Does Your M.2 NVMe SSD Need a Heatsink

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What benchmark software are you using?

A common problem with these M.2 SSD is the position of the slot on the MB, it's generally under or very near the GPU, so along with the normal heating coming from the M.2 normal usage, it gets even hotter because it's getting more heat from your GPU, specially if you're running some graphically demanding game or software, i already lost a XPG M2 because of this.

No not for games

do cheap $5 heatsink works?

bruh my nvme is at 98 under load and 60-70 idle :(

Hey, does this custom heatsink performs better than the one that came with motherboard?

my samsung ssd 970 evo plus is running at 60c idle, any suggestions?

thanks for this tutorial bro

For the sake of putting a £7.50 heat sink on it i thought it was probably safer to put it on just in case so i did, whether i need it or not i assume i probably dont but it couldnt hurt.

Does the ssd need a heat sink?

really good video, very friendly to those harder of learning - thank you!

A good trick if your PC has a PCIE 3.0 NVMe connector, is to put a PCIe 4.0 NVMe in it. Those drives are designed to run at the faster speeds so when you run them at the slower PCIe 3.0 speed, they don't overheat nearly as much, if at all. And the PCIe 4.0 drives have dropped so much in price that they are close to the same price as the 3.0 versions.

Room Temp is 20c 😁😁😁😁😁😁

what is the softwarre showing the temperature for the nvme ssd please. i am using crucial 1000gb in my dell g15 laptop since one year with my own diy heat sink :D working fine sofar. never checked the temperator though.
video in my channel.

My nvme is 52 degrees on idle... Is that okay ?

are you sure that you use the heatsing right way, i saw that thermal pad must be directly only on controller

The bottom part of the cooler, wont it be too high to prevent me inserting the SSD to its M2 slot...? Did all (majority) of manufactures counted on the possibility that people will be using heatsinks (that have and "under" part)...? Dont i have to be worried that this kind of heatsink (that has an "underpart" on the "underside" of the SSD) will make the ssd too "high" from the motherboard to prevent me inserting the SSD into its M2 slot...?

I run only Samsung drives personally. Just preference for reliability. I run a large heat sink on my main drive which is a 980 pro and no heat sink on my 970 evo which is my secondary. Do you need a heat sink? No. You don’t. Should you use one? I think so. Just to make it last longer. Mine runs up to about 50c with heat sink and 68 with no heat sink.

I have small heatsinks pulled off dead motherboards stick it on the controller