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yesterday I finished up with the x5 70 Tai Chi review and in the comments section some people were raising concerns over the x5 70 chipset hub and apparently there's been reports of people going out and buying these motherboards putting them in a case and then the whole system is shutting off and then they think it's due to the fact that the x5 70 chipset hub is simply overheating and that will cause the whole system indeed to shut off but in my review I didn't really talk about the platform chipset hub because the noise was so inaudible compared to the CPU cooler and also the grabs code cooler that I couldn't get a proper reading on the noises and also on that note I thought the temperatures were fine but here today we're gonna test out two different boards the x5 70 Taichi and also the Auris Pro and then put a 20 80 TI on that test it on the open air test bed and then after that put it inside a case and see if we can mimic some of this behavior that's being reported in the comment section so the results now for the open air testbed on both boards we saw a surface temperature on the heatsink coming in with the Auris / y 552 degrees C and then on the software readout we got 57 degrees there moving over to the Tai Chi we got 50 degrees C on the surface and then 57 degrees on the highway monitor temperature readout both times the chipset hub was warm to touch I could easily leave my hand on there for a few hours and not have it burnt whatsoever and this is in a 24 degrees C environment now first off reasons that we use open air test beds especially for me as a tech reviewer it's because we've got ease of access and we can quickly have access to diagnosing problems and also visibly see all the hardware and make sure that's running properly while we're doing our tests now the main thing with the open air test bed versus a case I've done these tests in the past and basically if you've got a good case or even a decent case with proper air flow it will perform better for temperatures then an open air test bed scenario take for instance the Corsair 540 that's been one of my staple go-to cases and it's been out in the wild for a five or six years and all you have to do is go out and buy that case and it comes pre-installed with all the fans that will give out better temperatures than having a test bed set up but from here in let's put the X 570 Tai Chi inside the H 500 P which I've got ready for a transplant and then we'll also load up an nvme PC a Gen 4 SSD on this motherboard as well as in conjunction with the 2080 Ti and load them both out to see what kind of temperatures we can get and see if we can indeed get this board to switch off and we just finished running tests here inside the cooler master age 500 p we had the 2080 TI and also a horas PCIe Gen 4 nvme drive loaded up on a stress test so this is pretty much stressing out the GPU the nvme drive and the cpu 2 all-in-one and what we found here with the temperatures well actually before we get into the temperatures I'm gonna state one thing and that's a really important thing if you're going out and spending 300 USD or even 250 USD on an x5 70 motherboard please do yourself a favor and do not cheap out on a case you want to get a decent case with high airflow or at least it's got the potential to have high airflow and you want to add in your own fans because in this case if you've got a 20 80 TI and a high-powered CPU and you're overclocking both of those and of course you've got an nvme drive then you will want air flow going through that case otherwise things will overheat in this case in particular we're dumping over 300 watts into the case so if we don't have good air flow then things of course will overheat and they could potentially shut off and in that case it could be the platform chipset hub which does that first now in this case AMD have designed the platform chipset hub compared to previous two generations of x4 70 + x3 70 motherboards where I believe they had the help of as media in designing those chipsets so it is a little bit different of course the biggest difference being PCIe ghent 4 but with that aside let's get into the results here so the nvme drive that got on that spot of the heatsink 54 degrees in both the software and on the IR temp sense now outside that area during the stress test we have 50 degrees and then in the software 55 degrees so it was running 2 degrees cooler then when it was on the open air test bed and that's still coupled with an nvme this time around which we didn't run on the open air test bed so basically if you've got a good case with good airflow you won't have to worry about things overheating so that noise what you're hearing there it's very quiet it's very inaudible but even then the platform chipset hub as I said earlier we couldn't get out an accurate reading because and this especially now we've got extra fans and the GPU was getting much louder than that platform chipset hub when we're trying to do the tests so as it stands with this video I simply cannot replicate the conditions to try and get this thing to switch off and again this is with the 2080 ti one of the most power consuming cards out there at the moment and even then we still loaded up a Gen 4 nvme SSD and the fans were still very quiet and the temperatures were very well controlled and this believes me to believe that maybe there is a motherboard out there that could have issues I'm just not sure but it's definitely not the x5 70 Taichi nor would it be the x5 70 or s pro Wi-Fi and on that note pretty much every x5 70 motherboard except the real high-end expensive flagship models will have the active cooling onboard though if there were issues out there in the wild I do believe they could be possible but if so I would recommend updating your BIOS straight away perhaps the fan might not even be turning on there could be a bug where the software is not polling to the temperatures and so the fan may not even be spinning up altogether and in that case that could cause overheating but on that note of x5 70 motherboards and the platform chipset hubs thermal trip points AMD themselves have actually left it to the motherboard manufacturers to implement their own safety thermal trip points and from what I gather from a Zeus it's 95 degrees Celsius and asrock is 105 degrees Celsius I'm not sure on orous and also MSI's values yet but when I find them out I will update the description for you guys though when it stands - a motherboard switching off it is of course possible to happen especially if that fan is faulty and it's not spinning up at all or in other cases where the motherboard manufacturer has made a mistake and the fan profiles are just simply not aggressive at all and though in other words they don't spin up until a certain temperature and even when they do spin up they're just too quiet and the platform chipset hub the heat being dumped from massive grab guard nvme drives is simply overwhelming that over time and that could see the whole system switch off especially if you couple that with a cheap case but from here on in with my x5 70 motherboard reviews I will be reporting on the x5 70 chipset hub especially the fair noises and if it presents a problem basically if you can touch that heatsink our general rule of thumb with computers if it's lukewarm to touch and it's not really sizzling your fingers at all then there's nothing to worry about but if it is getting extremely hot to the point where you touch that heatsink on any part in a computer and it's just really sizzling hot then that's when you can start to look into it and it may present an issue or a problem but in this situation on the Auris Pro and also the x5 70 there was absolutely nothing to worry about I could leave my hands on that thing for days and it would be getting lukewarm which is a good thing in winter if my hands are pretty cold or if I'm playing games you know when you're playing video games and your hands get pretty cold and you can't move them that quick then maybe you could use your x5 70 chipset hub just as a little hand warmer and then get back to gaming but the last thing to touch on before I get on out of here is the clearance between that fan and also the GPU there may be a GPU out there that has a very low clearance and that's actually blocking off that fan completely on the chipset hub that could be another problem I haven't run into any of those issues even though this Ora's 28 ETA is a massive card there's still a few mil clearance so the air for the fan can still reach that platform chipset hub and not cause any problems and if it does worry you enough at least on the x5 70 boards here there's three PCI gen 4 16x slots so you can just move it down to a slot down the bottom and then the chipset fan will have plenty of room to breathe and without a side I hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button for us also let us know in the comments 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