Anyone removed the heatsink from a 990 pro

[chaparral]

Guys am thinking of buying a 4TB 990 pro with fitted heatsink as the old motherboard I have at the moment needs a heatsink on the second m.2
But am hoping to upgrade my motherboard sometime in 2024 and may need to remove the 990 pro stock heatsink

So am wondering how easy it is to remove the stock heatsink on a 990 pro

 

[chaparral]

My 4TB NVMe didn’t and doesn’t have a heat sink on it either and that’s now in the motherboards M2 slot.

The non heatsink 4B 990 pro version costs a lot more (£60 extra) then the heatsink version at the moment

If they were the same price i would have just ordered the non heat sink version and added a cheap aftermarket heatsink to it that i could hopely remove easily at a later date

 

[chaparral]

Many boards have at least one unsinked M.2 slot and some have partially removable sinks.

Just wish i knew which motherboard i was going to buy as i keep changing my mind every day.

I keep changing my mind on if i want to get an AMD or intel cpu less alone which motherboard

 

[chaparral]

I would not get an M.2 with a pre-installed heatsink as removing them can damage the drive. Its easy to get a good heatsink if needed and most boards have them now anyway.

I would have got the non heatsink version, But it costs around £60 extra at the moment
Was going to wait till after christmas to see what the prices did, But was worried they may go up even more.

 

[chaparral]

i was going to post about a similar thing. After Black friday I ended up with both the heatsink and non-heatsink version. I also have a third party heatsink.

I was thinking of using the third party heatsink as I imagine all the fins would do a better job than the Samsiung effort? Whaty do you reckon?

I wouldn’t remove the Samsung heat sink unless you really have to. Then again it may be pretty easy to remove (I don’t yet)
I recommend you just try it first and see if you’re happy with the temps you get with the stock Samsung heat sink.

If I find I need one without a heatsink then I just stick my 4TB 990 pro with heat sink in my PS5 to replace the 2TB 980 pro it has in it at the moment.


This reminds me of the days when I used to buy external hard drives and remove the harddrives to use in my PC