GIGABYTE Unleashes AMD X570S Motherboards with Fanless Chipset Cooling

[Nanochip]

Well B550 chipset is a totally new die, where as X570 is just a rehashed Matisse die.

Yeah. 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.

 

[Tigerfox]

Thunderbolt has nothing to do with the chipset, it always provided by a separate controller via PCIe x4.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

Yeah. 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.

 

[Tomorrow]

Wow, 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.

Good 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.

Oh, 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

yup 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: https://www.tweaktownforum.com/foru...dors/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)

 

[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.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

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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With real heatsinks with real fins, unlike the hunks of metal now-a-days with weird carvings into them for aesthetics.

 

[Tomorrow]

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.

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: https://wccftech.com/gigabyte-launc...aster-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.

 

[pcminirace]

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.

 

[Chrispy_]

I 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

Which 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):

 

[MxPhenom 216]

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


@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):

View attachment 204469

Essentially that 4th one is useless.

 

[Chrispy_]

Essentially that 4th one is useless.

Not if it's a typo and the slot is really an x4

 

[MxPhenom 216]

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.

 

[Chrispy_]

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.

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.

 

[TheLostSwede]

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.

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.

 

[cyberloner]

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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this is ABIT design

 

[MxPhenom 216]

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.

Its fixed now. You can download the manual again. But man that Aorus lettering on the VRM cooling is really freaking ugly. Why Gigabyte!?