Gigabyte's X870E Aorus Extreme AI TOP motherboard is suffering from high chipset temperatures, as suggested by several reports on Reddit. Chipset temperatures north of 100 degrees Celsius led a user to disassemble the motherboard, revealing poor heatsink contact on one of the two daisy-chained Promontory 21 chipsets. Now, if this does end up being a slight misalignment in the assembly phase, only a handful of units should be affected. However, a more deeply rooted issue might be more challenging to address, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
AMD's design for the X870E links two Promontory 21 chipsets in a daisy-chained arrangement, as was the case with the X670E. Flagship 800-series and 600-series motherboards thus reveal two Promontory 21 chipsets upon removing the heatsink. Functionally, both of these chipsets are similar, though they have varying arrangements. Hardware monitoring utilities like HWiNFO thus report two different temperature readings under the chipset section.
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