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Review on πŸ”₯ ASRock X570 Steel Legend WiFi AX: Advanced AMD X570 Motherboard with Optimal SATA 6GB/S Connectivity by Polo Bradley

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Great motherboard with a possible design flaw

The gaming system built on this board shows amazing performance in combination with the Ryzen 3800X and 5700XT. But this board seems to have a very significant design flaw as the GPU almost completely covers the southbridge fan where I suspect there will be no airflow. You can also see that the SB heats up a lot, around 70 degrees under light load and around 66 degrees when idling. Since the 5700XT is a PCIe 4 card, it cannot be moved to another slot as it is not Gen4. This seems to be a possible design flaw. ASRock should redesign this board by removing the fan as there are other places to place the fan. But for me, due to Amazon's computer return policy, I'll probably stick with it until it dies on me and I can send it back

Pros
  • There's something to it
Cons
  • A bit crumpled