[GBT-MatthewH]

Who is ready for fan stop?

In this BIOS you will find 3 profiles - Silent, Balance (default) and Performance. Balance and Performance will almost always have the fan spin, even at idle, without additional cooling directed at the PCH. If you have good airflow, or even a fan aimed at the PCH it's possible to cool the PCH to a level where the fan will stop. If you want the fan to be off during idle use the silent profile. Of course this is all dependent on airflow and ambient temperature.

• If no issues are found in this test BIOS we will convert it to a BETA BIOS and release it for all the SKU's.

• I know this is the internet, but I would prefer not to spread this wild in places like reddit. If you want to link to this post, so be it, but don't start a new thread about it until its atleast a BETA is available. I assume people here are a little more tech savy and willing to flash a BIOS just to test - its OCN right? Just know that chances are you will be flashing an even newer BIOS as early as tomorrow.

Note, this is a "T" BIOS. T = Test. This is intended for internal testing. Today I am releasing it for you guys to help test as well.
This should be considered an "alpha" release. *Use at your own risk* ​

P.S. The reason we call it a test BIOS is because we have not validated all the normal stuff, although one would assume if nothing changed nothing changed - This assumption is not always true as any programmer here can attest! This means we have not yet tried a bunch of memory to make sure XMP was still solid. We didn't try overclocking, or voltages, or really anything past adding a fan profile. Test means we assume that this one change will not affect other non-related issues, but we need to test before releasing. So if you wanna be a tester and see what happens here's your chance!

• Test BIOS T5H - X570 Master only

 

[GBT-MatthewH]

Manually forcing older PCIe Generations is helpful when your priority is booting/using a maximum number of pcie devices where the amount of bandwidth to the device is less important than the ability to have them all controlled and recognized by the same host. I'm coming over from intel land for the first time, well ever actually, and this option was standard even on B250 low-end years old mobos as well as up to current z390.

Hi there.

Does the Extreme have the ability in bios to change from PCIe 4.0 to 3.0?

Will Ryzen 3000 series be the last to use AM4?

Its under settings -> miscellaneous -> PCIe Slot configuration (Gen 4/3/2/1)

 

[OCmember]

Just bought the Gigabyte X570 AORUS EXTREME. Time to upgrade from X58 even though it's still a ripper!

 

[BeeDeeEff]

Its under settings -> miscellaneous -> PCIe Slot configuration (Gen 4/3/2/1)

Very cool, still have the Aorus Master as my leading choice. Time to just wait for more reviews and for the 3950x to come out.

 

[jsgiv]

Who is ready for fan stop?

In this BIOS you will find 3 profiles - Silent, Balance (default) and Performance. Balance and Performance will almost always have the fan spin, even at idle, without additional cooling directed at the PCH. If you have good airflow, or even a fan aimed at the PCH it's possible to cool the PCH to a level where the fan will stop. If you want the fan to be off during idle use the silent profile. Of course this is all dependent on airflow and ambient temperature.

Installed from F5e - tested - and my ears (and sanity) thank you.. I'll continue to monitor the temps on the PCH to see if they remain stabilized and report back.

Only complaint is the jet engine roar of the fans (checking full RPMs on each channel perhaps) on startup - not sure if that will be addressed in the beta/final - but it's something I can live with..

BTW - I was potentially close to returning this board and replacing with something else (first time Gigabyte purchase) because of this one issue (I'm very sensitive to high pitches and this fan was hitting all the right notes at the old configuration).

Nice to see such a quick turn around...

Overall - I really am pleased with the board (came from an Asus IX Code) - it'll be great to see how this thing OC's over time (I'm waiting for a bit to let things stabilize for the time being..)..

Keep up the good work!

 

[Admixues]

can anyone get a picture of the PCH heatsink of the X570 master?, i want to see how much surface area is underneath that cover, thank you.

 

[Nopileus]

If it's anything like the Elite... not much, the entire top half is just a slab of metal.
https://imgur.com/a/keft9Gs

I just got done setting up, the chipset fan is blaring at 3800rpm while at 45°C, not good at all.

 

[Jeff Drumheller]

Only complaint is the jet engine roar of the fans (checking full RPMs on each channel perhaps) on startup - not sure if that will be addressed in the beta/final - but it's something I can live with..

I just got done setting up, the chipset fan is blaring at 3800rpm while at 45°C, not good at all.

Didn't ya'll see Matt's post at the top of the page? New "TEST" Bios with improved fan stepping, profiles and fan stop. I plan to test later tonight

 

[GBT-MatthewH]

I just got done setting up, the chipset fan is blaring at 3800rpm while at 45°C, not good at all.

If everything looks good on the test BIOS above I will have the same thing for all boards (Ultra, Pro wifi, elite) by end of week.

 

[intender]

Just flashed the test bios, in performance mode the pch fan is running at 2600rpm and from about 3 ft away I can't hear it over the sound of my other fans.

 

[Nopileus]

Didn't ya'll see Matt's post at the top of the page? New "TEST" Bios with improved fan stepping, profiles and fan stop. I plan to test later tonight

I did see that of course, i'd have jumped on it if i had the Master.

If everything looks good on the test BIOS above I will have the same thing for all boards (Ultra, Pro wifi, elite) by end of week.

Splendid, thanks for the direct support on here.

 

[GBT-MatthewH]

Just flashed the test bios, in performance mode the pch fan is running at 2600rpm and from about 3 ft away I can't hear it over the sound of my other fans.

Actually hit the nail on the head. The testing we have done this week was to measure case fan vs pch fan. Our goal was to keep pch fan right below case fan, thus making the pch fan inaudible (or at least washed out by case fan noise). That way we max "performance" (ie keep it cool) without being able to tell if the fan was off or on. Obviously there are so many fans on the market, custom fan curves, etc... it's impossible to do this. But that was kind of our test parameters when trying different curves.

 

[jsgiv]

If it's anything like the Elite... not much, the entire top half is just a slab of metal.
https://imgur.com/a/keft9Gs

I just got done setting up, the chipset fan is blaring at 3800rpm while at 45°C, not good at all.

You may can try the profile trick to get it to come down...

install/load the AppCenter/SIV program(s) - go to Smart Fan Advanced - set your fan curve (if you want to address the spin up/down, etc.) for your CPU and others - save the profile and re-load the profile. The PCH fan should come down quite a bit (mine was averaging around 2200 rpm).

Until the bios update comes out for all the boards - you'll have to reload the profile each time you boot.

 

[Nopileus]

That trick actually works, neat.
Brought it down to 2450rpm

 

[pschorr1123]

Much, much, much better!

Thank you Matthew!

 

[Admixues]

If it's anything like the Elite... not much, the entire top half is just a slab of metal.
https://imgur.com/a/keft9Gs

I just got done setting up, the chipset fan is blaring at 3800rpm while at 45°C, not good at all.

That's kinda disappointing, hopefully the master is different otherwise I'll have to look into something else, I want a board that I can turn the fan off on and still run under 75C, the ACE can do that, don't know about the VIII hero or the master thought.

 

[timmyjoe]

Hey there, long time listener, first time caller. I've got some things to say. I got the Aorus Pro Wifi today and damn it's impressive. Similar board and Moparman is me friend so I'll post this here:

Able to boot a Geil kit of B-Die 4133 CL19 to boot with the XMP profile and just work: https://www.newegg.ca/geil-16gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820158762

First time I've been able to do that on any platform with out lowering the frequency. I will be messing with the timings but for my first post I figured I'd show how well the 3700x and these Aorus boards are working together! The screenshot is the memory bandwidth at the xmp profile along with the frequencies and scores I'm getting on a Deepcool Captain 240mm CLC and just PBO set in the bios to auto. I loved the x470 version of this board, I can tell I'm going to love the x570. I've got some issues booting my Radeon RX 5700 on it though. I've got an email to Gigabyte in about that.

 

[LiquidHaus]

Because of the huge price difference, I feel bad saying this but...

I'm really glad I went with the Xtreme over the others.

I've had so many bad memories with motherboard fans that I had told myself never again.

Sorry you guys are having all these issues even after all these years I thought the fan dilemma would improve, BUT I'm glad to see Gigabyte actually caring to help people out. Makes me feel good on going with Gigabyte this time around rather than Asus.

 

[whicker]

I should get my 3900x and x570 master delivered on friday! Thank you @GBT-MatthewH for reassuring me about my purchase. Your support here goes a long way! I probably wont mess around with OC too much till Bios and AGESA settle down a bit but may try to OC my b-die ram and see how much IF clocks affect performance.

 

[BLKKROW]

Anyone having issues with the 3900x and the Aorus Pro Wifi board?