X870E chipsets are overheating

[Marzipan]

on Gigabyte boards anyhow, hitting over 100C.

Enthusiasts report Gigabyte X870E Aorus Xtreme chipset temps exceeding 100°C

Poor heatsink contact suspected to be the culprit.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[CMetaphor]

Oy. Crosshair IV all over again? How hard can it be to design a flat heatsink that contacts the NB/SB properly then use proper bolts to hold it in place? Cmon.

I was already going to steer well clear of these daisy-chained chipsets to begin with. Love AMD and all, but when mobo makers said they wanted more lanes and PCIe bandwidth, you couldn't have made a single, bigger NB to accommodate? Two hugely hot tiny chips sharing heatsinks... receipe for disaster IMO. If/when I go AM5, I'll be getting the "lesser" X870 (non-E) boards that don't double the trouble.

 

[sswilson]

on Gigabyte boards anyhow, hitting over 100C.

Enthusiasts report Gigabyte X870E Aorus Xtreme chipset temps exceeding 100°C

Poor heatsink contact suspected to be the culprit.

www.tomshardware.com

Yeah, your title is misleading/clickbaity........

This is not a chipset issue (other than the fact that it requires a fairly beefy heatsink and/or active cooling), this is a manufacturer's defect.

 

[Izerous]

Do I get to have a liquid cooled motherboard again? (Should have kept that as a nerdy display piece)

 

[Bond007]

Yeah, your title is misleading/clickbaity........

This is not a chipset issue (other than the fact that it requires a fairly beefy heatsink and/or active cooling), this is a manufacturer's defect.

Agree. There is zero wrong with the chipset and they are the exact same chips that have been around for a while already in the 650/670. Gigabyte are well aware of the thermal requirements, and didn’t suitably cool them on some boards.

Gigabyte issue, not AMD.

 

[crazyea]

As a former White Knight for Intel, I couldn't be happier with this system. The temperatures are all good. But I did go with the x870e Crosshair Hero so....

 

[CMetaphor]

@Bond007 chipsetS. Plural.

 

[Marzipan]

yes, I agree, it was a bit clickbaity, but I did that on purpose cause it's fun.

my intent was to let those with mobo's running the X870E know so that they'd check the temps of theirs in case the issue is more widespread than a single mfr.

 

[Lysrin]

As a former White Knight for Intel, I couldn't be happier with this system. The temperatures are all good. But I did go with the x870e Crosshair Hero so....

I used to be there too, and for NVIDIA, but in the end once the performance was catching up from the AMD side and there weren't persistent driver issues I became a White Knight for the best bang for the buck for me. Without giving up significant performance of course