We will be examining a couple of passive X570 motherboard from ASUS and Gigabyte. But now, better cooling implementations from the motherboard vendors have that annoyance fixed.Īnyway, that’s enough for the introduction. Realistically, the only downside to X570 motherboards as they have currently existed on the market has been the chipset fan. X570 is still a superb platform, with PCIe Gen 4 connectivity throughout and a high-bandwidth four-lane highway between the CPU and chipset. To be perfectly frank though, that is not such a bad thing. Instead, the motherboard vendors have more or less taken it upon themselves to use X570S as a marketing term for the chipset… but it’s still X570!

There is no new process node or adjusted feature set. And these boards are passively cooled without a chipset fan, thus eliminating one of the most annoying features for the X570 offerings in general.īefore you get too excited about the ‘new X570S' chipset, we spoke to AMD and they confirmed that there is no real difference with the chipset silicon itself.

Not happy with the highest-end AM4 options just sailing into the sunset until AM5 arrives, the motherboard vendors have brought out some new X570 motherboards often designated ‘X570S’. With X570, only a couple of the ultra-high-end boards were passive – most had an annoying chipset fan. Especially because B550 was fully passive and had some updated features given its 1-year newer status.

AMD’s X570 platform has been superb since its launch in July 2019, but B550 stole some of its thunder in summer 2020.

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