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soundie2020-09-09 17:39:06
Solid State Drives
soundie, 2020-09-09 17:39:06

How to save an M.2 NVMe SSD from overheating?

I purchased a 256 GB KingSpec M.2 NVMe SSD that heats up well at a peak of up to 70 degrees along with an odious mate. Machinist X99Z v102 board and MSI GeForce 1650 GDDR6 AERO video card to boot. The SSD is planned as a system drive for Windows 10. The only thing I didn’t think about when buying is a 2-slot video card, so it completely covers the NVMe SSD slot on top, which is on the mat. The board is located directly below it. The distance in height from the connected SSD to the heatsink of the video card turned out to be only 6-7 mm (even if it is slightly bent upwards in the PCI-E slot). As I understand it, if you put a radiator, then something like this: GELID Solutions SubZero M.2 SSD, which is only 3 mm high + thermal pad 0.5 or 1 mm and fixing elastic band 1-2 mm? Or is there nothing to save the SSD from overheating? On the other hand, it’s not entirely clear to me where hot air will go from the video card: there are holes on its plastic heatsink on all sides, including the bottom side where the SSD is located (that is, it seems like not so much hot air can go down if it scatters)?

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Maybe there is a chance that the video card will not heat the SSD so much? (in the case, by the way, there are 3 120mm coolers for blowing in front, two for blowing out: behind and on top. The lower power supply is in a separate compartment, the processor doesn’t eat much - 65 W in total and the cooler is good, the vidyuha is 75 W). Perhaps it will blow through?)) I would insert an SSD to PCI-E x4 adapter as they say on the Internet, but there is simply no second such slot in the motherboard (there is a small PCI-E x1).

PS A computer is needed not for games, but for working with photo and video editing + rarely for rendering: photoshop, prime, ffmpeg, 3ds Max + V-Ray and Revit. That is, the nature of the loads will be somewhat different compared to the game. Well, I won’t drive hundreds of gigabytes on SSD, there’s no need.

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lonelymyp, 2020-09-10
@soundie

The air from the cooler of the video card also passes into the gap between the casing and the textolite, blowing a little on the radiator.
So just plug in a suitable size radiator and don't worry.
The radiator is better than copper, something like this: https://aliexpress.ru/item/4000528939677.html
Well, or a malicious option https://aliexpress.ru/item/4001136072620.html , though it has a cooler, but the thickness is scanty
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some vids have a cooler shutdown mode without load, it's a good idea to set it up in the vidyahi utility so that the cooler does not stop, but spins at a minimum.

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Newbie2, 2020-09-09
@Newbie2

https://rynek.ru/products/kontroller-pci-e-30-x4-t... here's a controller for you, plus a couple of radiators from the nearest radio parts store. Stick with thermally conductive adhesive.
ps I took a Plextor M9Pe Y (PCI-E), the temperature never rose above 45 ° C at all.

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