My X570 chip was sitting at 90° C with normal use, I have disassembled my whole build and realized that there was neither a thermal pad nor thermal grease applied on it. So I put a 1.5mm thermal pad in place, the result is -40ish degrees. This is insane. Board: Asus Crosshair VIII Impact.

I had never heard or thought of this one before, its funny :+)

grumble grumble, dont wanna open mine, gumble grumble... I just increased fan speed from off to idle and no trouble after, gonna check it out since while not as hot as yours, it was pretty hot...

It's ASUS. They do shit like this on purpose.

Hey, just curious, why you decided to go that route instead of doing a RMA?

Because the motherboard itself is a beast. And building SFF I had not many options in the first place. So I knew RMAing it, they would just send me a new one but it would potentially be the same issue. Seems to be a common issue with the x570 boards (for some reason). Anyway, I reached out to Asus and their response was I have to go the support of my distributor. Again, the would have asked me to send it in to then maybe replace it....this would have just consumed a lot of time without actually providing any improvements and it was pretty obvious where the issue lies and what can be done to fix it .

Maybe this is a sneaky way of Asus voiding their customers warranty. By skipping the thermal pad and having people troubleshoot, open and fix their boards themselves lol.

They didn't learn their lesson:

Oh. Fucking nice.

I had a Sapphire 280x with no heatsinks on the VRAM, the card was great and ran phenomenally well. It only took it a few months to start acting up. I had bought it just as the 2014 crypto boom was starting to fade so I paid way over the MSRP for it. I was able to buy an XFX 280x DD, which has a heat spreader on the VRAM, and an SSD because the prices had returned to MSRP.

The last board I purchased was a gigabyte and frankly I crossed my fingers hoping it would bee trouble free. The reality is it is hard to determine who is the quality board maker these days and more so who stands behind their product the best. There are certainly a ton of horror stories from the owners of various boards trying to return product for repair.

Frankly I do understand the grief that the board makers suffer as i see a lot of idiocy in the various forums from users screwing up. I don't see it as legitimate for somebody to return a board they screwed up knowing that they screwed it up. Then you have the people trying to run a high performance system on a 300 watt power supply and blaming the motherboard, GPU card or whatever for their problems. So it is very much a two way street. The problem is when you get many boards out in public with out proper heat sink installation it is obviously a problem with the manufacture and can rightly be called a defective product. Frankly it would be better if all of these boards got returned and maybe wake somebody up in the QC departments.

Definitely worth looking into, personally I am not comfortable to have my components sit at 90dgs, so I knew I had to go through the extra work and disassembling and assembling it again.

Probably a human error during manufacturing, when the person responsible for placing the thermal pads didn´t pay attention to what he´s doing.

Or they went out of thermal pads supply and their management ordered the workers to finish it anyway.

Or they went out of thermal pads supply and their management ordered the workers to finish it anyway.

If there is more than one in circulation this is the likely answer. Screw ups on production lines happen but it generally doesn't result in a lot of product leaving the factory.

Definitely not normal, mine always stays around 60.

My master wand that bad but it did run warm. The thermal pads was more akin to melted plastic.har to use a razorblade to scrape it off. Applied thermal paste and the temp sits between 45 and 50 c and fan never turns on.

Yeah, I was honestly expecting a cheap thermal pad, that is too slim to make contact with the heatsink... but to my surprise, there was nothing whatsoever.

scary if you think about it.. how many people are not going to notice? with a big GPU (think 3080+ or 6800 XT+) the amount of heat being dumped right next to the chipset is pretty scary, and without proper contact this can kill a board I'd imagine

Wow, that's a crazy oversight. I just got my ROG X570-I the other day, and won't be able to build until everything comes next weekend, but I did search around and find this thread which will be super helpful for me taking preventative measures by replacing (or adding) a thermal pad. Thanks for making me aware of this issue!!