Nvme gen5 cooling issue

[Solace]

On the asus 790 strix a they use these dumass plastic locks which in theory are nice for naked nvmes but are not capable of locking down after market hestsinks or active coolers. I'm not even sure how to use an old school screw on this board...

Does anyone know the temps between an active gen5 nvme and passive cooling? It is the patriot gen 5 553 2tb thst comes with a fan. I could not find any benchmarks to se if I should just strip the cooler and use the boards paaaive design.

 

[Izerous]

Does anyone know the temps between an active gen5 nvme and passive cooling? It is the patriot gen 5 553 2tb thst comes with a fan. I could not find any benchmarks to se if I should just strip the cooler and use the boards paaaive dedesign.

I know from using two m.2 sata drives as cache that in general these things are easy to thermal throttle without a heatsink at all.

Going from bare to hr-09 heatsinks I could do sustained file transfers of 100s of GB without any throttling.

Passive heatpipe but in general airflow.

 

[Solace]

Nvm, im just dumb and apparently needed to take outnthe bottom thermal pad...

 

[Solace]

I'm starting to think a fan is not required and the stock heatsink with most devices or mobos is sufficient.

I'm testing the stock fan vs no fan with stock heatsink and so far it is a 3-5c diff under load which at 65c i do not believe it is throttling at all. this is done using crystal diskmark 8gb tests. I might prolong it and if all is fine then just take out the nvme of the stock heatsink and use the mobo since the mobo is significantly bigger and would move some heat away from the gpu/core of the drive.

 

[freeagent]

Yup. As long as you move some air through your case you should be ok with mobo sinks. I have a few Thermalright NVME sinks, and their performance is outstanding. Much better than my board sinks, but I like to tinker with my PC and those big sinks come with concessions for me. But I still toss them on now and then... because I like to tinker lol