Asus ROG X670E Hero Chipset Temperature

[Orodruin]

I have an Asus ROG X670E Hero motherboard. When I check the chipset temperatures from HWInfo64 and Armory Crate, I get the following result;

Armoury Crate

Chipset 1: 70 Degrees

Chipset 2: 74 Degrees

HWInfo64

Chipset 1: 74 Degrees

Chipset 2: 78 Degrees

Are these temperatures normal?

I want to know the silicon temperature limit and what is the maximum degree that is dangerous.

I can change the thermal pads of the chipsets, but I don't want the card to be out of warranty, so I won't do it for now.

My power profile is set to medium in the power settings.

I thought about choosing the Maximum Power Saving option, but will I encounter USB power issues or similar things if I choose this setting?

[Mister_Benson]

This seems a bit high to me. In comparison in my personal watercooled Lian Li 011D XL, here are my temperatures of the 2 chipsets under load.
It all depends on the ventilation of your case and where your graphics card blows if placed vertically for example.
Don't worry though, the chipsets can climb up to 100 degrees without problem.

[Orodruin]

Are you using the graphics card vertically?
Your chipset temperatures seem very good. You are at very low temperatures.

When I turned the 3 fans on the front of my case to a slightly higher speed, I lowered the chipsets from 74 and 78 degrees to 71 degrees. Then, when I changed the pcie power setting from the power settings to power saving mode, my temperatures dropped to 64-65 degrees.

I still wanted to learn the thermal limit. Because the temperatures seemed high when I saw 78 degrees.

[Shoonay]

I thought that was a pretty normal temp for these chipsets, here are mine, no matter if idling or running Cinebench 23 at full blast, they're pretty consistent @ ~60 & ~80 C:

[Orodruin]

Are you using 1 SSD in your system?
I have 4 SSDs. All slots are full. Could this be why the chipsets are running hotter?

I increased the speed of the fans in the front of my case. Both chipsets dropped to 71 degrees. I changed the PCIe power setting to power saving mode. They dropped from 71 degrees to 64 degrees.

I'm wondering if I should replace the thermal pads on the chipsets with much better thermal pads.

[Shoonay]

I'm using 4 SSD's, they're listed in the bottom right window.

Also using a Sound Blaster AE-9 soundcard and a Mellanon ConnectX 4 card below my GPU, but without those the temps were the same.