I'm glad you asked the question “9% Vs what?”. Maybe I'm being silly but surely 9% lower temperatures with a heatsink Vs none makes this a very poor heatsink? It sounds like it's just a thin thermal pad to conduct heat away from the chip and into the material rather than to actually remove it into the surrounding environment. It doesn't appear to increase the surface area or anything. But…. GRAPHENE! Wooo!

philehidiot
I'm glad you asked the question “9% Vs what?”. Maybe I'm being silly but surely 9% lower temperatures with a heatsink Vs none makes this a very poor heatsink? It sounds like it's just a thin thermal pad to conduct heat away from the chip and into the material rather than to actually remove it into the surrounding environment. It doesn't appear to increase the surface area or anything. But…. GRAPHENE! Wooo!

Yeah it is more of a heat spreader. That could be handy when the motherboard has an actual heat sink and thermal pad and this acts as a sort of short term buffer and heat soak.

Let's face it, these devices are fast enough that you don't usually hit them hard for more than a matter of seconds before your application or game is in ram and the SSD can cool back off again.

As long is it doesn't add a lot of cost, this looks OK. Unlike that liquid cooler thing that just seemed daft :)

My Gigabyte X399 Aorus extreme have “heatsinks” for the Nvme drives, but really i have little faith in this slab of metal covering the drives, this is actually one of the things i am thinking about changing when i put my hardware into its new home.
CUZ the new home are designed to have a ample direct airflow across the entire motherboard, so this should do more good than just simple convection and whatever level of indirect airflow in a case.
Will have to look into aftermarket Nvme cooling profiles soon.

so how hot do these things actually get and does it really matter? lol

QuorTek
so how hot do these things actually get and does it really matter? lol

Some motherboards only have the one slot - usually situated between the CPU socket and the PCIE x16 Graphics card slot (as mine has)…So it could get pretty toasty. I've always thought it was the most stupid place to put these NVME drives as heat is the killer for any type of storage.

ohmaheid

QuorTek
so how hot do these things actually get and does it really matter? lol

Some motherboards only have the one slot - usually situated between the CPU socket and the PCIE x16 Graphics card slot (as mine has)…So it could get pretty toasty. I've always thought it was the most stupid place to put these NVME drives as heat is the killer for any type of storage.

They should rather put them on the back of the mobs instead then, design wise the mobo manufactore could even have a heat shield build on.

Or they could have them stood erect, so they're in the airflow.

My mobo has two slots and it's not a problem to ensure air flows over it.

The thin copper/graphene layer in the SSD sticker can help shed significant heat - it's adding extra area by way of being substantially larger than the SSD controller, and the thermally conductive part is conductive enough to get the heat spread across the surface. Fins aren't the only way of adding surface area!

Cooling module = foil sticker?

Does anyone have a link to purchase a “riser”? Reasonably priced, of course.