Thermal pads for PCIe 4.0 nvme drives
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Something like Thermal Grizzly Minus Pad, SST-TP01-M2 or the rando fleabay cut-to-size stuff should do it. My Asus Maximus M.2 metal cover plate came with a slab of green Laird branded thermal pad preapplied. I suspect it's either Laird TFlex 340, 300TG or 550 (or less likely Tflex HD80000)
i am highly dubious about thermal pads or heatsinks that come with the motherbaord. reason is that all NVMe drives got this sticker on top of them. some of them got a layer of something under the sticker. basically looks far too much like insulation to me. and the idea of capping insulation with some dubious thermal pad and a piece of alumimum instead of having it directly expose to air (for cooling), it worries me.
i didnt install the heatsink came with my motherboard. i did however install the aluminium came with my SX8200 PRO, tho i do regrete it as it was more aethetics at the time and I struggle getting it off thus worried about damaging the drive.
i didnt install the heatsink came with my motherboard. i did however install the aluminium came with my SX8200 PRO, tho i do regrete it as it was more aethetics at the time and I struggle getting it off thus worried about damaging the drive.
I stuck my heatsink on, figured it would be better than owt. I took a look at the top of the SSD and it was only a thin label with the make/model and serial stuck onto the modules.
AIUI if I removed the top Samsung label it would invalidate the warranty, so I figured any thermal pad on the chips to wick away any of the heat is better than air cooling or no cooling. If it is 300 series then its thermal conductivity is about 1.2 W/mK versus air at 0.024 W/mK. Samsung Magician reports my drive running around 55 deg C and the hottest I've seen it is low 60s.
If money were no object, I'd water cool it
Some of the recent mobos have integrated heat pipes/fins and properly ducted airflow which includes the M.2 slots I think?
AIUI if I removed the top Samsung label it would invalidate the warranty, so I figured any thermal pad on the chips to wick away any of the heat is better than air cooling or no cooling. If it is 300 series then its thermal conductivity is about 1.2 W/mK versus air at 0.024 W/mK. Samsung Magician reports my drive running around 55 deg C and the hottest I've seen it is low 60s.
If money were no object, I'd water cool it
Some of the recent mobos have integrated heat pipes/fins and properly ducted airflow which includes the M.2 slots I think?Nah, not right. The heat sinks for these NVMe are usually just a flat plate. That doesn’t add any extra surface area or do anything. So it is better to just leave the chips exposed to air and let it cool as opposed to add another layer.
basically each layer you add on you are adding resistance for the heat to be transferred out into air. That’s why by delidding CPU and cool the die directly you get better temps.
same principal here blowing cold air into the chips directly without these flat plate heat sinks and even worse these thermal pads is way better solution. Just don’t look as good.
basically each layer you add on you are adding resistance for the heat to be transferred out into air. That’s why by delidding CPU and cool the die directly you get better temps.
same principal here blowing cold air into the chips directly without these flat plate heat sinks and even worse these thermal pads is way better solution. Just don’t look as good.
True, I saw the Corsair MP600s with their chonker finned heatsinks and thought about evaluating an aftermarket one but didn't follow through. There's plenty on the shop, have you tried or heard good things about any in particular?