First watercooled build - all-black, frosted hardline!

[D.Roberts]

May I ask about the SSD heatsinks

I was reading that

heatsinks if going to be used should only be placed on the controller not the ram its self.
Some thing to do with degradation and that the ram actually works better when at 40c or so but throttling is not caused by the ram getting hot its the controller.

I shall look for the video at some point tomorrow but just wondering if any one else has actually heard about this because I am also doing a build log and just purchased the EK heatsink for my Samsung NVME drive.

Thanks in advance

EDIT

https://youtu.be/KzSIfxHppPY?t=381

 

[LuckyBenski]

May I ask about the SSD heatsinks

I was reading that

heatsinks if going to be used should only be placed on the controller not the ram its self.
Some thing to do with degradation and that the ram actually works better when at 40c or so but throttling is not caused by the ram getting hot its the controller.

I shall look for the video at some point tomorrow but just wondering if any one else has actually heard about this because I am also doing a build log and just purchased the EK heatsink for my Samsung NVME drive.

Thanks in advance

EDIT

https://youtu.be/KzSIfxHppPY?t=381

Yes I saw that yesterday as well, quite interesting. Mechanical hard drives are similar, I think their ideal temperature is about 30° or so. Might be 40.

I'll certainly consider leaving heatsinks off the flash chips, TBF I took that SSD out because the green PCB didn't match the rest of the build. My heatsinks are a bit messy but I had fun making them!