X570 Chipset Fan noise

[Nezbitten]

Hi All, I wondered what everyone's thoughts are. I've yet to buy a new PC from my old i5 that is 8 years old.

I create videos and record sound in my tiny office. I understand that most of these chipset fans are audible. I've read on Reddit that the stock coolers drown out the chipset fans. That's great if you want a "stock" cooler and don't care about sound, I've invested heavily in Noctua and I don't have any sound. So how do we get around the sound issue? Sensitive mics pick up the sound so no sound is good for all us content creators.

Do we have to buy an Aorus extreme board with no fan to keep things quiet, it seems almost implausible to think that anyone who is a content creator would buy a board with a noisy chipset fan? What to do. I already have a Fractal R5 Sound deadening case, all Noctua fans, now it's going to sound like a bee is flying around in my case. Or is it?

Was thinking of buying the 3900x. All sorts of horror stories over on Reddit at the moment about noisy fans....

 

[Dawelio]

Have you considered an X470 board instead? Basically all of them are fanless. Do you really need PCI Express 4? If not, then get a X470 motherboard and enjoy

 

[Bartacus]

If you already have a sound deadened case, I really doubt you'll notice that fan. From what I read, it never really spins up to full power until you pound the PCIE bandwidth anyway, via NVME RAID or something like that. For most people, it will be running at lower speeds. In your case (literally), you'd be fine.


I'm waiting for a water block to replace it, preferably something the lines of that crazy Gigabyte Waterforce 9900k combo. That might be the sexiest thing I've ever seen!

 

[Wraith]

From what I've been reading today the X570 chipset runs so efficiently and cool that it technically doesn't require it's own cooler, even Der Bauer says this in his latest video.



But in all honesty chipset fan noise is so minimal over a pump or case fan noise it's almost impossible to pick up, I'd have to run my rig on a test bench to hear anything from the motherboard. Your Mic would have to be in the case I think to even pick it up, my Samson Mic sits 3 inches from the side of my rig and it doesn't even pick it up.

 

[AlienALX]

I think the fan will be for the worst case scenario tbh. Like loads of nvme in raid etc.

 

[Bartacus]

Yeah I watched that video, and DerBauer made a lot of conclusions from only using only one PCIE M.2 drive. Sure wish he added in a second for testing. I am VERY tempted to get a pair of 2TB Intel M.2s on the cheap (~$260CDN). 4TB of RAID0 storage, no cables. My dream of ditching magnetic storage has arrived, hallelujah!

 

[Wraith]

Still damn impressive considering it peaked at 9.76w on natural air flow with 1x NVMe, 2x SATA loads, drives running CrystalDisk and 1x GPU being tortured with Furmark.

 

[Nezbitten]

Thank all for your input, ive noticed new fan profiles being brought into the BIOS for "Fan Stop" as the lowest option. https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/cby8og/aorus_x570_fan_stop_profiles/ TBH i work in Photoshop all the time and I know 9900k wins out there but it also runs hotter and draws more power. So im thinking almost as good with lower power and better at other stuff if i decide to get creative. Still watching the bios updates to see who does what. IF anyone is interested now found here https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/X570-AORUS-MASTER-rev-10/support#support-dl-bios

 

[NeverBackDown]

Still damn impressive considering it peaked at 9.76w on natural air flow with 1x NVMe, 2x SATA loads, drives running CrystalDisk and 1x GPU being tortured with Furmark.

Really? Wow.. Then why all the fuss about the chipset before launch and stuff?

 

[Bartacus]

I just booted up the Gigabyte Master, chipset fan makes noise. Bad noise. Poop.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Can you turn it off on BIOS?

 

[Bartacus]

Can you turn it off on BIOS?

I just flashed the BIOS to the latest and greatest, and it seems to have quieted down some. I'm going to hammer it best I can and see what that fan does. Not sure if I can turn it off or not.

 

[NeverBackDown]

If you can't you could always unplug the cable if it has one? Other than that guess you gotta wait for a BIOS that lets you.

Or just break it I guess

 

[Bartacus]

Don't tempt me. I am NOT liking this Gigabyte board. But I'm trying to reserve judgement, since this is a new platform, learning curve for OCing, etc. It seems like that first BIOS update made the fan quieter, but I also heard it squeal like a pig when I tried some stupid OCing and rendered Windows unbootable, but that was my bad.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Don't tempt me. I am NOT liking this Gigabyte board. But I'm trying to reserve judgement, since this is a new platform, learning curve for OCing, etc. It seems like that first BIOS update made the fan quieter, but I also heard it squeal like a pig when I tried some stupid OCing and rendered Windows unbootable, but that was my bad.

Gamers Nexus posted a video very recently about which boards to get and why from buildzoid.

I would definitely check it out. It has timestamps in the video as well if you want something specific too.

That way you can return it or whatever and get one you want.

edit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuyuS04lD4o

 

[Warchild]

I just flashed the BIOS to the latest and greatest, and it seems to have quieted down some. I'm going to hammer it best I can and see what that fan does. Not sure if I can turn it off or not.

My old Z97 Sabertooth was noisy too. I turn off the chipset fan. I had good airflow in the case anyway. Just had to monitor the temps for a few days in sheer paranoia until I was confident I could do away with it.

Maybe try the same. Nothing more annoying that those tiny 25x25cm fans whining away.

 

[grec]

Think most companies use much quieter and lower RPM 40mm fans for the X570 boards.

 

[Warchild]

Think most companies use much quieter and lower RPM 40mm fans for the X570 boards.

it was the 40mm fans actually I took another look. There was also one in the IO which I shut off.

 

[Nezbitten]

Did you get on better with the Master after Bios updates? Ive read that the master fan stays off if you keep it cool enough? Let me know how you got on?

 

[Bartacus]

Gigabyte has impressed the HECK out of me with this board. They implemented a silent mode for the chipset fan, but I found out it was NOT the chipset fan that was bugging me. Apparently one of my 3-pin Gentle Typhoons might be on the way out. That's the problem when you have 17 fans in a case and something makes a small annoying noise. I narrowed it down to one bank of fans on one of my 360 rads, so the chipset fan is innocent of all charges!