I don´t understand those temps on such a high priced motherboard. I have a gigabyte x570 on a ncase and the chipset at idle is at 44 degrees right now, with the chipset fan OFF and take in mind that there is a gen IV nmve drive over the chipset which should worsen things... I have a radiator on the side of the case with fans blowing into the case at 850 rpm. My chipset only sees temps over 60 degrees while rendering with vray for hours, and since the chipset fan starts spining at 60º temps, it really doesn´t go over 64, I think i remember 66 degrees once and that´s the absolute maximum temps I´ve seen on the chipset.
I don´t know, I haven´t read much about this, but there is way too much difference. either my board doesn´t read temps poperly or theres some problems on that asus cooling.
According to this post, the thermal pads used on both Asus ITX boards are pretty terrible, and sometimes not even installed property. I have considered replacing mine, but it's not really worth it when the chipset fan is inaudible and the temps aren't causing any issues. I'm only running a Gen3 NVME drive, I'd be interested to see if there's a significant temperature difference with a Gen4.
I had a Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite before I downsized to the Ncase and the chipset cooling was much better at around 60 degrees with the fan off. I would have bought the Gigabyte ITX board, except the socket placement meant my C14S wouldn't fit in the Ncase.
Going technical with this question, is there any loss in audio quality if I connect headphones or speakers through my monitor audio jack?
Your monitor takes a digital audio signal and converts that to an analog signal with a built in DAC. In every monitor I've used, the built in DAC has been pretty cheap and poor quality, so I wouldn't recommend it. Your motherboard's built in DAC is almost certainly going to be better.