Legacy-ZA People should listen to those that are complaining about the fans on a motherboard, they grew up with motherboards that had them for many many years:



* High Noise (All reviews conveniently left out the dB factor)

* Short Lifespans

* A Struggle for replacement

* Get's clogged full of dust/hairs too easily, stalling the fan (breaks)

* Blows hot air to unwanted areas. (Higher GPU / HDD temps)



This is what has severely put off on upgrading to this generation of Zen CPU's, I don't care for the older boards as they don't have what I need. There is only 1 motherboard, which is the Gigabyte 570 Auros Extreme, but for that price, you can definitely focus on upgrading something else.

At the same time a lot of those points are no longer existent due to advances in technology, Or if they do they arent as critical to those issues as they once were back in those years.- A lot of chipset/VRM fans used to run at the same constant speed regardless of temperature. a lot of stuff is now controlled by PWM or can be PWM.- again fan bearing tech has come a long way but as always it depends on the bearing used some wear out quicker depending on the mounting orientation.- Simple AnswerThere are a lot of parts both original and 3rd party that can be found on ebay. At the same time there are loads of more places that will take a small fee to mill you a chunk of aluminum into a heatsink or if youre lucky you can find a heatsink that fits your measurements either on ebay or Amazon - I bought heatsinks for my 1080Ti off amazon - some fit, some didnt but they were cheap.To this nature, replacement fans fall in to the same category. There will be merchants you can buy them off on ebay. They might be inferior in quality compared to the originals but im sure Asus or whoever will charge you a lot more for a replacement fan if youre out of warranty... Would rather have 3 or 4 inferior fans from ebay than one overpriced fan from Asus if youre out of warranty.isnt really an issue anymore. a lot of cases come with dust filters - if not then there are 3rd party aftermarket companies like demciflex that make filters for your case as well as loads of other PC cases. You can even make your own dust filter with dust filters used for air conditioners on ebay for sooooo cheap - this is what i do and i have done so for years. only really matters if youre a smoker because the tar and other stuff sticks to things and makes it sticky. Thats why if youre a smoker - your clothes will always have that whiff of tobacco.- Is only an issue if your case has Zero airflow. Though it will probably run hotter because its sucking in air from right below the graphics card. but if you got good airflow this is a non issue. Your GPu will most likely run hotter than any chipset anyway. HDDs on the other hand - non issue. If M.2 NvMe SSD though - still a non issue. providing there is a heatsink and some form of airflow its going to be just fine.I worked on a lot of Asus A8N and Nforce 2, Nforce 3 systems back in the day and a lot of them. their chipset fans got clogged or all out stopped working. but the PCs just carried on working and working. Akasa also used to make these chipset cooling fans..And i replaced a fair few broken chipset fans with these ones evn though i didnt need to.