Correct. That means 100% of my boards with chipset fans died. All of … it.
And because I’m not an idiot, I won’t buy one of those again.
That is my point.
Show me one X570 board with a user replaceable chipset fan.
Biostar’s X570GT8 looks like a good contender. Evercool and Power Logic make an assortment of fans that would drop into that. The original press images even look like they intended to use the Power Logic straight blade fans and switched it up for shipping. Clearly there are options there.
Don’t know why it would be a foregone conclusion that other vendors wouldn’t be using off-the-shelf fans that are available in quantity at reasonable prices.
This is partially why I opted for an x470 series motherboard. I like Gigabyte’s approach to the situation, but I didn’t want to spend that kind of money for a board just for a fanless chipset design.
Personally I wouldn’t see the fans being that bad of a deal as long as they aren’t proprietary and are easy for users to replace. Unfortunately I don’t see that being a clear option either. I hope later boards will go with the heatpipe design like Gigabyte did. I’ve had plenty of motherboards from Asus in the past that had heatpipes for all the chipsets.
My nforce board fan died and I just kept using it like that for many years. It did eventually bite the dust but I can’t difinitevely say it was because of no fan.
would it be the same situation being that x570 is using 10 - 14w ? i.e was your nforce board running the same temps and power load consistently (i don’t expect you to know this answer). AFAIK the current pcie.4 chipset used in x570 is in a constant state of ‘ON’ so it’s using the 10 -14w permanently even if your not using the actual lanes (could be wrong though)
Actually that doesnt seem to be the case
The fan seems to me like a CYA measure for low airflow applications
I know gigabyte has already said they are going to update the bios for fan curves down the road and we might see that most people dont need the fan to run at all depending on what pcie loads you actually have.
Theres still a lot of confusion going on and there doesnt seem to be any straight answers but my gut tells me the fan is there for worst case scenarios.
its impossible for me to answer your nforce question because I have no idea what that chipset consumed and the cooling solution was different. there was a heatpipe sharing the heatsink between the northbridge and southbridge, so it was cooling 2 areas.
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Glad it doesn’t consume as much as people say. Where people getting the 8 - 14w information from ?
maybe that was the spec manufacturers were given for TDP. I dont know. I’ll let you guys know how great my chipset fan is after I finish my build though 
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Well, looking at der8auer’s chart, the lower end number seems to be correct at least and it might ramp up on load with a PCIe4 GPU.
Having watched enough video’s on it, there are a lot of people/videos where they fully populate the motherboard with SSDs and then transfer a lot of data around trying to max it out. Best guess is they are mistaking under load with idle power draw.