KotaKlan

It is positioned between the CPU and the PCIe x16 slot. The CPU cooler is an AMD Wraith and it pushing down nearly right on top of it. I've already had to reformat it once. I thought that the Win10 Debloater had corrupted the boot before. I was doing tuning and benchmarking to see if I could squeeze some more performance out of it. If I can resurrect it I'm going to try some cooling options on it. Hey LTT can I write a piece for you guys on it?

I've resigned myself to the death of it (f in the comments section) but I dont want to replace it if overheating is a real concern.

Drive doesn't even mount in BIOS.

Hey LTT fam, recently built out a strictly gaming PC after losing frames on my work/gaming unit. Since there wasn't anything I couldn't download on it I chose a cheap M.2 as my boot drive, a KingDian M.2: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B076CJT4ZZ/ref=pe_41291580_475834460_TE_item?th=1 I was able to get good deals on my R5 2600/Asus B450/Gigabyte 5500XT and have been playing with OC'ing them both to 3.85/1850 respectively and thought I had good air flow with a 200mm to 120mm wind tunnel. However, I'm worried now that I cooked the KingDian, as the read/write led on the drive itself is red and not flickering. Do I need to add more cooling, heatsink/fans or reposition it to another location? Has anyone else had overheating issues that have killed a cheap M.2?