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No, that's wrong. A heatsink on an NVMe helps to let it run its top speed longer, or forever. Has nothing to do with issues in your case, those things just get
by onli 6y ago
No, that's wrong. A heatsink on an NVMe helps to let it run its top speed longer, or forever. Has nothing to do with issues in your case, those things just get warm, and before it gets too hot the heat has to be transported away or they will throttle.
- philliphaydon 6y agoNo. NVME's are rated to run at 0-70 degrees. If your case makes your NVME run at > 80+ degrees you should prob fix the airflow in your case as your prob running your CPU/GPU rather hot.
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoI would run some tests though. There are all kinds of vendors / models, who knows what kind of throttling they use?
- adrianN 6y agoHow is the lifetime of a SSD run around 70° vs the same SSD with a slightly bigger heatsink that runs at 60°?
- onli 6y agoYou do not need a case for that! The NVMe heats up on its own. There are a bunch of reviews going into that topic, because it just matters for high end NVMe drives. See for example https://www.computerbase.de/2020-09/samsung-980-pro-ssd-test/2/#abschnitt_temperaturverlauf_und_drosselung https://www.computerbase.de/2020-09/samsung-980-pro-ssd-test... - though the 980 Evo did well without an additional cooler, and here it's indeed depending on the airflow. You seem to assume it's the case that heats up to 80C or more, that's not true and also not necessary for NVMe SSDs to go over their limit. Your CPU/GPU has fans moving the heat away, that's a better position to be in...
- philliphaydon 6y agoI said if your nvme is reaching 80+ degrees then you should fix the airflow in the case. I did not say the case is 80 degrees. Any semi decent airflow is 100% capable of running an nvme without causing any performance issues.
- onli 6y agoAs you saw in the article I linked that's just not true. Those temps are with airflow, and SSDs go over their temp limit.
- philliphaydon 6y agoNope. That article states the the ssd was 'naked' which leads me to believe they removed the sticker off it. Those stickers/labels are use to dissipate heat from the controller, so you, you know, don't need a heatsink. They act as a heatsink. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzSIfxHppPY&t=375s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzSIfxHppPY&t=375s
- onli 6y agoNo! Why would you assume crazy modifications like that? They write "naked", it's naked as in not using the heatsink the mainboard supplies. https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/X570-AORUS-MASTER-rev-11-12#kf https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/X570-AORUS-MASTER-re... shows the cooler they are talking about. You will just have to accept that you've been wrong on this topic. Move on, it happens.
- philliphaydon 6y agoNo. Lol. Cooling anything other than the controller is pointless. You don’t get throttling from nand. I have the gigabyte x570 elite. That nvme cover does nothing. And unless you’re benchmarking the nvme I highly doubt you’re going to heat up the controller enough to notice it. So yup. I agree. You’re wrong. Let’s move on.
- lowmagnet 6y agoSpecifically, a lot of NVMe are right next to GPU placed in PCI slot 1, which is a pretty constant source of heat under load. I installed an EK spreader sandwich on my Samsung NVMe drive, and it made a massive (20° c) difference over stock. It was previously a bare stick with no surface area/thermal sink to pull heat away.
- pdimitar 6y agoWhat's an "EK spreader sandwich"? Can you send a link to yours as well?