1-2 degrees cooler than the Gaming Edge WiFi under identical load. In the Aorus Elite, the M.2 cooler is designed separately, but has no cooling fins.

All three boards cool the chipset sufficiently below 80 degrees even at 130 watt setting and maximum (thermal) load by CPU, graphics card and peripherals, whereby the MSI board performs best. The differences between the boards are quite visible, although not really extreme. The speeds are acceptable, but you can still hear that, unfortunately.īut what does the respective cooler or what does it not do? This question can be answered quite simply by the chipset temperatures and the revolutions per minute. In reality, that’s quickly a thing of the past, because whether it’s the SSD or the chipset – after about 15 to 20 minutes in idle mode, the fan won’t run out. While the voltage regulators were still the bookkeeper’s favourite toy, the fan has the largest diameter and a semi-passive mode. However, the switch-off mode for load-free operation is also missing here, which unfortunately becomes audible in idle. The fan has a diameter hardly larger than that of the Asus board, but it is at least free and can therefore breathe. This in turn is annoying and at some point one wishes for a semi-passive mode or a passive cooler. But it’s also a fact that you can hear this little airtikus in idle and without a real load. But let us be surprised by the overview of the temperatures. The argument that the card would also cool the chipset in this way is rather a sham argument with such GPU power losses. Asus hides the rather small fan directly under the graphics card. Of course, I couldn't completely escape my curiosity about the possible limits, but in the end one should also be aware of his responsibility as a medium and not panic the readers (and thus also buyers) unjustifiably or let them doubt your own decisions.Īll three manufacturers go quite different ways with chipset fans. The largest possible CPU on the smallest possible motherboard, best still remove all the heat sinks of the voltage regulators and that's the basis for the next YouTube orgy.

Asus chipset fan control