Soldato
Got my NVME drive in a little compartment on my mobo and it's reading as temps going up to 80'c during heavy loads, Is this safe ?
NVME M.2 Safer Operating Temperature ?
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Soldato
It's safe but not ideal, the SSD will thermal throttle down to cool down, but it means a drop in performance. You can get passive and water kits for them, some new Z270 boards have heat sinks built in. Can you not get better airflow to it?
I took the little compartment door off the Sabertooth X99 to completely expose it and it went down to 70'c with fans circulating a good amount of air.
I put it in an M.2 PCI-E adapter card and there's air from 2 x 140mm Corsair ML Pro fans blowing air towards it from the front of the case and it still stays at around 70'c when in game.
I read Corsairs stats on the MP500 that 65'c is the upper most operating temp yet even with really good airflow this thing won't drop below 70'c during a game.
Minus watercooling is there anything else I could possibly do ?
Soldato
I've got mine in a special motherboard compartment that acts as a giant heat sink, but before that I ended up putting a thermo pad (strip might be a better word) on the back and stuck on little RAM heat sinks, it did make a difference but not double digits. Hey, every little helps, right?
I then bought a £25 alphacool kit, which is basically the same thing. Have a google.
I then bought a £25 alphacool kit, which is basically the same thing. Have a google.
I have my Samsung drive in one of these and temps now never go above low 40's.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/aqua...sd-m-key-with-passive-heatsink-cc-000-aq.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/aqua...sd-m-key-with-passive-heatsink-cc-000-aq.html
Soldato
Yeah, they do a water cooled version too!
Yeah I would have got that but the nickel version was out of stock at the time.
I'm kind of glad I didn't though as the passive heatsink is more then enough for the job.