pderbidge
Senior Member
You're absolutely right. This whole fan on the chipset thing for example is a bit of a miss for most studio musicians who need an ultra quiet PC. I'm sure that will eventually be addressed. Since my PC is in an adjacent room to my studio I don't have to worry about the noise even though I still build with fairly quiet components (Noctua, Corsair RMX etc...)you might have waited at least until the x570 made it to Main St. More choices, chipset maturity, potential heat dispersion/noise issues resolved, lower cost and all of that
You're being an early adapter
LOL, I'm never accused of that. I still buy used cars, used Homes and I'm still on Windows 7, haha. In fact Windows 7 support going away is the whole reason I decided to do this right now. I'm worried that something like UVI, for example, will have an update and become unusable since I'm not on Win10. It's only a matter of time before more of my plugins drop support and cause issues. I figured, if I'm going to go through the pain of doing fresh install of Windows 10, having to reauthorize all my plugins etc... (anyone who has done this knows what a long and painful process this is) that I might as well tackle a few worthwhile upgrades while I'm at it. I have some big and long term projects coming up and won't have time to do this for quite a while so now is the time for me. I could have gone with a more tried and true platform like the i7 8700k or i9 9900k but since the Ryzens have come out swinging and most of what I'm doing with my system isn't ground breaking, I figured going with the new Ryzen isn't really a big risk. There's nothing I'm doing that the current iteration can't handle. However, if I needed the PC to be in my studio then I would either buy the one and only x570 board without a chipset fan at a whopping $600 (which I don't think even had thunderbolt support, I could be wrong) or honestly just go with an i9 9900k. Can you tell I'm not a fan (no pun intended) of this design? It'll be interesting to see when my MOBO comes if this fan becomes a moot point and I could just be over dramatizing it all in my head right now.