The PCH is quite bulky and acts as a heat trap inside the enclosure the PCH will quickly heat to 57c when the fan engages (at 1000rpm ), and goes up/ down 500rpm for every 1c change, so the pitch (fairly similar to a dial tone is constantly changing, I have to use headphones to block the sound). Worse still is that there is no provision of an air gap for the fan. It boils down to the PCH fan being slightly higher than the maximum permitted in the “Card Slot Area” of 0.6" (15.24mm) as stated the ATX specification. Subsequently, that tab broke off when I tried to remove the GPU (it was quite flimsy). When assembling the PC I noticed that there was a clearance issue with the chipset fan that preventing the GPU from being fully inserted so the locking tab would close, I had to press down on the GPU way harder than I am normally comfortable with. They are simply too high and easily blocked by GPUs, making them run extraordinary hot and loud. The small 40mm fan stayed below 3000 RPM for the vast majority of our testing.There is a height issue with your x570 chipset/ PCH fans. ASUS’ chipset cooling solution seemed perfectly adequate at managing the heat output without requiring excessive fan speeds. See the below review, also similar results.Ĭhipset temperatures were fine, showing the typical mid-60s reading for X570 motherboards. I haven't seen the behavior you are seeing on the 570-E and I have two to hand. I am shocked at how bad the engineering team at Asus is. Now chipset temps never go above 58c even while gaming and the chipset fan only ever spins at 1300rpm max. So I removed the garbage thermal pad and used an aluminum shim with real thermal paste, then mounted the heatsink back on and used half threaded screws with spring mounts to keep the heatsink and shim flat on the chipset dye. This was due to the crappy thick thermal pad they used and the tiny heatsink. My chipset temps were reaching 80c with the fan running at full speed. What they did was use a very thick thermal pad and a mount a simple plate with a few fins as the heatsink. It is easily the worst chipset cooler design. I was shocked at how BAD the chipset cooler design is. Just a warning about the Asus Strix x570 boards as they have defective chipset cooler design.