M.2 NVME SSD Cooling ?

Dicehunter · 17 Oct 2016 at 11:13

So I'm looking into getting my first M.2 NVME SSD today, The mobo I have, X99 Sabertooth, Has an M.2 slot underneath a little cover you unscrew but there's 1 thing I'm concerned about, Temps.

From what I'm seeing there doesn't appear to be much in the way of airflow to this particular section, Would sticking on little metal ram coolers be effective in this situation ?

Stelly · 17 Oct 2016 at 11:22

I dont see why it wouldnt work... I have one in mine without any cooling on it and it works without issues...

Stelly

Dicehunter · 17 Oct 2016 at 12:52

Stelly said:
I dont see why it wouldnt work... I have one in mine without any cooling on it and it works without issues...

Stelly

Thanks for the reply, Do you have much airflow going over yours from other intake fans ?

Stelly · 17 Oct 2016 at 16:08

Dicehunter said:
Thanks for the reply, Do you have much airflow going over yours from other intake fans ?

not too much mate, mine has a couple at the front... I can take some pictures if that would help?

Stelly

Dicehunter · 17 Oct 2016 at 16:10

Stelly said:
not too much mate, mine has a couple at the front... I can take some pictures if that would help?

Stelly

No it's ok but it's appreciated

BattFink · 17 Oct 2016 at 23:10

Personally I wouldn't worry about it, I've only noticed my SM951 throttling if I run continuous benchmarks on it, not experienced any slow down in day to day use

Greebo · 18 Oct 2016 at 17:24

Stelly said:
I dont see why it wouldnt work... I have one in mine without any cooling on it and it works without issues...

Stelly

Been shown in many a review when benchmarking that their transfer speeds slow up a lot when getting hot.

In day to day with just say windows and programs on it, it shouldnt get that hot as you arent thrashing it constantly.

I bought some ram chip heatsinks and sticky thermal pads for mine and keeps it nice and cool.

Ill let you know tonight what temp its at in windows use and benchmark use.

Troop · 18 Oct 2016 at 21:51

I went this way to tame the M.2 temp's(SM951), still hits a max of 55C even with the CPU cooler chosen for its airflow over the M.2

Aberfala · 19 Oct 2016 at 07:14

After sticking heatsinks on mine it now doesn't go above 52C when before it was getting into the 60's during normal use.

FredFlint · 19 Oct 2016 at 07:17

I used some heat transfer tape to stick some heat sinks on mine.

Greebo · 19 Oct 2016 at 19:53

Hmmm what are you guys using to check temps? Mine using Hwinfo64 says 33C just normal in windows and 37C when I am benchmarking it with something

Troop · 19 Oct 2016 at 20:04

Greebo said:
Hmmm what are you guys using to check temps? Mine using Hwinfo64 says 33C just normal in windows and 37C when I am benchmarking it with something

Aida64 running in the background during a game session with the sensor tab open.

Edit to add,

I get the highest temps when gaming, not during bench testing

Pic below is at idle browsing speeds(Z170/6700K/NVMe SM951)

Greebo · 19 Oct 2016 at 20:10

Hwinfo should read the same then. Guess mine is cool at 33 idle and 37 benchmarking.

Aberfala · 19 Oct 2016 at 20:19

Greebo said:
Hmmm what are you guys using to check temps? Mine using Hwinfo64 says 33C just normal in windows and 37C when I am benchmarking it with something

Aida64 via an external USB connected 3 inch LCD.

Greebo · 19 Oct 2016 at 20:46

Tried Aida, same result. Guess my ram heatsinks are doing well

Troop · 19 Oct 2016 at 21:05

Greebo said:
Tried Aida, same result. Guess my ram heatsinks are doing well

Or its running at half speed lol

Greebo · 20 Oct 2016 at 17:14

Troop said:
Or its running at half speed lol

Getting over 2000 read and 1000 write so good enough for me

Egg90 · 21 Oct 2016 at 20:43

Erm, I get 2200 read, 1600 write.
76% full of 512Mb after 8 months use.
HWMonitor doesn't show a temp for it, but the sticker on the drive has turned brown!
Have I got a super speed, super heated drive or something?!

Dicehunter · 21 Oct 2016 at 20:49

Egg90 said:
Erm, I get 2200 read, 1600 write.
76% full of 512Mb after 8 months use.
HWMonitor doesn't show a temp for it, but the sticker on the drive has turned brown!
Have I got a super speed, super heated drive or something?!

If the sticker has turned brown then this is not good as something is starting to burn.

Egg90 · 21 Oct 2016 at 21:41

Well having another look (last time was a couple months ago) the sticker behind is still white. I just remember being a bit shocked, yet the drive is working like a dream. Maybe it's just poor quality paper or something.

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