amrnuke
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I'm not super enthused about the chipset fan thing. I've had pretty much every one of those I've ever had die on me even with the most careful dust maintenance lol.
~11W, seems like you would be able to have Cooler Master or somebody make a little vertical heatpipe/fin design (almost like a baby 212), and cool it passively if you have good case airflow. It will be interesting to see what kind of mods come about. It's still really early, I'll stick with 470 for now since I already have it, and don't have any 4.0 gear anyway.
But I bet we see some clever workarounds for it. I hope, lol. At least it would have been nice if they made the damn things standard across every 570 board so the fans would be common and easy to swap. But no, they look vastly different across makes/models, bleh.
Water cool it
Honestly, I think the issue is that with a big heatpipe/fin setup, it would obstruct the expansion slots' ability to accommodate a dGPU (or so it looks to me based on the X570 boards I've seen). So beyond the fan, liquid cooling may be the only good option?