Confused on which motherboard to buy. B550 AORUS PRO or X570 AORUS ELITE?

[Sagath]

Same on a MSI x570 Gaming Edge wifi, it isnt like they are spinning up constant like NF4's were back in the day.

ohgod. I just got 'nam PTSD flashbacks.

 

[Izerous]

The one thing I still miss about the crosshair 4 extreme was having the full coverage waterblock for the motherboard. No fan at all to worry about.

moving from pci-express 3 -> 4 brought the fans back but it seems most of them are fairly quiet. But what is going to happen when the mainstream jumps up to 5.

 

[Chubsdiamond]

Getting the ASRock Rack B550 when they become available.
Fans no problem for me, I’ve got 3 x 12k rpm front to back in a 1U loud as a vacuum.

I just need the AMD Zen 3 w/ the new cache design.

Having PCI 3.0 x 4 on the NVMe M.2 is faster than my apps will use too.

To me Less Is More.

 

[On2wheels]

I can honestly say I've never heard the chipset fan on my Asus Prime X570 Pro.

I never heard the fan on my Asrock either but funny enough the latest bios has given passive fan mode, so I checked and my chipset fan was stopped. Then again my house was 17 degrees inside...

If i had to do it over again I'd have gotten B550 or something fanless. Granted they're nothing like the bygone days of the 90s where you could hear a PC startup across the room, I still don't like extra moving parts if I can help it.