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Gigabyte's pressurized thermal pads lower SSD temperatures in M.2 slots by up to 12C (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Since the flash chips like being warm, my conclusion was to put a small alluminium sink only on the controller and it works fine.
Might not be enough for PCIe5 but don't cool the f*king flash chips. You're making the disk slower that way.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

On one hand, my mobo (and a lot of others) include a full-length heatsink. On the other hand, the slot is right under my (300 something W) GPU, so I think I'll be fine. It's really funny tho, if their packaging makes my drive unintentionally faster