* * Cryorig announces Frostbit M2 SSD cooler * *

doyll · 22 May 2018 at 13:35

22.05.2018 Taipei, Taiwan -
Ahead of Computex 2018 CRYORIG announces new M.2 cooler Frostbit
This is one sweet looking little cooler! CRYORIG’s Frostbit is not only the industry's first aftermarket M.2 NVMe SSD cooler, but it's dual heatpipes are fully adjustment of the Secondary Heatpipe with large volume Heatsink.
The Frostbit is the first aftermarket M.2 cooler using the heatpipe technology. It’s Dual Stacked Heatpipes work cooperatively to form a massive heat dissipation surface. Thr first 1 mm Ultra-Thin Heatpipe spreads heat from components into the Primary Heat Spreader where the Secondary Heatpipe is then attached to draw heat further into a large volume heatsink of 38 fins. The Frostbit’s heatsink can also be adjusted to fit different PC setups. The Secondary Heatpipe’s angle can be manually tilted to either side to avoid interference with the GPU or a large CPU coolers.

Heatpipe angle can be adjusted and locks when tightened

Frostbit Specs
Dimension . L72 mm x W26.3 mm x H57 mm
Weight . . . 56 g
Heatpipes . 6mm Heatpipe x 1, 1mm Ultra Thin Heatpipe x 1
Fin . . . . . . T = 0.4 mm ; Gap = 2.4 mm
Fin Pcs . . . 19 x 2 = 38 pcs
TDP . . . . . 12 W
They also announced C7 RGB. I'll do another thread for it.

BTVA · 22 May 2018 at 14:57

hmm it's a bit... much

doyll · 22 May 2018 at 15:05

72x26.3x57mm isn't very much.

southernorth · 22 May 2018 at 18:02

Will we need to de-lid our NVMe drives now?

Thekwango · 22 May 2018 at 18:04

southernorth said:
Will we need to de-lid our NVMe drives now?

Only the Intel ones.

AiiR · 22 May 2018 at 18:09

Shame about the colour, silver and copper..

pastymuncher · 22 May 2018 at 19:34

With quite a few M2 drive cooling options available now I just have to ask, how hot do these drives actually get? Surely they can't get much warmer than memory kits? Serious question as I have never used one.

tyler_jrb · 22 May 2018 at 20:49

pastymuncher said:
With quite a few M2 drive cooling options available now I just have to ask, how hot do these drives actually get? Surely they can't get much warmer than memory kits? Serious question as I have never used one.

Not particularly hot. My 512gb gets to around 50c with the EK heatsink on it and quite a warm intake (rad at front).

Like the look of the cooler without the silly copper heat pipes and fins. No real need for those.

pastymuncher · 23 May 2018 at 09:12

50 degrees with a heatsink fitted seems rather hot to me. I had no idea that they got so warm. Most boards seem to have the mounts for these in potentially very toasty places such as under a gpu as well.

orbitalwalsh · 23 May 2018 at 09:57

pastymuncher said:
With quite a few M2 drive cooling options available now I just have to ask, how hot do these drives actually get? Surely they can't get much warmer than memory kits? Serious question as I have never used one.

quoted a 1TB 960 for someone doing Geomapping , so 4000 32MP pictures are stored on the nvme and read and written to the program - actually being used to its max , was under an aorus board heatsink provided and hasn't throttled yet- typical workload is about 4-5 days processing time with 70% of the drive being used at 100%
though does sit at the 70c mark!

looking at that cooler, unless they have used graphic grease or paste between the second rotating heatpipe and main block- wasted heat transfer .

Gee · 23 May 2018 at 17:16

IIRC it's only the controller that gets hot, no?

BongoHunter · 23 May 2018 at 23:54

Themal throttling does impact the perf on these drive a bit, I have a vertical drive mount on my board as well as one under a heatsink and the vertical does seem to perform better - which I suspect is due to airflow.

Bit old now but probably still useful: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Samsung-950-Pro-M-2-Throttling-Analysis-776/#Conclusion

Hotwired · 24 May 2018 at 00:45

doyll said:
TDP . . . . . 12 W

The mighty heat dissipation of 15x15mm "Alphacool GPU Heatsinks" or similar as available in many places might just be in the same league...

GPU heatsinks for memory chips and VRMs sounds highly suitable for other memory chip cooling.

LuckyBenski · 24 May 2018 at 07:36

Hotwired said:
The mighty heat dissipation of 15x15mm "Alphacool GPU Heatsinks" or similar as available in many places might just be in the same league...

GPU heatsinks for memory chips and VRMs sounds highly suitable for other memory chip cooling.

This Micron M600 was thermal throttling at 70° in open air, and getting very slow. I chopped up a Pentium 2 heatsink and put it in the path of an intake fan. Sticks to 40-45 under load now.

I expect any amount of metal will add the thermal mass and surface area needed.

doyll · 25 May 2018 at 14:59

orbitalwalsh said:
quoted a 1TB 960 for someone doing Geomapping , so 4000 32MP pictures are stored on the nvme and read and written to the program - actually being used to its max , was under an aorus board heatsink provided and hasn't throttled yet- typical workload is about 4-5 days processing time with 70% of the drive being used at 100%
though does sit at the 70c mark!

looking at that cooler, unless they have used graphic grease or paste between the second rotating heatpipe and main block- wasted heat transfer .

I was thinking the same thing. if I was getting one I would put TIM on the pipe to base and cap contact area. Can't hurt and probably help.