Now the bad: This motherboard, as many x570 boards, contains active cooling for the VRM and the chipset. Im currently using this board with a 3900x in an Ncase M1 and im generally very content with this board: good build quality, excellent IO (7 Type A Usb ports, 2 m.2 slots) and good connectivity.
I think if Intel or AMD suddenly got silicon that was constantly able to go up another 200MHz+, they'd create a new model and sell those as is just to beat their competitor in some benchmarks.Loud and annoying chipset fan. AMD and Intel are running these CPU's so close to the edge of what they can do, there is virtually zero headroom on them anymore. Beyond that, I don't think that type of shopping behavior or places like Silicon Lottery will help anymore. You can try and find out which batches, plants, or whatever yield the best possible results but it's still a crap shoot. I've had bad processors out of the most desirable batches that weren't worth a damn. I've had good ones from known bad batches that can do everything the good ones can do. The information to help people get the most out of a CPU becomes more accessible over time as well, but I've seen no real evidence that the silicon is going to get that much better down the line without a stepping change. I certainly can do more with a processor after I've tried it on half a dozen boards than I can on that first one. Now, people will get better at overclocking them. People said similar things about earlier Ryzen CPU's and hoping they would clock better down the line. Generally, unless a new stepping is created all the processors down the road will probably be exactly like the ones we have now. The heatshield is too hot to touch and instead of cooling the drives it does the opposite: It transfers the heat right to them, causing their temperatures to rise. Yet what really bothers me is the cooling solution which causes the drives to reach such high temperatures. Using the headphones it's not an issue, playing without however I find it distracting enough. It is hard to describe, like some high-pitching sound which is always there.
Now the Radeon VII is a loud card and it surely dominates the noise levels of my systems, however that little fan can be heard as an annoying background noise through all those other fans. One of my NVMe drives, Samsung 960 Evo, reports over 90☌ during gaming as "Drive Temperature 2" while gaming, the X570 itself settles somewherr between 72☌ and 76☌ with the fan spinning in the mid 4000s.
This heatshield actually gets heat up a lot due to the videocard and the X570 itself. Not only that, but the hot exhaust also hits Asrocks promoted "Heatshield" cooling solution, a metal plate which not only should cool the thre M.2 drives via thermalpads, but is also connected to via thermalpad to the chipset cooler itself. The Radeon VII is a pretty hot card, exhausting the hot air onto the chipset and more so into it's fan.
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