use soldered Bios chips.
Atleast on boards that lack dip switches to select BIOS. I would rather thay had kept the Dual-BIOS and added dip switches to cheaper boards too. I cant imagine those switches cost too much. Again not sure about cheaper boards but the original X570 Master and Xtreme both have one chip that is socketed. Besides i doubt other manufacturers offer socketed BIOS on their cheaper boards either.
529thOh, must be why GIGABYTE is the last X570 board to get bios updates. My Xtreme is still on F33 AGESA 1.2.0.2, my Dark Hero is on AGESA 1.2.0.3 patch a. Might be selling my Xtreme Rev 1.0
Makaveliyup from what i've seen Gigabyte and msi seems to be the slowest out of the bunch for bios updates.
Before making such a knee jerk reaction and statement you would do well to do some research. Gigabyte is among the fastest to release BIOS updates but they are also more conservative and instead of uploading potentially unstable BETA version to their main site they upload them in the Tweaktown forum: www.tweaktownforum.com/forum/tech-support-from-vendors/gigabyte/28656-gigabyte-latest-beta-bios
Originally posted by stasio View Post

New Beta BIOS.....

X570 series

F34a / F35a.....on first page

B550 series

B550 AORUS MASTER - F13l
B550 AORUS ELITE - F13j
B550 AORUS ELITE AX - F14b
B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 - F13k
B550 AORUS ELITE V2 - F13j
B550M AORUS ELITE - F13j
B550 AORUS PRO - F13j
B550 AORUS PRO AC - F13l
B550 AORUS PRO AX - F13l
B550 AORUS PRO V2 - F13j
B550I AORUS PRO AX - F13k
B550M AORUS PRO - F13j
B550M AORUS PRO-P - F13k
B550 GAMING X - F13j
B550 VISION D - F13k

- Agesa 1.2.0.3a
- Date 06/17/2021
(supose to address USB issue)
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#29
Cruise51
Heatpipes please!
Main reason I didn't buy x570 was the chipset fan. It's like all the motherboard manufacturers' forgot about their old designs in the core 2 duo era.
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#30
MxPhenom 216
ASIC Engineer
Cruise51Heatpipes please!
Main reason I didn't buy x570 was the chipset fan. It's like all the motherboard manufacturers' forgot about their old designs in the core 2 duo era.
With real heatsinks with real fins, unlike the hunks of metal now-a-days with weird carvings into them for aesthetics.
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#31
Tomorrow
Cruise51Heatpipes please!
Main reason I didn't buy x570 was the chipset fan. It's like all the motherboard manufacturers' forgot about their old designs in the core 2 duo era.
Ahem:


Proper finstack and heatpipe is present on most Gigabyte Aorus models. Old designs also needed those heatpipes because chipsets were more power hungry (mafufactured on bigger nodes) plus souhtbridge/nortbridge chips needed cooling too. Plus that image looks like a childs toy. I much prefrer the color neutral components these days.

As for X570 - i have been running my X570 Aorus Master passive for ~1,5 years. With aftermarket GPU cooling the chipset temp was ~40c max. Now with AIB cooling (different card, higher TDP) it's ~60c max. And that is with the chipset fan disconnected and all 3 M.2 slots populated with PCIe 4.0 drives (Samsung PM9A1).
The whole chipset fan thing was way overblown and not really needed.

Also WCCFTech has a better more detailed article detailing each board: wccftech.com/gigabyte-launches-amd-x570s-motherboard-lineup-featuring-aorus-master-aorus-pro-ax-gaming-x-aero-g-ud-series/

I really hate that they removed both Dual-BIOS and Dip switches from the X570S Master. No way im "upgrading" to that. I rather have a fan that i can disconnect rather than no fan but also no Dual-BIOS and no switches.
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#32
pcminirace
Chrispy_B550 pretty much killed off x570 mITX. There's not enough space on an mITX board to take advantage of the extra stuff an x570 has over a B550.
I guess you're right, the b550 itx is not bad at all.
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#33
Chrispy_
pcminiraceI guess you're right, the b550 itx is not bad at all.
Yeah, there's just not enough physical space for more than 1 M.2 drive and 1 PCIe x16 slot on mITX.
Even B550 is overkill, really since it has more PCIe 3.0 lanes than any of the other onboard parts could possibly make use of.

Potentially if you were hoping for 10x 10GB/s USB3.2 ports you'd be disappointed with B550 which tops out at 6x 10GB/s, 2x 5GB/s, and the rest at boring 3.1 speeds - but 8 fast USB ports is proably fine because that'll cover the rear IO shield nicely and if you get more than a single internal USB3.2 header on the board then something else important has been sacrificed to make room for it!

Even squeezing a single M.2 onto an mITX board is a challenge - the two options are a riser card above the B550 chipset itself, and usually the CMOS battery, audio capacitors, and audio/ethernet hardware, or secondly in that same location but on the reverse side of the board. I don't think you could have an M.2 in both locations as the traces for both are in the same space whether the M.2 slot is on the front or back of the board - you'd need a comically-expensive 16-layer PCB or something to make that work :D
TigerfoxWhich slot are you refering to? I can only see M.2 with x1 for Wifi, but that is like it is supposed to.
@TheLostSwede has confirmed it's a typo in the manual so, nothing to worry about, but I was referring to this typo (cropped to slots 2, 3, and 4, since slot 1 is obviously hanging off the CPU):

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#34
MxPhenom 216
ASIC Engineer
Chrispy_Yeah, there's just not enough physical space for more than 1 M.2 drive and 1 PCIe x16 slot on mITX.
Even B550 is overkill, really since it has more PCIe 3.0 lanes than any of the other onboard parts could possibly make use of.

Potentially if you were hoping for 10x 10GB/s USB3.2 ports you'd be disappointed with B550 which tops out at 6x 10GB/s, 2x 5GB/s, and the rest at boring 3.1 speeds - but 8 fast USB ports is proably fine because that'll cover the rear IO shield nicely and if you get more than a single internal USB3.2 header on the board then something else important has been sacrificed to make room for it!

Even squeezing a single M.2 onto an mITX board is a challenge - the two options are a riser card above the B550 chipset itself, and usually the CMOS battery, audio capacitors, and audio/ethernet hardware, or secondly in that same location but on the reverse side of the board. I don't think you could have an M.2 in both locations as the traces for both are in the same space whether the M.2 slot is on the front or back of the board - you'd need a comically-expensive 16-layer PCB or something to make that work :D


@TheLostSwede has confirmed it's a typo in the manual so, nothing to worry about, but I was referring to this typo (cropped to slots 2, 3, and 4, since slot 1 is obviously hanging off the CPU):

Essentially that 4th one is useless.
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#35
Chrispy_
MxPhenom 216Essentially that 4th one is useless.
Not if it's a typo and the slot is really an x4 ;)
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#36
MxPhenom 216
ASIC Engineer
Chrispy_Not if it's a typo and the slot is really an x4 ;)
Well yeah, I guess we will see about that. No word about it from Gigabyte right?

Manual doesnt appear to be available to download anymore.
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#37
Chrispy_
MxPhenom 216Well yeah, I guess we will see about that. No word about it from Gigabyte right?

Manual doesnt appear to be available to download anymore.
Would need @TheLostSwede to cite his sources. He confirmed it was a typo but I didn't care enough to double check or ask where he got that info. IME he's generally pretty good at finding credible info.
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#38
TheLostSwede
News Editor
MxPhenom 216Well yeah, I guess we will see about that. No word about it from Gigabyte right?

Manual doesnt appear to be available to download anymore.
I checked with someone I know that works there and he said it was a typo and it'll get addressed at some point.
I guess that could by why they pulled the manual.
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#39
cyberloner
Cruise51Heatpipes please!
Main reason I didn't buy x570 was the chipset fan. It's like all the motherboard manufacturers' forgot about their old designs in the core 2 duo era.
this is ABIT design :P
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#40
MxPhenom 216
ASIC Engineer
TheLostSwedeI checked with someone I know that works there and he said it was a typo and it'll get addressed at some point.
I guess that could by why they pulled the manual.
Its fixed now. You can download the manual again. But man that Aorus lettering on the VRM cooling is really freaking ugly. Why Gigabyte!?

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